About the University
Today, Moscow University is the largest classical university in Russia. MSU has 40 faculties (21 faculties have been established over the past 20 years), 15 research institutes, a Medical Scientific and Educational Center, a Scientific Library, 4 museums, a Botanical Garden, a Science Park, branches in Sarov, Sevastopol, Tashkent, Astana, Baku, Dushanbe, Yerevan, and a joint MSU-PPI university in Shenzhen (China). The area of the MSU campus on the Sparrow Hills in Moscow is 1,200,000 sq.m. The campus territory can be compared to a city within a city—a student cannot even leave its borders, as it has everything they need: libraries, reading rooms, relaxation rooms, printing.