İstanbul Şehir University is a private, non-profit, state-recognized institution founded in 2008 and located in İstanbul, Turkey. The University is financially supported by the Foundation for Sciences and Arts and aims to be one of the leading research institutions of Turkey in the near future. Last year the university accepted 330 undergraduate students, 30 of which were international students from 18 countries, and 58 graduate students in total. This year the university will accept 60 international students from all over the world. The language of instruction is English.

Anglo-American University, founded in 1990, is the oldest private institution of higher education in the Czech Republic. It prides itself on providing a personalized, distinctive university education in English, stemming from best American and British academic traditions that form future leaders, citizens of the world and high profile individuals ready to get globally engaged in world matters.

The International Hellenic University (IHU) is Greece’s first state university where programmes are taught exclusively in English. The IHU is based in Thessaloniki, a modern city that has been a crossroads of cultures and civilizations for over 2300 years and provides a multicultural and cosmopolitan environment, where students from all over the world feel comfortable and welcome.

ParisTech – the Paris Institute of Technology – is one of the collegiate universities in France. Its oldest college was founded in 1741. Nowadays, it gathers 11 of the best French engineering schools, covering nearly the whole spectrum of engineering science, and 1 business school. Currently, there are 18,900 students (31% of whom are foreign students).

The National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), colloquially known as “Vyshka” (“Highie”, also literally watchtower), in Moscow, is a Russian University specializing in social sciences. It was founded in 1992, later it expanded into other social sciences and began educating managers, lawyers and sociologists. In October 2009 the HSE received the status of a National Research University. Currently, there are 19 faculties and schools in the HSE and around 15 000 students.

The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) was founded in 1960 as Peoples’ Friendship University (in Russian: Университет дружбы народов им. Патриса Лумумбы). It was founded in 1960 and its stated objective at the time was to help nations of the Third World, mainly in Asia, Africa and South America. Nowadays it is ranked by the Ministry of Education of Russia as the country’s third-best university. It currently hosts 14 faculties and institutes with about 28000 students, out of which about 5000 are international students from 141 countries.

Ozyegin University (OzU) is a non-profit, state-recognized higher education institution with an international outlook located in Istanbul, Turkey. All academic programs are fully taught in English, all faculty members have received their doctorates from leading North-American universities and the foreign faculty ratio is 25%.

Umeå University is located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. It was founded in 1965 and is Sweden’s fifth oldest university. Today, it has a strong international and multicultural presence with students, teachers and researchers from all over the world. The main campus hosts around 36,700 students.

The University of Gothenburg is the third-oldest Swedish university, it was founded in 1891 as Gothenburg University College. The around 40 Departments and centres conduct research and development in a great range of scientific disciplines, from medicine and biotechnology to marine biology and opinion formation. With its 37,000 students, it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.

The Royal Institute of Technology (Swedish: Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, KTH) is a polytechnic university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden’s first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia’s largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH offers programmes leading to a Master of Architecture, MSc in Engineering, BSc in Engineering, licentiate or doctoral degree.