The list of prestigious culinary universities in Russia will help you decide on the future specialty in the presented field. We offer you a look at the best Russian universities in teaching food production: they are famous throughout the country and the near abroad for their modern training programs, excellent reputation and partnerships with popular world companies. Universities provide their students with exchange study opportunities in developed rich countries.
After receiving a diploma of higher education in a food university in Russia, students are able to fully control the process of cooking food in production - from ordering raw materials to packaging and sending to the warehouse, and also make sure that all goods are of high quality and fresh, and transportation is safe.
In educational institutions, students are taught:
- Develop new recipes and experiment with cooking
- Understand the technical processes and master the basics of nutrition physiology
- Study the economics of the existing enterprise and work with it
- Draw up technological maps and regulations
- Develop and approve regulatory and technological documentation.
The most popular specialty among students is a technologist. Highly qualified technologists are needed in almost every company that deals with nutrition - schools, universities, factories, industries, restaurants and supermarkets. Graduates of food universities usually begin their careers in factories or plants as a master or junior technologist. The most promising and well-paid direction is the technology of canning production: having studied for it, a person can be sure of his relevance in the modern world.
Top food universities in Russia 2024 rankings
| 1 | Bashkir Cooperative Institute (branch) Russian University of Cooperation |
| 2 | Sevastopol State University |
| 3 | Irkutsk Technical University |
| 4 | Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology – MBA named after K. I. Scriabin |
| 5 | Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management |
| 6 | Plekhanov University |
| 7 | Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy |
| 8 | St. Petersburg State Agrarian University |
| 9 | Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University |
| 10 | Novosibirsk State Technical University |
| 11 | Novosibirsk State Agrarian University |
| 12 | Ural State University of Economics |
| 13 | South Ural State University |
| 14 | Omsk State Technical University |
| 15 | Togliatti State University |
| 16 | Samara State Technical University |
| 17 | Don State Technical University |
| 18 | Ufa State Petroleum Technical University |
| 19 | Bashkir State Agrarian University |
| 20 | Siberian Federal University |
| 21 | Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University |
| 22 | Kuban State Agrarian University |
| 23 | Sochi State University |
| 24 | Kuban State Technological University |
| 25 | Izhevsk State Agricultural Academy |
| 26 | Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies |
| 27 | Voronezh State Agrarian University named after Emperor Peter I |
| 28 | Volgograd State Technical University |
| 29 | Volgograd State Agrarian University |
| 30 | Tyumen Industrial University |
| 31 | Altai State Agrarian University |
| 32 | Polzunov Altai State Technical University |
| 33 | Orenburg State University |
| 34 | Kemerovo State University |
| 35 | Astrakhan State Technical University |
| 36 | Kaliningrad State Technical University |
| 37 | North Caucasus Federal University |
| 38 | Belgorod State University |
| 39 | Orel State University named after I. S. Turgenev |
| 40 | Russian University of Cooperation |
| 41 | Siberian University of Consumer Cooperation |
| 42 | Kazan Technological University |
| 43 | Ural State Agrarian University |
| 44 | Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin |
| 45 | Rosdistant |
| 46 | Don State Agrarian University |
| 47 | Saratov State Vavilov Agrarian University |
| 48 | State Agrarian University of the Northern Trans-Urals |
| 49 | Khabarovsk State University of Economics and Law |
| 50 | Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University |
| 51 | Dagestan State Dzhambulatov Agrarian University |
| 52 | Ryazan State Kostychev Agrotechnological University |
| 53 | Stavropol State Agrarian University |
| 54 | Nevinnomyssk State Humanitarian and Technical Institute |
| 55 | Penza State Technological University |
| 56 | Smolensk State Agricultural Academy |
| 57 | Belgorod State Agrarian University named after V. Gorin |
| 58 | Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law |
| 59 | Bryansk Branch of the Plekhanov University |
| 60 | Ivanovo Branch of the Plekhanov University |
| 61 | Krasnodar Branch of the Plekhanov University |
| 62 | Perm Institute (branch) Plekhanov University |
| 63 | Smolensk Branch of the Plekhanov University |
| 64 | Moscow Branch of the Russian International Academy of Tourism in Izmailovo |
| 65 | Vladimir Branch of the Russian University of Cooperation |
| 66 | Izhevsk Branch of the Russian University of Cooperation |
| 67 | Kazan Cooperative Institute of the Russian University of Cooperation |
| 68 | Kamchatka branch of the Russian University of Cooperation |
| 69 | Krasnodar Cooperative Institute (branch) Russian University of Cooperation |
| 70 | Cheboksary Cooperative Institute (branch) Russian University of Cooperation |
| 71 | Nizhnekamsk branch Kazan Innovative University named after V. G. Timiryasov (IEML) |
| 72 | Moscow Regional Cossack Institute of Technologies and Management |
| 73 | Smolensk Regional Cossack Institute of Industrial Technologies and Business |
| 74 | Lipetsk Cossack Institute of Technologies and Management (branch) Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management |
| 75 | Bashkir Institute of Technologies and Management |
| 76 | Pyatigorsk Institute (branch) North Caucasus Federal University |
| 77 | Institute of Food Technologies and Design of the Nizhny Novgorod State University of Engineering and Economics |
| 78 | Bugulma branch Kazan Technological University |
| 79 | Nizhnekamsk Institute of Chemical Technology (branch Kazan Technological University) |
| 80 | Moscow State University of Food Production |
| 81 | Vernadsky Crimean Federal University |
