National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"  (MISIS) is the leading institution of higher education that trains engineers and scientists in the fields of metallurgy and materials science; metal production and metal treatment; production of compound, powder, nano-, super- and semi-conducting materials; development of advanced materials and technologies; increase of raw material effectiveness; ecological issues; certification and quality management of materials and their production; economics and management issues; informatics and automated control systems.

 

University’s organization structure was modernized in 2009 in the frame of MISIS competitiveness and quality conception. Today we have 7 educational colleges created on the base of the faculties:

College of Undergraduate Study,College of Ecotechnologies and Engineering, College of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies, Сollege of Economics and Enterprises Management, Сollege of Information Technologies and Automatic Control System, Сollege of Information Business Systems, College of Continuous Education

Faculty of part-time education and Faculty of the distance learning. They train highly qualified specialists in more than 30 directions of modern science, engineering and technologies.

 

MISIS is a research university which combines advanced educational technologies with serious scientific activities. Since 2003 MISIS among few other universities has been accredited as a scientific institution. University is conducting researches in all 8 priority directions of science and technique approved by the Government of Russian Federation.

 

MISIS is one of the five best Russian universities in R&D volume per one lecturer. Novelty and relevance of the MISIS’s scientific researches are proved by the fact that on the base of their results during the last five years more than 2000 articles have been published, 71 patents received, three licenses soled, four discoveries made.

" MISIS is a materials science center. All around the world materials science goes together with the metallurgy. If you visit Cambridge, walk over the University, you will certainly notice the building where Rutherford’s laboratory with a legendary crocodile on the wall was previously placed. Cambridge Department of materials science and metallurgy is situated just round the corner. They are not even twins they are a single whole. It can be explained by the fact that the Metallurgy is the base for numerous materials. Metallurgical technologies allow us to deal with any possible and impossible systems not only metallic, but also semi-conductors, dielectrics, composition, carbonaceous materials, all kinds of ceramics. MISIS works in any sphere ranging from the diehard cast iron (although the cast iron metallurgy itself is a fantastically interesting science) to artificial diamonds, including all kinds of non-ferrous, rare-earth, diffused, radio-active metals and their compositions. Neither plastics nor any other materials can confuse us. It was in 1970-s that the program “Sub-dispersed systems” was realized in the Academy of Sciences. It’s the same program as nano-materials but at that time there wasn’t such a word. In the MISIS in 1980 our first scientist was awarded the State Prize for the research in this front line of science – sub-thin, sub-dispersed, over-dispersed systems.

 

However MISIS doesn’t have any special chairs of nano-technologies or nano-materials because about fifteen University chairs and laboratories deal with these fields. They have specialized in their directions for many years. Besides in the MISIS there aren’t any chairs of composed metals or other fashionable subjects of our days. A lot of our scientists work with the composed materials – beginning from the founders up to the powder metallurgists. 

This is the MISIS.

 

That is why its importance is predetermined, whatever new projects are launched, like today’s nano-corporation."