The President is also to meet with students who won various national competitions, to discuss over tea urgent issues in higher education and student life. This meeting will be attended by students of the University itself and of its branches in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, Ulyanovsk, Kaluga, Nizhny Novgorod and Rostov regions.
MEPhI is one of the first universities to be awarded the title of national research university several years ago. Fundamental research is conducted here; experts for the nuclear industry are trained in close collaboration with the Rosatom corporation; the university maintains regular contacts with leading research centres and universities the world over.