Moscow State University (MSU) is located in Russia’s capital, one of the world’s premier cities. The school has over 40,000 students, 5,000 specialists who do refresher courses, and 6,000 professors and lecturers.
About 4,000 international students come to MSU each year. The university has 1,000 buildings, including eight dormitories. Its library holds nine million books, two million of which are in foreign languages.
MSU has an extremely decorated faculty and alumni network that includes 11 Nobel Laureates and 7 Fields Medalists. Famous politicians like Mikhail Gorbachev and Mikhail Suslov were affiliated with the university, as well as many famous writers such as Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov.
The school has some of the most sophisticated scientific equipment and training in Russia, including UNESCO courses in international demography and hydrology, an International Biotechnology Center, and an International LASER Center. MSU also houses Russia’s largest supercomputer.
In addition to its main Moscow facility, MSU has satellite campuses in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan.
