Applicants for higher education programs must submit applications:

only in electronic form, except as provided in this paragraph;

only in paper form:

• to exercise the right to apply for admission based on an individual oral interview (if the applicant does not have at least one of the 2019–2021 EIT certificates or scores from the national multi-subject test) in accordance with these Procedures, except for persons whose place of residence is registered (declared) in a particularly dangerous territory;

• to exercise the right to receive a second education at no cost using public funds in accordance with these Procedures;

• if there are discrepancies in the applicant’s data in the Unified State Electronic Database for Admission (surname, first name, patronymic (if applicable), date of birth, gender, citizenship, etc.) and in the relevant document on prior education, as well as in the database of participants in the national multi-subject test—compiled based on the database of participants in the external independent evaluation and the external independent evaluation certificate;

• if a foreign educational document is submitted;

• in cases where documents are submitted by foreign nationals and stateless persons;

• if a document certifying prior education is submitted that was issued before the introduction of photopolymer printing technologies;

• if the application is submitted after the electronic portals have closed;

• to exercise the right to earn additional points as provided for in the eleventh paragraph of subparagraph 1 of paragraph 9 of Section VII of these Rules;

if it is not possible to register for an online account or submit an application electronically for other reasons, as confirmed by a certificate from the admissions committee of the higher education institution.

Applicants referred to in the fourth paragraph of this section may submit their applications electronically, followed by the submission of documents confirming their eligibility for admission based on an individual oral interview, which must be submitted during the application period in accordance with these Procedures.

To exercise the right to admission based on the results of an individual oral interview on competitive subjects at a higher education institution and/or under Quota 1 (provided the applicant has at least one EIT certificate), the applicant must, prior to submitting the application electronically, personally submit the original(s) of the document(s) confirming the applicant’s eligibility for special conditions of participation in the competitive selection process, to the admissions committee of one of the selected higher education institutions.

Applicants may submit up to five applications for state- and regionally-funded programs under fixed-quota and open-competition programs, and up to twenty applications for non-state-funded programs.