World Report, and in 2021 it was ranked #1,804 by Center for World University Rankings. Far Eastern Federal University is accredited and funded by the Russian Ministry of Education. FEFU has joint academic departments with research institutes in natural sciences accredited by the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Far East. In 1999, FEFU won a competition among 90 Russian Universities for a one-million US dollar grant from the American Civil Research and Development Fund. Utilizing Internet videoconference technology, FEFU pioneered several educational programs: Russian and Japanese languages, Russian-American joint credit courses in law, and international dual degree programs in business. International relations FEFU developed relations with Pacific Rim countries. The university has 40+ branches in Russia, the United States, Japan, China, and South Korea. It developed more than 80 partnership projects, including 64 academic exchange programs, with universities at the United States, Japan, China, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Thailand, India, and Vietnam. International programs FEFU offers international programs combining Internet and face-to-face modes of learning. However, with the war Russia launched against Ukraine in 2022, many of these partnerships are now paused or closed. A dual degree program with University of Maryland University College (UMUC), USA, started in 1991 as a classical face-to-face program. In 1999 it became one of the first online dual degree programs in Russia. By October 2003, 265 FEFU students graduated from UMUC with bachelor's degrees in Business and Management, along with their Russian university degrees. Since 1999, UMUC accepts 90 FEFU credits of 120 credits total, required for the undergraduate degree, and offers ten online courses for the remaining 30 credits. Another dual degree program with University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia, started in 2001. USQ participates in a number of such programs, but FENU was its first Russian university affiliate. Internet videoconference partnership with Waseda University (WU), Tokyo, Japan, started in 2000, and was later extended to a 2002–2005 project. Partner institutions Australia University of Southern Queensland Malaysia Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman United States University of Maryland Global Campus Notable alumni Leonid Korotkov Ilya Lagutenko Aned Y. Muñiz Gracia Mikhail Kim See also Japan Campus of Foreign Universities References External links Far Eastern Federal University Study in Russia Far Eastern Federal University Far Eastern Federal University Russian Language Program (in English and several other languages) Far Eastern Federal University Research and Education Center for Marine Biota