Moscow Engineering Physics Institute

Template:Short description {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other{{#if:|Template:Main other }}{{#if:|Template:Main other }}{{#if:|Template:Main other }}{{#invoke:check for unknown parameters|check |unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox university with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | academic_affiliation | academic_affiliations | academic_staff | accreditation | address | administrative_staff | affiliation | affiliations | athletics_affiliations | athletics_nickname | athletics_nicknames | budget | campus | campus_type | campus_size | canton | caption | chair | chairman | chairperson | chancellor | city | closed | colors | colours | coor | coordinates | country | dean | director | doctoral | embedded | endowment | enrollment | established | faculty | footnotes | former_name | former_names | founder | founders | free | free1 | free2 | free_label | free_label1 | free_label2 | head | head_label | image | image_alt | image_name | image_size | image_upright | language | latin_name | location | logo | logo_alt | logo_size | logo_upright | map_size | mascot | mascots | module | motto | mottoeng | motto_lang | mottoeng | name | native_name | native_name_lang | nickname | nrhp | officer_in_charge | other | other_name | other_names | other_students | parent | postalcode | postcode | postgrad | prefecture | president | principal | province | provost | pushpin_label_position | pushpin_map | pushpin_map_caption | rector | region | religious_affiliation | sporting_affiliations | sports_free | sports_free1 | sports_free2 | sports_free3 | sports_free_label | sports_free_label1 | sports_free_label2 | sports_free_label3 | sports_nickname | sports_nicknames | state | students | superintendent | top_free | top_free1 | top_free2 | top_free_label | top_free_label1 | top_free_label2 | total_staff | type | undergrad | vice_chancellor | vice-president | vice_president | visitor | website | zipcode }}{{#invoke:Check for clobbered parameters|check | template = Infobox university | cat = Template:Main other | image; image_name | other_names; other_name | former_names; former_name | founders; founder | academic_affiliations; academic_affiliation | academic_staff; faculty | campus_type; campus | other_students; other | location; address | location; city | location; address | location; canton | location; prefecture | location; province | location; region | location; state | location; country | location; postalcode | location; postcode | location; zipcode | postalcode; postcode; zipcode | coordinates; coor | colors; colours | free_label; free_label1 | free; free1 | athletics_nicknames; sports_nicknames; athletics_nickname; sports_nickname; nickname | athletics_affiliations; sporting_affiliations | affiliation; affiliations | mascots; mascot | nrhp; embedded; module }} Template:Infobox university rankings National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (Template:Langx) 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 (#480-r) on behalf of Russian President's Decree of October 7, 2008 (#1448) "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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/russia Template:Bare URL inline</ref><ref name="auto1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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MEPHI University Reactor startup May 26, 1967 at 23:36

Academics

Today, MEPhI has nine main departments (faculties or institutes):

• 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

The university offers bachelor, masters (and similar degree 'Specialist'), and post-graduate degrees in physics, mathematics, computer science and other areas. MEPhI facilities include a 2.5 MW (thermal) pool-type research reactor and Neutrino Water Detector NEVOD. The university has about 35,000 students at branches in Moscow and other towns. In Moscow are around 7,500 students (including over 1300 foreigners). It normally takes 4 – 5.5 (some sub-departments take six) years for a student to graduate from MEPhI. The curriculum of the first two years consists exclusively of required courses (core), with emphasis on mathematics, physics, experimental work and English. After the two first years of studying students on a competition basis enroll in the sub-departments which specialize in different branches of physics, computer science, information security, mathematics, etc.

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MEPhi Nuclear Reactor Control Room

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.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto"/><ref>https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/russia Template:Bare URL inline</ref>

Global Ranking	MEPhI Rank among Russian universities (World Rank)
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
ARWU — Academic Ranking of World Universities								citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> (601–700)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> (701–800)
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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 (or a five-minute bus ride) 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

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Lev Artsimovich

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Igor Tamm

• Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Nobel Prize
• Pavel Cherenkov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Nobel Prize
• Ilya Mikhailovich Frank ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Nobel Prize
• Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Nobel Prize
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Nobel Prize
• Igor Tamm ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Nobel Prize
• Mukhtar Ablyazov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – leader "Democratic choice of Kazakhstan", former minister of Energy, Industry and Trade in Kazakhstan (21 April 1998 – October 1999)
• Lev Artsimovich – known as "the father of the Tokamak"
• Sergei Avdeyev ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – engineer and cosmonaut, record for time spent in space: 747.59 days
• Alexander Mikhajlovich Baldin ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Alexander Balankin ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov – physicist
• Igor Kurchatov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Lev Gor'kov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Evgenii Feinberg ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Yuri Oganessian ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – element 118 in Periodic Table named oganesson in his honor
• Lev Okun ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Igor Irodov – author of a series of handbooks on general physics.
• Dmitry Kholodov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Journalist who investigated corruption in the military and was assassinated on 17 October 1994
• Isaak Pomeranchuk ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Vyacheslav Starshinov ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Olympic champion, world champion
• Elena Vesna – ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) psychologist and Vice-Rector of Educational Affairs.
• Leonid Toptunov - senior reactor control chief engineer at Chernobyl

External links

• English language Template:Webarchive and Russian language official website of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) Template:In lang
• National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) Template:Webarchive Profile on the official website StudyInRussia Template:In lang