On December 4 – 6, 2018 an international external review of two clusters of educational programmes «Biology» (06.03.01, 06.04.01), «Sociology» (39.03.01, 39.04.01), and «Sociological Sciences» (39.06.01) delivered by National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod was held.

On November 20 – 22, 2018 an external review of two clusters of the educational programmes «Philology» (45.04.01), «Physics» (03.04.02) delivered by Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University was held.