The Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, or as it should be called now, NRNU "MEPhI" is the first and only one of its kind. Established as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Ammunition in 1942, it soon became the leading educational institution training specialists in the defense industry. The “core” direction of the university’s work has been and remains nuclear energy. MEPhI has ten branches in science cities and former closed cities; it includes thirteen institutes and twelve faculties. With the support of its partner "Intel", since 1997, NRNU MEPhI has been opening its doors to gifted schoolchildren by organizing the "Junior" youth competition, included in the structure of the international competition Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The university cooperates with several schools, networking has been established, and online competitions are held. Some educational projects are carried out jointly with the Rosatom corporation. Over its history, the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute has trained six Nobel laureates.
Until the 1990s, this university, worthy in all respects, trained personnel for nuclear research; now the work is carried out under the auspices of Rosatom. The faculties of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Chemical Physics and others perform well. There are enthusiastic reviews about MEPhI teachers, and no less good reviews about the powerful theoretical and technical training of students.
The road to scientists
The Institute of Atomic Energy is located in Obninsk. For more than fifty years, he has trained many thousands of specialists for this industry both in Russia and abroad. The range of areas of study is very wide: atomic physics, cybernetics, mathematical modeling, high-performance computing, materials science, management, finance and so on. Other branches of MEPhI are no less interesting.
Software Engineering
Reviews about the Faculty of Cybersecurity are also quite numerous, which will greatly help applicants who have chosen the field of computer technology, as well as programming and, of course, information security. It must be admitted that this faculty, judging by the reviews, is not superior to similar faculties of other universities, although the MEPhI brand itself plays an attractive role.
The faculty has interesting specializations, including the “K” sector, which is responsible for training specialists in control systems for critical facilities. There are four areas in this sector, which are dealt with at departments 28, 17, 33, 68 and 22. One of the most interesting specializations at MEPhI is software engineering. Reviews about the 22nd department, which produces bachelors of this specialty, are generally good.
IFEB
Since 2006, there has been an Institute for Financial and Economic Security, created by Rosfinmonitoring to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Training of specialists in primary education takes place on the basis of MEPhI.
Economic security (reviews about this specialty are few for many reasons) requires students not only to have extensive and stable basic knowledge. They are practiced in the central office and MRU, in the national financial intelligence departments of some EAR countries.
MEPhI manages to take into account the specifics and features of the interaction of all specialties of this unit, while providing a unified standard for training. Graduates work in Rosfinmonitoring and the FSB of Russia, as well as in the prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee, in the staff of leading banks, in state corporations and IT companies.
IMO
A number of federal ministries initiated the creation of the Institute of International Relations in 1999 on the basis of MEPhI. International relations, reviews, are beaten only by MGIMO (and then, they say, according to established tradition) - a popular direction. Graduates are engaged in the political and social aspects of international cooperation in science, engineering and technology, analysis of the activities of international associations and organizations, support of international projects in high technology, competitive and financial and economic analysis of international markets for high-tech products.
Faculty of Humanities
It existed until 2009, after which it was renamed the Faculty of Management and Economics of High Technologies MEPhI. Economics, reviews of which are quite varied, is the main subject in the training of a specialist in international relations, since he will be involved in accounting, financial management, jurisprudence, economic and financial security.
At MEPhI, at the faculty "U", according to student reviews, international affairs specialists are prepared to a higher quality than at all other universities, with the exception of MGIMO. You can look at statistics, the spread of acts of cooperation, ratings. MEPhI is ahead of even the above-mentioned university in many respects. It’s a big plus that few people look at the ratings, and it’s more realistic to study International Relations at MEPhI than at MGIMO, even on a budgetary basis.
Correspondence school
MEPhI, about which there are so many reviews, is growing in talented students due to the existence of a correspondence school for more than forty years, where schoolchildren from the sixth to the eleventh grade receive distance learning and study courses in physics, mathematics, chemistry and other subjects, and now they are preparing for the Unified State Exam.
Manuals and assignments are sent by parcel post, then teachers communicate with children by mail - electronic or paper, the student chooses. Thus, any student can use the services of the Correspondence School, no matter where he lives.
