More than 800 people admitted to Russia’s top universities under quotas for veterans of war in Ukraine

More than 800 people have enrolled in Russia’s top universities under quotas for veterans of the war in Ukraine and their children, according to the independent outlet iStories. The majority of these students scored lower than the minimum score for enrollment on the country’s college aptitude test, the EGE, or didn’t take the exam at all.

A total of 833 people were admitted to the universities and will have their education funded by the state. Roughly a quarter of them enrolled “without entrance examinations,” according to iStories, while 429 of them scored lower than the score that would be required for them to enroll in their chosen departments without the quota program.