National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute

MPEI is one of the main technical universities in Russia in the field of Power Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Radio Engineering and Electronics, Informatics and Computer Science, founded in 1930. The area of modern power engineering includes actually power engineering (hydropower, wind power, thermal, nuclear, solar and space power, etc.), electrical equipment, sciences about materials, electronics, classical and applied physics, radio engineering and communication, computer systems, management and economics in power engineering. All these spheres and other directions of the special training are available in MPEI for foreign undergraduate and graduate students. MPEI has been training engineers and scientists for foreign countries since 1946. At present about 900 foreign students from 60 countries are trained at MPEI.

MPEI combines "pure energy" and "non-energy" specialties that provides the deepest range of tasks solved by our graduates. We train qualified specialists for all branches of science, technology and production. Glorious by its traditions, the University has prepared over 200 thousand specialists on power engineering for our country and for more than 85 foreign countries.

Now MPEI is not simply the leading Russian university in the field of power engineering. We unite other Russian technical universities training specialists on power engineering within Power Engineering Educational Consortium. Today MPEI is a modern system of multilevel continuous training of specialists with higher education in technical, economic, and humanitarian fields. Advanced technologies of training introduced in MPEI, orientation to modern methods in educational, scientific and innovative activity guarantee sustainable advantage in labor market for our graduates and assist them with their further professional growth.

Our University has close relations with many foreign universities as friends and partners, with whom we have signed long-term cooperation agreements. We have always been aspired to make the walls of Moscow Power Energy Institute a home for graduated qualified specialists who are responsible for the present and the future of their countries. We are proud of our past, we feel confidence in the present and we look to the future with optimism!

Modern technical university does not exist without active scientific and technology activity. NRU MPEI performs the wide spectrum of the fundamental, research, methodical and applied investigations in many scientific directions. MPEI students actively participate in scientific researches. Lots of their developments were awarded with the medals of Russian Academy of Sciences, the diplomas and medals of Russian Government, RAO “Russian EES”, OAO Mosenergo etc. MPEI performs the education of specialists on the Federal Program “Education of Managers for Organizations of Russian Federation”. There is an Educational Center for Energetic Branch in the field of management in MPEI. This Center is functioning on the basis of the European Union program and is established by the international consortium consisting of the industrial and educational organizations of Greece, Denmark and Ireland. The important point of the pedagogical process is the student’s physical and mental development. Humanitarian component is the integral part of the modern specialist training. MPEI House of Culture and its/ groups (of students and teachers) are well-known both in Moscow and beyond the borders of our country.

The student interests behind the MPEI university’s administration is defended by the student trade-union organization which has the motto "We are always in two steps from you". The top-priority tasks of MPEI Students Trade-Union Committee are to ensure the optimal conditions for the students in getting the high-quality knowledge, to guarantee the students life in the hostel, to offer the physical development and various cultural leisure, to perform the financial support in the complicated living situations.