{"id":131382,"date":"2025-03-24T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/131382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"belarusian-universities-to-cut-admissions-in-2025-academic-year-official","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/131382\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian universities to cut admissions in 2025 academic year \u2013 official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bgu_fb.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bgu_fb.jpg 720w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bgu_fb-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bgu_fb-178x118.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Belarusian State University&#039;s Facebook page)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 24, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Belarusian universities plan to enroll 48,000 students in the 2025 academic year with tuition costs waived for 31,800 of them, the state-run <em>Nasta\u016dnickaja Hazieta<\/em> reports, citing education ministry&#8217;s official Siarhiej Pi\u0161\u010do\u016d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tuition fee waiver will cover 400 more students in medicine, education and engineering, as these majors are in high demand, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-two Belarusian universities enrolled about 33,000 freshmen with tuition fee waivers in 2024, Alaksandar Bachanovi\u010d of the education ministry said last August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, later Education Minister Andrej Ivaniec admitted that about 500 spots in agriculture and engineering majors remained vacant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Society<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Society<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Mahilo\u016d State University to train \u201cmilitary-patriotic\u201d PE teachers<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">February 16, Pozirk. Belarusian universities will offer several new majors in the 2025-2026 academic year, Education Minister Andrej Ivaniec has told STV in an interview. Belarusian State University will have the Intelligent Electronics major for future micro- and nanoelectronics professionals. &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/126587\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, Pozirk. Belarusian universities plan to enroll 48,000 students in the 2025 academic year with tuition costs waived for 31,800 of them, the state-run Nasta\u016dnickaja Hazieta reports, citing education ministry&#8217;s official Siarhiej Pi\u0161\u010do\u016d. 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