| Year Found | Country | Legal form | Course | Study language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Russia | State |
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Russian |
Experience in teaching foreign students and total amount of overseas alumni Education of foreigners since1946. Total amount of alumni - about 7500.
Moscow Power Institute (Technical University) – MPEI – was founder in1930in Moscow at the very beginning of world power engineering development and was widened and enlarged with discovering of new energy sources, solving new scientific and technological problems, implement-ing of new methods of energy generation, distribution and consumption. MPEI is of the same age as Russia Power Engineering.
Now MPEI is the largest educational and scientific centre, one of the main technical universities in Russia in the field of Power Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Radio Engineering and Electronics, Informatics and Computer Science. MPEI is rigged up with educational and scientific laboratories, offices and lecture halls with modern equipment and technical training aids. MPEI has the official status of Technical University and is a member of International Association of Universities, which represents interests of international higher education. MPEI holds one of the leading places in every-year official rating among technical universities of Russia.
Now MPRI consists of 7 Technical Institutes, Preliminary faculty, Qualification raising faculty for specialists from industry and educational institutions, Institute of Humanities, Institute of technology, ecology and business, Russian –German Institute MPEI-FESTO, Institute of business safety and Linguistics Institute. There are 70 Departments in MPEI, 550educational laboratories for students, more than 100 research laboratories and High-tech Centre. Now more than 12,000 students and 500 PhD. students are trained at MPEI, including 900 foreign students and post-graduates from 66 countries.


