Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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Moscow State Institute of International Relations
МГИМО Университет


Established:	October 14, 1944
Type:	Public
President:	Anatoly V. Torkunov
Staff:	1,100
Undergraduates:	4,500
Location:	Moscow, Russia
Website:	http://www.mgimo.ru

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) (Russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (Университет) МИД России, often abbreviated МГИМО, MGIMO) is a state university in Moscow, Russia affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. It is the oldest and the best-known school of Russia for preparing specialists in International relations and Diplomacy. It is also considered as the Harvard of Russia.

MGIMO has a reputation for being elitist (for example, it is usually considered common knowledge in post-USSR countries that, at least during the USSR times, admission to MGIMO was mostly reserved to children of the Party and government nomenklatura). Even today, more than two-thirds of Russia's diplomats and senior government officials graduated from MGIMO. MGIMO, Sciences Po in France and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in the US are said to be the world's top three schools training future political leaders.

1 Institution
2 History
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Institution

Today MGIMO has six faculties and four institutes:

School of International Relations (Diplomacy)
School of International Law
School of International Economic Relations
School of Political Science
School of International Journalism
School of International Business and Business Administration

Institute of European Law
International Institute of Administration
Institute of Foreign Economic Relations
International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy

Preparatory Training Department
Department of Faculty Development

MGIMO provides training in the fields of international relations, political science, global economy, law, management, journalism and public relations to 4,500 undergraduate students as well as graduate researchers. The faculty of about 1,100 includes more than 150 professors (holding a "Doctor of Sciences" degree), more than 400 holders of "Candidate of Sciences" degree, 300 associate professors, as well as over two dozen full and correspondent members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and various specialised Russian and international academies, nine Merited scientists of Russia.

The MGIMO-University library contains over 700 000 volumes in books and magazines in Russian and more than 30 foreign languages. The library also includes the Museum of Rare Books which boasts a collection of 21 000 unique volumes.

Famous MGIMO alumni include President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Russia’s Ministers of Foreign Affais Sergei Lavrov, and Andrei Kozyrev, OSCE Secretary General Ján Kubiš. For more information about MGIMO alumni visit List of MGIMO alumni

[edit] History

MGIMO was founded on October 14, 1944, when the USSR Council of People's Commissars reorganized the School of International Relations of the Moscow State University into an autonomous institute. Among the "founding fathers" of MGIMO were such renowned Russian scientists, as Yevgeny Tarle, Georgy Frantsov and Sergey Krylov, one of the authors of the UN Charter

The first MGIMO admission comprised 200 students. Initially MGIMO consisted of three Schools: The School of International Relations, The School of Economics and The School of Law. In 1954 MGIMO was integrated with one of the oldest Russian institutes – the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, the successor of the famous Lasarevsky College, after which the Department of Oriental Studies was established.