Until the 1990s, this worthy university in all respects trained personnel for nuclear research, and now work is under the auspices of Rosatom. The faculties of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Chemical Physics and others show themselves perfectly. There are enthusiastic reviews about the MEPhI teachers, no less good reviews about the powerful theoretical and technical training of students.
The road to scientists
A person who has chosen this educational institution in order to become a good engineer, from those who are snapped up, will certainly achieve the desired. The main thing is to guess with the faculty and to show oneself well during the first year of study, until the moment when the distribution among the departments takes place.
The well-developed programs for which the university works, and the strongest selection of teachers guarantee students excellent scientific and theoretical training in all 80 departments of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Reviews are especially often received about PEC, TNF, cosmophysics, nuclear physics, medical physics - this is the very way by which a student comes to scientists.
Brotherly atmosphere
Freshmen who have more than 240 points in total for the exam, receive in the first semester doubled scholarship. But you should not relax: to get a scholarship in the second semester, you need to work hard during the first semester. And so to the very end - to the diploma. Those who have been lazy for more than a year do not last at MEPhI; student reviews speak of screenings of up to 90 people.
And the rest in the walls of the university is very comfortable: students respect each other, love teachers, no one refuses to help anyone, it seems that brothers and sisters are studying here. MEPhI, reviews of which rarely go beyond the tonality of delight, is a closed zone, since there is a nuclear reactor on the territory. Admission by compulsory passes. Just watching or showing your friends won't work.
Physics + Chemistry - Army
Many MEPhI students, who have already written reviews, advise first-year physicists to pay as much attention to the study of chemistry as possible, warning that if they do not force themselves to love it, then they will have to give up their dreams of graduating from this university. In addition, even before entering the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, one needs to work closely on computer science: the ability to write programs is a prerequisite, and after admission no one will learn this from a freshman year.
The incentive for good study in the second year is the military department, where classes are held only once a week. Upon graduation, there is an automatic enrollment in reserve troops. So, you can do research, science, career - the army will only qualify for a graduate of the military department in case of war. And doing science under the guidance of MEPhI teachers, whose reviews are excellent, is happiness. Among them are five (!) Nobel laureates and a huge number of distinguished scientists.
general information
One of the first places in the ranking of Russian universities today is occupied by the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Theoretical and experimental physics, cybernetics, automation and electronics, economics and high-tech physics, information security - these are the main areas of work of NRNU MEPhI, reviews of which are given by highly qualified specialists.
A number of humanitarian specialists are also trained here. Both fundamental and applied research are carried out in 20 areas, the highest priority for the development of science and technology. Both Russian and international enterprises actively interact on the basis of this university. MEPhI reviews come from all over the world, Moscow is proud of its higher school of this level.
Faculty "T"
Reviews about it prevail in total quantity about this university. The most important of the advantages of the Faculty of Experimental and Theoretical Physics is the exceptionally high quality of education. A sufficiently strong and complex course of mathematics, which took as a basis the mechmath program, which in this case is completely natural - most teachers in the past are graduates of the mechmath, where B.P.Demidovich's problem book was compiled. Learning is not so easy because the requirements are high. But in mathematics, students of MEPhI (faculty "T", reviews of which are only positive) are overwhelmingly more than good.
The course of physics is with a complex theory, but it is more fundamental than anywhere else. The tasks that students perform are mostly applied, in connection with which some dissonances sometimes appear. Physics is studied according to the textbooks of Savelyev and Herodov, who, incidentally, were themselves teachers of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. There are reviews of students about the use of Sivukhin’s textbook (as an auxiliary one).
Laboratory work and more
In laboratory work, the requirements are unusually high, you will have to thoroughly torment in order to fully master all the postulates of the theory of errors and errors. Such is the whole study at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, the reviews of freshmen and senior students in this regard do not differ: yes, it is difficult. The volume of work in theoretical physics depends on the department, but there are no easy ways anywhere. This course is compiled entirely according to Landau, the amount of material varies from three volumes to ten.
Other items (compared to the main ones, of course) will require much less effort. For example, English could be taught in a larger volume. Programming gives a lot of new things, for example, methods of mathematical modeling. Maybe there are stronger faculties in MEPhI, reviews, however, have not yet been reported.
Internship abroad
Interaction with international enterprises gives students the opportunity to internships while studying abroad, gaining experience from leading enterprises, including corporations in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the World Nuclear University, the IAEA, Intel, as well as the US Department of Energy, the American Civil Research and Development Foundation, and the European Center Nuclear Research, Microsoft Corporation, INB and many others. From everywhere, students bring flattering reviews about MEPhI. Moscow is one of the first places among the capitals of the world in terms of the level of education of nuclear students.
The distribution of the departments
After summarizing the session after the end of the first year, the student can choose a department where he will continue his studies in the future specialty. Naturally, one cannot count on studying at the strongest departments with a low score, among which the fundamental ones are applied mathematics and theoretical physics. Next to them, on student desires, are the department of lasers and the department of elementary particles. This is for the T faculty.
