MEPhI is a research and educational center with honorable traditions and a clear vision of the future. The world’s best technology experts excel in advancing applied sciences, boost economic outputs in various fields, and support the growth of industry and businesses.
MEPhI is a leading Russian University that augments its positions on the global educational scene. MEPhI is proud of ambitious and skilled experts in science and engineering who have graduated from the University since its establishment in 1942. Six Nobel laureates contributed to educational process and research at MEPhI. And now, relying on extensive experience, university is creating a future with a new generation of explorers and inventors.
Walking around campus and meeting students from Europe and Asia, as well as, international scholars from MIT and Berkeley, one you would be surprised to find out that MEPhI was a closed, strategic facility until the 2000’s. But, that has changed significantly.

MEPhI generates scientific knowledge, disseminates and preserves it aiming to address global challenges of the XXI century; as well as, to provide innovative transformations in Russia accompanying development of country’s competitiveness in global energy and non-energy high-tech markets.
MEPhI faculty and students actively solve complex issues in high-priority fields. These issues range from nuclear energy to nanotechnology, medicine to ecology, IT to innovation management. Newly established Strategic Academic Units (StrAUs) center the traditional MEPhI departments on pertinent and strategically meaningful concepts in order to accelerate discoveries that yield significant scientific impacts. MEPhI exports branch campuses, attracts students and researchers and collaborates with research partners.
University invites talented people to apply for one of interdisciplinary study programs in Russian and English, join the team as a professor or partner, or simply be a supporter.
Everything in MEPhI is based on the principles of openness, internationalism, and innovation.