MGIMO is renowned as one of Russia’s leading universities for international, political, legal and economic studies. MGIMO today offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, as well as PhD, MBA, EMBA courses and pre-university training. The range of academic disciplines constantly expands as new departments and programs are launched every year.
The University has two campuses, thirteen schools and a research institute. Over its 75-year history, MGIMO has evolved from a training school for Russian foreign service officers to a university that breeds innovative leaders with a global perspective. MGIMO is known for its teamwork, analytical thinking, critical reasoning and strategic planning.
MGIMO highlights:
The mission of MGIMO, as an academic center and a think-tank, is to provide top-quality training and research on the contemporary agenda of global politics and economics, shape a new generation of foreign policy practitioners and thinkers for the benefit of Russia and the international community. It implies promoting MGIMO’s potential on the Russian and global scale as:
MGIMO has granted honorary doctorate degrees to prominent foreign politicians, public experts, diplomats and scholars, such as the presidents of France and Greece, Chile and Ecuador, Serbia, and Guinea, Indonesia and Finland, Azerbaijan and Jordan; prime ministers of Japan and India; general secretaries of the United Nations and UNESCO.
A key priority of MGIMO’s international policy is the development of bilateral and multilateral international relations, and the promotion of educational and scientific exchanges.