Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI is a public technical university in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1942 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions, but was soon renamed the Moscow Mechanical Institute. Its original mission was to train skilled personnel for the Soviet military and Soviet atomic bomb project. It was renamed the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1953, which was its name until 2009.
By the Order of the Government of Russia on April 8, 2009 on behalf of Russian President's Decree of October 7, 2008 "On the pilot project launching on creating National Research Universities" MEPhI was granted this new status. The university was reorganized. The aim of the university existence is now preparing the specialists by giving them higher professional, post-graduation professional, secondary professional and additional professional education, as well as educational and scientific activities.
In 2022, QS World University rankings rated the university #308 in the world, World University Rankings by Times Higher Education ranked the university #401 in the world, and in 2023 U.S. News & World Report rated the university #483 in the world.
Academics
Today, MEPhI has nine main departments :- Institute of Nuclear Physics and Engineering
- Institute for Laser and Plasma Technologies
- Institute of Engineering Physics for Biomedicine
- Institute of Nanoengineering in Electronics, Spintronics and Photonics
- Institute of Cyber Intelligence Systems
- Institute of Financial and Economic Security
- Institute of International Relations
- Faculty of Physics and Technology
- Faculty of Business Informatics and Complex Systems Management
Rankings
In 2022, QS World University rankings rated the university #308 in the world, World University Rankings by Times Higher Education ranked the university #401 in the world, and in 2023 U.S. News & World Report rated the university #483 in the world.Student population
The student population is predominantly male. During the first years from MEPhI's foundation there was a ban against accepting women. In recent years this situation has changed.Location
It is a 15-minute walk from the university to the Kashirskaya station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.Online resources
During 2016–18 MEPhI increased its presence in online educational platforms, namely Coursera, edX, Universarium and CLP4NET. By the end of 2018, MEPhI had provided 43 courses via those platforms, including 25 on Coursera and 11 on edX. In 2018, the number of students that joined MEPhI's online courses on the online platforms reached approximately 160,000 persons from 150 countries.Notable people
- Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov – Nobel Prize
- Pavel Cherenkov – Nobel Prize
- Ilya Mikhailovich Frank – Nobel Prize
- Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov – Nobel Prize
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov – Nobel Prize
- Igor Tamm – Nobel Prize
- Mukhtar Ablyazov – leader "Democratic choice of Kazakhstan", former minister of Energy, Industry and Trade in Kazakhstan
- Lev Artsimovich – known as "the father of the Tokamak"
- Sergei Avdeyev – engineer and cosmonaut, record for time spent in space: 747.59 days
- Alexander Mikhajlovich Baldin
- Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin
- Andrei Badalov – Vice President of Transneft
- Alexander Balankin
- Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov – physicist
- Igor Kurchatov
- Lev Gor'kov
- Evgenii Feinberg
- Yuri Oganessian – element 118 in Periodic Table named oganesson in his honor
- Lev Okun
- Igor Irodov – author of a series of handbooks on general physics.
- Dmitry Kholodov – Journalist who investigated corruption in the military and was assassinated on 17 October 1994
- Isaak Pomeranchuk
- Vyacheslav Starshinov – Olympic champion, world champion
- Elena Vesna – psychologist and Vice-Rector of Educational Affairs.
- Leonid Toptunov – senior reactor control chief engineer at Chernobyl
- Anatoli Bugorski – survived a radiation accident involving a high energy beam