Moscow State University of Transportation

Moscow State University of Transportation
founding	1896
place	Moscow
country	Russia
Students	over 118,000
Website	www.miit.ru

The MIIT main building

The Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (short MIIT , Russian Московский государственный университет путей сообщения (МГУПС (МИИТ)) , transcription Moskovsky gossudarstwenny uniwersitet putjei soobschtschenija ) since 1896 provides engineers of the transport sector from added meanwhile Economic and jurisprudence . With over 118,000 students, it is the largest university in Russia .

The abbreviation MIIT stands for one of the earlier names Moskowski institut inschenjerow transporta ( Московский институт инженеров транспорта ).

7 institutes and 4 faculties as well as a computer center, language center, library, dormitories, sports facilities, kindergarten and hospital are located in a total of 54 buildings on an area of ​​224.5 km² .

With over 2.5 million books, the MIIT university library is one of the largest in Moscow .

history

• 1896: Establishment of the Moscow engineering school by decree of Tsar Nicholas II.
• 1993: Status of the Technical University

Teaching

There are 52 courses of study at the university, 17 of them with a bachelor's degree and 13 with a master’s degree .

Partner universities and cooperation

MIIT cooperates with 54 universities and companies in 28 countries.

• Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
• Ruhr-University Bochum
• Technical University Dresden
• University of Applied Sciences Erfurt
• Mittweida University

There is a German-Russian institute at MIIT, which houses, among other things, ConRuhr Moscow, the Moscow coordination office of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR) for international university cooperation. This office acts as a contact and information exchange.

Well-known graduates

• Igor Guberman ( Игорь Миронович Губерман ), writer and poet
• Alexei Kravtsov ( Алексей Кравцов ), General Director of the large Russian IT company Kraftway
• Wiktor Wekselberg ( Виктор Феликсович Вексельберг ) (* 1957), Russian businessman and oligarch
• Bidsina Ivanishvili ( Борис Иванишвили ) (* 1956), Georgian-French entrepreneur and politician, founder of the Georgian opposition party Georgian Dream, oligarch
• Rustam Tariko ( Рустам Тарико ) (* 1961), Russian businessman and oligarch

Web links

Commons : Moscow State Transport University  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Russian)
• ConRuhr Moscow website (Russian)

Coordinates: 55 ° 47 ′ 16 ″  N , 37 ° 36 ′ 29 ″  E