MEPHI-Moscow National Research Nuclear University

e until 2009. Today, MEPhI has five main departments (faculties):

Experimental and theoretical physics
Physics and Technology
Cybernetics and Information security
Automatics and electronics
High Technology Management and Economics

The university offers bachelor, masters (and similar degree ‘Specialist’), and post-graduate degrees in physics, mathematics, computer science and other areas. The curriculum of the first two years consists exclusively of required courses, with emphasis on mathematics, physics, experimental work and English. After the two first years of studying students on a competition basis enroll to the sub-departments which specialize in different branches of physics, computer science, information security, mathematics, etc. Starting with the fourth year, some students have a choice to make their diploma thesis, working at base science institutes. Most of them are research institutes, usually belonging to the Russian Academy of Sciences.