Dormitory and hotel
There is no better student shelter than MEPhI. The hostel, reviews of which have filled student forums, is located a quarter of an hour on foot from the place of study - very convenient. Two 24-story towers - two buildings, plus two 5-story ones. 3,000 people can live in the high-rise buildings, and another 500 in the high-rise buildings. On the ground floors there are buffets and cookeries, gyms, and payphones. Throughout the territory - Internet, radio and television, security and video surveillance, automated fire protection. There is a lot to love about the MEPhI hostel; they write rave reviews. They live comfortably here. Therefore, time is not wasted on everyday problems, it is devoted to study.
The dormitories are apartment-type, where each apartment is equipped with all kinds of furniture for storing things, relaxing, working, there are refrigerators and electric stoves in the kitchens, spacious bathrooms and toilets, glazed loggias. On the territory of this entire complex, for the convenience of students, there are cash desks, a passport office, and an accounting department.
75 years ago during the Great Patriotic War, on November 23, 1942, the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR was signed on the formation of the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Ammunition (MMIB), known since 1945 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute (MMI). The name Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) was given in 1953.
War years
The history of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI began 75 years ago, when on November 23, 1942, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, on the initiative of Deputy Chairman of the State Defense Committee L.P. Beria and People's Commissar of Ammunition B.L. Vannikova adopted a resolution on the organization of the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Ammunition (MMIB). Already on January 1, 1943, the first student classes began in the building on Myasnitskaya Street (then Kirova Street) in the famous Yushkov House.
Geographically, the institute was located on three Moscow sites - workshops, educational and administrative premises, departments were located separately from each other, which created certain inconveniences. At that time, the institute had only three faculties: 1) tubes and fuses; 2) shells, mines, 3) aerial bombs; cartridges and cartridges.
As we see, the faculties of MMIB, and the departments too, had little in common with the current composition of the faculties and departments of NRNU MEPhI and had nothing to do with the nuclear industry, which, by the way, did not exist then.
By the way, the first graduation of MMIB specialists took place already in 1944, and on this occasion at the state dacha of B.L. A reception was organized for Vannikov.
On January 16, 1945, the first reorganization took place at the institute; the institute began to be called the Moscow Mechanical Institute (MMI). The faculties created two years ago were abolished and three new ones were organized in their place: mechanical-technological, design and precision mechanics.
"Atomic Project"
The fate of MMI was significantly influenced by the Special Committee created on August 20, 1945 under the Council of People's Commissars, which was entrusted with coordinating all work on the use of intra-atomic energy of uranium, headed by Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars L.P. Beria. And at the same time, to directly manage the work of all organizations for the use of uranium energy, the First Main Directorate was created, the head of which was the outstanding industrial organizer and talented engineer, Colonel General B.L. Vannikov. On August 30, 1945, the Moscow Mechanical Institute was transferred to the jurisdiction of this department. And just two weeks later, in the protocol No. 4 of the meeting of the Special Committee signed by Beria, the wording “On the organization of a faculty for the training of physics engineers at the Moscow Mechanical Institute” appeared.
On September 20, 1945, Resolution No. 2386627ss of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, signed by Stalin, “On the organization of the engineering and physics faculty at the Moscow Mechanical Institute” was issued. This was the starting point for the creation of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.
The Faculty of Precision Mechanics was reorganized into the Faculty of Engineering and Physics for the training of nuclear industry specialists. From the very beginning, during the creation of this faculty, increased government attention was paid to it. The student population was increased to seven hundred people, new departments for training physics engineers were created: the Department of Atomic Physics, the Department of Theoretical Physics, the Department of Nuclear Physics, the Department of Applied Nuclear Physics and the Department of Precision Mechanics.
On January 26, 1946, by order of the institute, the outstanding scientist, full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Alexander Ilyich Leypunsky was appointed dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physics.
In 1946, the Department of Metal Physics, the Department of Special Mathematics, and the Department of Special Chemistry and Metallurgy appeared at MMI. According to the creators of this faculty, future graduates were to have a university level of education in physics and mathematics, and, in addition, have engineering skills. Essentially, the founding fathers intended to train a new type of specialist, a new generation of specialists who have a high level of knowledge and are capable of creating new technology.
