MIET is granted a distinguished category of National Research University
At the 26-th of April MIET won a state competition among Russian Universities for the priviliged status of National Research University (NRU).
The new category confirmed the leading positions of MIET in training specialists for electronics and high technologies. The victory in the competition will also provide the University with additional government financing of 1.8 billion rubles within 2010-2014 years.
Professor Yuri A. Chaplygin, MIET Rector, and Vice-rectors spoke about the new status at the press-conference, devoted to the victory in the competition. Rector stressed, that National Research Universities are the leaders in the sphere of education, science and innovations. Particularly MIET is the recognized leader of the Russian higher education in electronics. The University application was called: «The National Research University of Electronics – MIET». There were marked out two priority development directions of the University – «micro and nanoelectronics» and «radioelectronic equipment and devices».