Faculty "A"
Faculty “A” (Automation and Electronics) is very good - truly high-quality engineers graduate from it: specialists who are able to develop, research and design automatic control systems for physical installations, experiments and technological processes, the latest instruments and devices in electronics, microelectronics and measuring equipment data processing devices.
Specialists are also trained in managing physical research ( microprocessor technology is widely used ), computer medical systems, charged particle accelerators, microwave electronics, pulsed and microwave energy systems, and other electrophysical installations.
Faculty "F"
Founded back in 1942, but subsequently more than once renamed, the Faculty of Physics and Technology is also very popular at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, and reviews there are no less enthusiastic. In any case, the faculty “T” appeared as a result of the division of the engineering physics department, and the faculty “F” was practically his brother. This happened in 1954.
Students here participate in international programs no less than others: they explore space with NASA, cooperate with Western Europe in the INTAS program, control nuclear materials with American master's programs, the faculty has five ISTC projects and the Belgian Nuclear Research Center is involved in several projects of the faculty.
Branches
In total, MEPhI includes eleven institutes - separate structural divisions. One of them is IATE NRNU MEPhI, reviews of which will be of interest to applicants who wish to associate their profession with nuclear power plants.
The Institute of Atomic Energy is located in Obninsk. For more than fifty years, he trained many thousands of specialists for this industry both in Russia and abroad. The range of areas of study is very wide: atomic physics, cybernetics, mathematical modeling, high-performance computing, materials science, management, financial affairs and so on. Other branches of MEPhI are no less interesting.
Software engineering
Reviews about the faculty of KiB are also quite numerous, which will greatly help applicants who choose the field of computer technology, as well as programming and, of course, information security. I must admit that this faculty, judging by the reviews, does not exceed similar faculties of other universities, although the MEPhI brand itself plays an attractive role.
There are interesting specializations at the faculty, including the sector "K", which is responsible for the training of specialists in control systems for critical important objects. There are four areas in this sector, which are studied at departments 28, 17, 33, 68 and 22. One of the most interesting specializations of MEPhI is software engineering. Reviews on the 22nd department, which produces bachelors in this specialty, are generally good.
IFEB
Since 2006, there has been an Institute for Financial and Economic Security, created by Rosfinmonitoring to counter the legalization of criminal proceeds and the financing of terrorists. Training of specialists in primary financial monitoring takes place on the basis of MEPhI.
Economic security (reviews about this specialty are not numerous for many reasons) requires students not only to have extensive and stable basic knowledge. They practice in the central office and the MRU, in the national financial intelligence departments of some EAR states.
MEPhI manages to take into account the specifics and characteristics of the interaction of all the specialties of this unit, while providing a single standard for training. Graduates work both at Rosfinmonitoring and the FSB of Russia, as well as in the prosecution authorities and the Investigative Committee, in the apparatus of leading banks, in state corporations and IT companies.
IMO
A number of federal ministries initiated the creation of the Institute of International Relations in 1999 on the basis of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. International relations, reviews lose only MGIMO (and that, they say, according to established tradition), - the direction is popular. Graduates are engaged in political and social aspects of international cooperation in science, engineering and technology, analysis of the activities of international associations and organizations, support of international projects in high technology, competitive and financial and economic analysis of international markets for high-tech products.
Faculty of Humanities
It existed until 2009, after which it was renamed the Faculty of Management and Economics of High Technologies, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. An economy, the reviews of which are quite diverse, is the main subject in training a specialist in international relations, since he will be engaged in accounting, financial management, law, economic and financial security.
According to students, international experts are better prepared at MEPhI at the "U" faculty than at all other universities, except MGIMO. You can look at the statistics, the scatter of acts of cooperation, ratings. MEPhI is in many respects ahead of even the aforementioned university. A big plus is that few people are looking at the ratings, and it’s more realistic to do international relations at MEPhI than at MGIMO, even on a budgetary basis.
Correspondence school
MEPhI, whose reviews are so numerous, is growing by talented students due to the existence of more than forty years of correspondence school, where students from the sixth to eleventh grade receive distance learning and study physics, mathematics, chemistry and other subjects, and now they are preparing for the exam.
Manuals and assignments are sent by parcels, then teachers communicate with children by mail - electronic or paper, then the student chooses. Thus, the services of the correspondence school can be used by any student, wherever he lives.
Hostel and hotel
There is no better student shelter than at MEPhI. The hostel, reviews of which are flooded with student forums, is a quarter of an hour on foot from the place of study - very convenient. Two 24-story towers - two buildings, plus two 5-story towers. 3000 people can live in high-rise buildings , another 500 can be accommodated in dormitories of the corridor type. On the ground floors there are buffets and cookery, gyms, pay phones. Throughout the territory - the Internet, radio and television, security and video surveillance, automated fire protection. There is something to love the MEPhI students' hostel, write enthusiastic reviews. Here they live comfortably. Therefore, household problems do not waste time, it is given to study.
Dormitories are of apartment type, where each apartment is equipped with all kinds of furniture for storing things, relaxing, working, there are refrigerators and electric stoves in the kitchens, spacious bathrooms and toilets, glazed loggias. On the territory of this entire complex, for the convenience of students, there are ticket offices, a passport office, and bookkeeping.