First Teachers
A number of departments from other institutes were transferred to the Moscow Mechanical Institute, in particular from Moscow State University, Moscow Higher Technical School named after. E. Bauman, Moscow Power Engineering Institute. For example, one of the MEPhI rectors, Viktor Mikhailovich Kolobashkin, completed his first year at Moscow Higher Technical University, and then he and the whole group were transferred to MMI. Among the teachers then were unique specialists who were the flower of Soviet science in the post-war years, future Nobel Prize winners I. E. Tamm, A. D. Sakharov, N. N. Semenov, I. M. Frank, P. A. Cherenkov, N. G. Basov, famous scientists, academicians I.V. Kurchatov, I.V. Obreimov, Ya. B. Zeldovich, I. Ya. Pomeranchuk, M. A. Leontovich, A. N. Tikhonov, A. B. Migdal, G. S. Landsberg, B. P. Zhukov, S. A. Khristianovich, I. K. Kikoin. Many of them can be seen in the portrait gallery in the main building.
MEPhI
Over time, the process of gradual transfer of mechanical specialties to other institutes and expansion of engineering and physics specialties began. And in 1953, the institute acquired the current name MEPhI, all faculties of which became largely focused on training specialists in the nuclear energy and defense industries.
In 1952, according to the Decree of the USSR Government, the first four branches of MEPhI were created in closed cities (now Ozersk, Novouralsk, Lesnoy in the Urals and Sarov) for local training. Subsequently, MEPhI branches were created in Obninsk, Snezhinsk and Trekhgorny. MEPhI trained personnel for the nuclear industry in a wide range of specializations, eventually becoming a truly elite university and gaining worldwide fame.
Nuclear University
A new stage in the development of the university began in 2008, when MEPhI became one of the first two national research universities and was renamed the National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”.
Today, the university firmly holds a leadership position in training specialists of the highest level, combining the principles of synthesis of education and scientific research laid down 75 years ago.
National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" is a leading Russian university in the field of training engineers, experts, analysts, managers for the nuclear industry, as well as for the IT sector and many other high-tech sectors of the economy.
More than 7,000 students study at NRNU MEPhI, of which 6,550 are full-time students. 44.61% of them study in the direction of “Nuclear Energy and Technology”, 17.73% - “Economics and Management”, 11.37% - “Informatics and Computer Science”, 10.38% - “Information Security”, 5 .27% - “Mathematics and Mechanics”, 3.49% - “Physics and Astronomy”. About 7% of students study in the areas of “Political Sciences and Regional Studies”, “Management in Technical Systems”, “Material Technologies”, “Jurisprudence”, “Mechanical Engineering”, “Photonics, Instrument Engineering, Optical and Biotechnical Systems and Technologies”, “Electronics, radio engineering and communication systems", "Psychological sciences".
NRNU MEPhI is a recognized leader in such advanced areas as:
- research in the field of nuclear physics, laser physics, plasma physics;
- Microwave nanoelectronics;
- nanobiotechnologies, biomedical technologies;
The university is also developing new directions in the field of space research and controlled thermonuclear fusion.
Features of studying at MEPhI:
- programs developed with a focus on the professions of the future and priority scientific areas,
- cooperation of the university with leading international companies and research centers,
- own modern experimental facilities and centers,
- internships abroad, participation in international projects, Mega-science experiments. Among them are ATLAS, ALICE, CMS at CERN; FAIR, XFEL in DESY (Germany); ITER (France); ICECUBE, PAMELA (Italy); STAR and PHENIX (USA); T2K (Japan).
- modular training, individual approach, interdisciplinary approach,
- more than 162,000 square meters are allocated for educational and laboratory buildings, about 100,000 for dormitories,
- 2,718 teachers, 72.24% of them have academic titles and degrees.
74.1% of students study on a budget, 25.9% study on a paid basis. The average cost of education per year is 241,764 rubles, which is significantly higher than the average cost of education at other universities in the country.
85% of MEPhI graduates find work in the first year after graduation. Bachelors, specialists and masters after graduation receive an average of 58,000 per month (cf. the average salary of graduates of other universities in the Russian Federation is 30,658 rubles per month).
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