Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology
was founded on 28 November, 1828 by the edit of Emperor Nicholas I, and later named after him.
Nowadays Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University), SPSIT is a large multidisciplinary educational and research center training over 5 000 students and 200 PhD students in more than 35 specialities.
SPSIT is a worldwide recognizable center of higher education where fundamental training is integrated into practice. The institute`s mission is to train highly-skilled professionals who would posess up-to date systematic knowledge, demanded skills and abilities in order to efficiently meet manufacturing, scientific and socioeconomic challenges that both Russia and the whole world community face nowadays. Study programs are based on ratified educational standards and harmonically group the latest scientific and technical progress.
Most departments are provided with scientific research laboratories and divisions, which perform research activities and development on major directions of engineering science.
A structure of the Institute includes 6 departments:
- Chemistry of Substances and Materials
- Chemical and BioTechnology
- Mechanical department
- Information Technology and Administration
- Engineering and Technology
- Economics and Management