Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT) is the oldest institution of higher technical education in Russia, founded in 1896. Today, MIIT is the largest scientific and academic complex in Russia, the all-Russian leader in training and retraining specialists and scientific personnel for transport and transport construction. The overall number of students exceeded 118 thousand, including those enrolled in higher professional education programs – about 45 thousand people and programs of secondary professional education – over 19 thousand people. There are four academies in the University (Academy of Integrated Safety and Security, Academy of Transport Medicine, Russian Academy of Railway Engineering, and Russian Open Transport Academy), eight Institutes (Humanitarian Institute, Institute of International Transport Communications, Institute of Track, Construction and Structures, Russian-German Institute, Institute of Transport Engineering and Management Systems, Institute of Management and Information Technologies, Institute of Economics and Finance, Institute of Legal Studies), Research Institute of Transport and Transport Construction, four Departments (Evening department, Department of pre-University education, Department of academic staff professional development, Department of scientific personnel), Moscow College of Railway Transport, Gymnasium, Medical College.
The University is the main center of the transport industry in the field of continuing education. MIIT carries out 480 continuing professional education programs. Up to 50 thousand executives, experts, and workers in transport, transport construction, and other areas of the national economy undergo retraining and participate in professional development programs in MIIT and its branches. MIIT is one of six Russian establishments of higher education licensed to carry out the Master of Business Administration (МВА) program. The University publishes "World of Transport" and "Transport Science and Technology" scientific journals.
Major MIIT's domestic and international partners are as follows: "Russian Railways," "Transstroy" corporation, Moscow Metro, Moscow Government, Russian State Duma Committees for transport and education, Russian Trade and Industry Chamber, German, Spanish, Finnish, and French Railways, "Alstom," Bombardier" and "Siemens." The University is a permanent member of major international projects, including those of the EC. The University was awarded the TEMPUS IV European program's grant within the "Master of infrastructure and operation of high-speed railway transport in Russia and the Ukraine" project.
The University is authorized to test foreign citizens in their knowledge of Russian as a foreign language. The University's academic complex boasts a modern educational and scientific, informational base, unique training centers (including stand-alone multimodal training center), and the supercomputer. The science and research library of the University is one of the biggest university libraries in Russia. The library stock exceeds 4.4 million books. The e-catalog has over 300 thousand titles, including more than 50 thousand text and study books. MIIT won the national public Russian transport industry prize "Golden Chariot" in the "Leader of Russian transport science and education" nomination. The University became one of the winners of all Russian competition of the higher educational institutions introducing innovative training programs.
The University houses Sports Centre which meets all modern requirements and has cutting edge sports equipment and accessories. The Sports Centre includes a swimming pool, a multifunctional indoor track, and 11 sports halls. There are also sports halls in MIIT dorms. The University has all the prerequisites for proper and diverse recreational activities. The well-known MIIT Recreation Centre provides its facilities for 24 performance groups: the winners and runners-up of international, all Russian, inter-university, and city events, competitions, and festivals.
MIIT is the leading transport university, a significant center of education, science and culture, keeping and developing bicentennial traditions and basic values of the national transport education, fundamental and applied sciences, which, based on the best cutting edge achievements, innovative technologies and management principles, carries out educational, scientific, social and cultural activities to develop and realize human, scientific and production potential of the railway transport of the Russian Federation. MIIT believes that its mission is to become a system integrator of the transport education, science, and innovative activities, the testing ground for developing and introducing new state educational standards and innovative teaching methods, matching new technological challenges, providing practical realization of the strategy and program of technical, technological, social and economic development of the single transport complex of the Russian Federation.
We are glad to greet you at the website of a significant Russian education establishment – Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT)! We invite you to take a virtual tour around the University, to get a glimpse of its history and current life, to obtain some information about its academic and scholarly activities, to visit its training centers, facilities, and laboratories, to have a look at the architectural complex and the Chapel, research library, Recreation, and Sports centers.
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