MBBS admission consultancy for Russia: what we do, step by step

Fees

What is free, and how the fees are paid

Free of charge

• Counselling, including matching your NEET score to universities and the shortlist, online or in person.
• A written fee quote from the university, wherever a university publishes no fee.
• Help with the Russian student visa.

What you pay, and to whom

Pay each year’s fee directly to the university, against its own contract or invoice, and never put a lump sum into an agent’s account. RUDN (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow) shows how this works. Its handbook says a new student gets a payment referral from RUDN’s Commercial Department when the tuition contract is signed, and pays by the deadlines set in that contract. In a note of 13 April 2022, RUDN recommended paying only against an invoice that shows its current bank details.

Do not pay all six years upfront for a discount. Ask the university itself whether it bills year by year and whether any multi-year discount exists.

The fee estimates on our Russia page cover tuition, hostel and medical insurance for the six years. Flights, food, visa renewals and winter clothing are extra, and so are the one-time charges on admission and arrival, which the Russia page lists separately from the fee tables.

Before you pay any fee, we give you a written, itemised cost sheet covering every expense. Check each line against the university’s contract.

Checklist

How to check any MBBS consultant before you pay

Run these checks on every consultant you speak to, including us. Each one links to the official source. Sources checked 18 October 2026.

1. 01Get the letter and the course details in writing

   Ask the consultant for the university’s authorisation letter, the programme’s WDOMS record, and its course length and internship arrangement, all on paper. NMC’s page for students going abroad advises getting the fee structure and the course details (what is taught, how long it lasts, and the internship) directly from the university concerned. Then compare what the university sends you with what the consultant told you.

2. 02Check the degree, not a list

   On the same page, NMC says it “does not endorse any list of Foreign Medical Institutions/ Universities for MBBS or equivalent course”. The list people remember belonged to the erstwhile Medical Council of India and was built from information sent by Indian embassies and high commissions. So when a consultant calls a university “NMC approved”, ask which document they mean. What NMC does set is a test for your degree, in regulation 4 of the Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations, 2021 (FMGL-2021):

   • a course of at least 54 months
   • an internship of at least 12 months at the same foreign institution
   • teaching in English
   • the mandatory subjects listed in Schedule-I
   • registration with the body that licenses doctors in the country that awarded the degree, at par with that country's own citizens
   • back in India, a supervised internship of at least 12 months, and passing the National Exit Test (NExT) or another test NMC mandates (NExT has not started, so for now that test is FMGE)

   Schedule-I adds that the whole course, training and internship must be done at the same institution outside India, with no part in India or in a third country, and finished within ten years of joining. It also asks for the internship “in addition to” the course, and NMC’s FAQ on the regulations (Q17) treats it as a phase that comes after the course. So a programme sold as “5 years including internship” leaves at most 48 months of study once the 12-month internship is taken out, short of the 54 months the rule asks for.

3. 03Look up the WDOMS record yourself

   Search the university on the World Directory of Medical Schools. The directory itself says a listing “does not denote recognition, accreditation, or endorsement” by it or by the two organisations that run it, the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) and FAIMER (WDOMS, About). The WHO published the earlier directory from 1953 to record where doctors were educated. In August 2007 it agreed to transfer the directory to the University of Copenhagen, and it became the Avicenna Directory, managed by WFME. If a consultant says “WHO approved”, ask to see the WHO document.

4. 04Search NMC's alerts for the university's name

   NMC names institutions when it warns students. Its alert of 1 April 2026, issued about admissions in Uzbekistan, names Bukhara State Medical Institute, Samarkand State Medical University, Tashkent State Medical University, and TIT Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore (an offshore campus of Tashkent State Medical University’s Termez branch). Its alert of 21 July 2025 tells students to avoid three institutions in Belize and the Chirchik branch of Tashkent State Medical University. Both tell students to consult the Indian Embassy of the country concerned for updates on recognition or blacklisting. We list the NMC notices since 2021 that name a foreign university in one place.

5. 05Walk away from a guaranteed seat

   The same April 2026 alert says that no institution can guarantee admission outside the prescribed process, “including qualification in the NEET examination”, and tells students not to rely on unauthorised or unverified agents or intermediaries. A seat promised without a qualifying NEET result is a reason to stop.

6. 06Pay the university, and only after checking it

   The April 2026 alert asks students and parents to make sure the institution is duly recognised and compliant with the regulations before committing or paying any fees. Then pay tuition to the university against its own invoice, keep the receipt, and get the refund rule in writing.

7. 07Report what looks wrong

   If anyone offers you an admission that looks illegal or misleading, report the institution or the person to NMC, as its April 2026 alert asks. When you are unsure, check with NMC or the Indian mission in that country.