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Music Schools in Russia

9 researched institutions with a campus here, offering 163 music programs. This is the research done to date, not a complete list of every program.

By federal subject

Cities with several researched institutions

Programs by award and subject in Russia

163 programs

How results are ordered: alphabetically by institution, or by most recently checked when you choose that sort. There is no price ranking, because tuition in different currencies, fee categories and bases (per year, per credit, whole program) is not comparable. A program appears under a subject only through a verified link (dedicated degree, major, concentration or documented pathway). A value we could not verify is shown as “not published”, never as “no”. Items marked Sponsored are paid placements; they never change verification or order. Online programs are not counted as physically located in a state or city, and an institution’s location does not tell you whether it enrols students from your country.

About music education in Russia

How music education is organised

Professional music training in Russia is delivered mainly by state conservatories and academies (for example in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don and Petrozavodsk) that publish their programmes by code in the mandatory 'Sveden' section of their websites. The published programme lists show bakalavriat (bachelor's), spetsialitet (specialist, five years in the examples checked), magistratura (master's), assistentura-stazhirovka (assistantship-internship, two years in the examples checked) and aspirantura (postgraduate research training, three years in the examples checked). Programme levels are named by Russian codes and titles and are not mapped one-to-one to qualifications of other countries.

Source: conservatory.ru/sveden/education/eduop

Qualification structures

Names and levels are local to Russia. Similar names in other countries are not interchangeable.

Bakalavriat and spetsialitet (53.03 / 53.05 codes)
Conservatories list undergraduate bakalavriat programmes (codes 53.03.xx, for example 53.03.02 Muzykalno-instrumentalnoye iskusstvo) next to single-cycle specialist programmes (codes 53.05.xx, for example 53.05.01 Iskusstvo kontsertnogo ispolnitelstva, five years at Petrozavodsk). Source
Magistratura (53.04 codes)
Two-year master's programmes (codes 53.04.xx) in the same fields, for example 53.04.01 music instrumental art and 53.04.04 conducting. Source
Assistentura-stazhirovka (53.09 codes)
A two-year advanced artistic training programme for graduates of higher education in performance, composition, conducting and sound production; it is its own Russian level and is not relabelled here as a master's degree or a doctorate. Source
Aspirantura (5.10 scientific specialties)
Postgraduate research training of three years in the examples checked (Moscow, Petrozavodsk), organised by scientific specialty such as 5.10.1 and 5.10.3. Source

Bodies that matter, and what each one does

Accreditation, validation, education authority and qualification registers are different roles. Do not read a listing by one body as evidence from another.

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Founder (uchreditel) of the state conservatories listed as 'Ministerstvo kultury Rossiyskoy Federatsii' in their Sveden sections

Credits and qualification framework

Programmes are identified by national codes and titles; this directory records the official Russian titles with an English rendering and does not claim equivalence with degrees of other countries.

No degree on this site guarantees admission, funding, employment, a visa or teacher registration, and nothing here is visa or credit-transfer advice.

Languages and admissions

Teaching languages. ru

Admissions and auditions. Conservatories run their own entrance examinations (for example a creative test, a professional test, an interview, and Russian language and literature at Moscow Conservatory); foreign citizens have separate admissions contacts and document-recognition steps. Details are set per programme and per year by each conservatory. Source

Official study information

Country information last reviewed 25 October 2026. 3 sources consulted.