Moscow State Institute of International Relations
| Московский государственный институт международных отношений | |
| Type | Public |
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| Established | October 14, 1944 |
| Affiliation | Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs |
| President | Anatoly V. Torkunov |
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Administrative staff
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1,100 |
| Undergraduates | 4,500 |
| Location | Moscow, Russia |
| Website | http://english.mgimo.ru |
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Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (Университет) МИД России, often abbreviated МГИМО, MGIMO) is an academic institution run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, which is widely considered the most elite university in Russia. It was dubbed the "Harvard of Russia" by Henry Kissinger, because it educates so many of Russia's political, economic, and intellectual elite. Currently, it has the lowest acceptance rate and the highest test scores of any university in the country.
MGIMO is the oldest and the most renowned school in Russia for preparing students for careers in international relations and diplomacy. Many of the current professors were ambassadors or ministers. Since the 1990s, MGIMO has expanded its academic programme, now offering degrees ranging from journalism to economics and management. Today, the majority of alumni no longer pursue a career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, instead joining large corporations or serving in other parts of the state apparatus.
It is the only university ever included in the Guinness Book of World Records, as its 56 languages are the most taught at any academic institution in the world.
MGIMO was founded on October 14, 1944, when the USSR Council of People’s Commissars reorganized the recently created School of International Relations of the Moscow State University into an independent institute. Initially called the Institute of International Relations (IMO) its first 200 students were veterans who had survived the ordeals of the Second World War and were determined to build international peace and stability.
From the outset MGIMO was intended to become a unique academic research and education center. It quickly became Russia’s leading diplomatic training institution, with MGIMO academics making a major contribution across the fields of international relations, country and regional studies, international law and international economic relations. Additionally, it took a position at the forefront of scientific endeavor, with the establishment of several world-renowned scientific schools, and as the workplace of many outstanding Russian scientists, including Academy of Sciences members E. Tarle, L. Ivanov, V. Trukhanovskiy, S. Tikhvinskiy, N. Inozemtsev, and Y. Frantsev.
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