DUSHANBE, December 22, 2009, Asia-Plus — The branch of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University), known as MISIS, is expected to be established in Dushanbe next year, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE).
“The MISIS delegation recently visited Dushanbe and selected a building for its branch,” said the source, “According the preliminary information, the branch will accept some 50-70 students in 2010. Testing for entrants will start in May 2010 and it will conducted by the MISIS teachers.”
We will recall that the MISIS branch will be established in Dushanbe under the government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and Russia on the procedure of establishment and functioning of branches of Russian higher educational institutions in Tajikistan and branches of Tajik higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation that was signed in Moscow on December 14.
State Technological University “Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys” is Russia’s primary technological university in the field of steelmaking and metallurgy. It was established in 1918 as a part of the Moscow Mining Academy. In 1930, it became independent. It adopted its current name in 1962 after having been united with the Institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold. The status of Technological University was awarded in 1993. MISIS is the leading university of the Higher Metallurgical Education Association, whose members include universities from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. It has joint degree programs with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Freiberg, Germany and the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy, France.
