Faculties
As of September 2009, the university has 39 faculties and 15 research centres. A number of small faculties have been opened recently, such as Faculty of Physics and Chemistry and Higher School of Television. Evening classes are conducted by the Faculties of Economics, History, Journalism, Philology, Psychology and Sociology while the Faculty of Journalism offers a correspondence degree program. Here is the full list of faculties, according to the official web-site:
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Faculty of Physics Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Materials Science Faculty of Biology Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Faculty of Soil Science Faculty of Geology Faculty of Geography Faculty of Medicine Faculty of History Faculty of Philology Faculty of Philosophy Faculty of Economics Faculty of Law Faculty of Journalism Faculty of Psychology The Institute of Asian and African Studies Faculty of Sociology |
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies Faculty of Public Administration Faculty of World Politics Faculty of Political Science Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts Faculty of Global Studies Faculty of Education Graduate School of Business Administration Faculty of Physics and Chemistry Moscow School of Economics Higher School of Translation and Interpretation Higher School of Public Administration Higher School of Public Audit Higher School of Administration and Innovations Higher School of Innovative Business Administration Higher School of Contemporary Social Sciences Higher School of Television Faculty of Further Education Faculty of Military Training
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Institutions and research centres
Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
Institute of Mechanics
Sternberg Astronomical Institute
A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology
Research Computing Center
N.N. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Problems of Microphysics
White Sea Biological Station
Moscow University Herbarium
and several others
Staff and students
Currently the university employs more than 4,000 academics and 15,000 support staff. Approximately 5,000 scholars work at the university's research institutes and related facilities. More than 40,000 undergraduates and 7,000 advanced degree candidates are enrolled. More than 5,000 specialists participate in refresher courses for career enhancement. Annually, the university hosts approximately 2,000 students, graduate students, and researchers from around the world.
Academic reputation
A few more narrowly specialized Moscow colleges, including the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations were split off from MSU at one time or another and have since established strong reputations of their own, arguably even surpassing their parent in terms of prestige and quality of education.
The main Building in winter
The university has well-established contacts with the most distinguished universities in the world, exchanging students and lecturers with the leading international institutions of higher education. It houses the UNESCO International Demography Courses, the UNESCO Hydrology Courses, the International Biotechnology Center, the International LASER Center, courses or seminars on Russian as a foreign language. In 1991 the French University College, the Russian-American University and the Institute of German Science and Culture were opened. The university has awarded honorary degrees to more than 60 scientists, statesmen and politicians from abroad. Many prominent university scholars and scientists in return hold honorary degrees from foreign academies and universities.
Moscow State University is one of Russia's most prestigious institutions of higher education, and has demanding entry requirements for prospective students. Nonetheless, it performs inconsistently in international rankings. While it was placed 77th overall[8] by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 112th[9] by QS World University Rankings, it was not included among the top 200 universities[10] by recent Times Higher World University Rankings and came in at 296th (based on the full THE World University Rankings in their iPhone application). On a highly cited and consistent ranking, Moscow State University ranked 43rd in 2008, 44th in 2009–2011, and 45th among 300 Best World Universities in 2012 compiled by Human Resources & Labor Review (HRLR) on Measurements of World's Top 300 Universities Graduates' Performance.[11] Despite its large number of faculties, Moscow State University seems to be strong mostly in natural sciences and mathematics (currently placed between 38th[9] and 75th[12] in the world) but considerably weaker in other disciplines. Despite the fact that it is still the highest ranked Russian university according to the three international rankings mentioned above (with the nearest Russian competitor being Saint Petersburg State University that scored 300–400th), the university was consistently placed outside top 5 nationally in 2010–2011 by Forbes[13] and Ria Novosti / HSE.,[14] with both ratings based on data set collected by GU VSHE from Russian Unified State Exam scores averaged per all students and faculties of university.
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