Established 1918 Rector Alevtina Chernikova Total enrollment 13,682 (2014) Founded 1930 | President Yuri S. Karabasov Nickname MISIS Phone +7 495 638-46-78 | |
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Address Leninsky Ave, 4, Moskva, Russia, 119049 Notable alumni Mikhail Fridman, Vladimir Solovyov, Dmitry Livanov, German Khan, Alexei Kuzmichev Similar Moscow State Mining U, National Research Nuclear, The State University of Manag, Moscow Institute of Physics a, Moscow Power Engineeri | ||
National university of science and technology misis en
The National University of Science and Technology "MISiS" (formerly Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys State Technological University) [ Russian: Национальный исследовательский университет "МИСиС"] ) is Russia's primary technological university in the field of steelmaking and metallurgy. It was established in 1918 as a part of the Moscow Mining Academy. In 1930, it became independent. During Stalin's regime, the Institute was renamed the Stalin Moscow Institute of Steel. It adopted the name Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1962 after uniting with the Institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold. The status of Technological University was awarded in 1993 and the status of a National University in 2008, when the institution adopted its current name.
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MISIS is the leading university of the Higher Metallurgical Education Association, whose members include universities from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. It has joint degree programmes with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Freiberg, Germany and the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy, France.
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MISIS has about 16,500 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students, and a faculty of about 1200, including 326 professors and 350 associate professors.