Murmansk State Technical University | |
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Murmansk State Technical University |
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Type | Public |
Rector | Alexander Ershov |
Students | 8000[1] |
Undergraduates | 7700[1] |
Postgraduates | 300[1] |
Location | Murmansk, Russia |
Campus | Urban |
Mascot | The STS Sedov |
Website | www.mstu.edu.ru |
Murmansk State Technical University or MSTU is one of the oldest universities on the Kola peninsula. The university was founded in the year of 1950. Initially it had a name of the High Marine School (HMS). Later it received the status of the Russian State Academy of Fishing Fleet and since 1996 it has become the Murmansk State Technical University, the biggest and the most prestigious educational Center in the Far North of Russia and undoubtedly one of the biggest and famous in the whole North-West of the country.
Today Murmansk State Technical University comprises the fourteen separate academic units - the twelve faculties and the two institutes: