Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University

Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"
TypePublic
Established1886
RectorViktor Sheludko
Students9,000
Address
ul. Professora Popova 5, 197376
,
Saint Petersburg
,
Russian Federation

59°58′21″N 30°19′21″E / 59.97250°N 30.32250°E / 59.97250; 30.32250
Websitehttps://etu.ru/en/university
University rankings
Global – Overall
QS World[1]751-800 (2023)
THE World[2]1,201 (2022)
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[3]150 (2022)

Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU, ETU "LETI", Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет «ЛЭТИ» им. В.И. Ульянова (Ленина), СПбГЭТУ «ЛЭТИ») is a public university. It was founded in 1886 as a Technical College. LETI, as it is popularly called, received the status of a higher education institution in 1899 and became known as Electrotechnical Institute. The University has programs in fields of radio engineering, telecommunications, control processes, computer engineering and IT, electronics, biomedical engineering, management, and linguistics.

In August 2016 ETU “LETI” became the part of the Project 5-100,[4] a Russian academic excellence program seeking to bring five Russian universities into the top 100 in world rankings.

In 2023, the university was ranked #751-800 in the world by QS World University Rankings, and in 2022 it was ranked #1,201 by Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[1][2]

Viktor Sheludko (Шелудько Виктор Николаевич), the rector of the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University has signed a letter of support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5][6]

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  2. ^ a b "Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", Russia". study.eu.
  3. ^ "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Вузы". www.5top100.ru. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
  5. ^ "Обращение Российского Союза ректоров 04.03.2022". Российский Союз Ректоров. March 4, 2022. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Sheludko Viktor Nikolaevich". Open Sanctions. 2022-01-01. Retrieved 2024-09-08.