Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого
Former name
Saint Petersburg State Technical University
TypePublic / National research university
Established1899
EndowmentUS $298 million
PresidentMikhail P. Fedorov
RectorAndrey I. Rudskoy
Academic staff
3291
Administrative staff
1,940[1]
Students32,250[1]
Address
Polytechnicheskaya 29, 195251
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CampusUrban, city center, 102 hectares
ColoursGreen/Golden
NicknamePolytech
MascotTwo-Headed Eagle
Websitewww.spbstu.ru
University rankings
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[2]46 (2022)

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU, is a public technical university located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The university houses one of the country's most advanced research labs in hydroaerodynamics. The university's alumni include Nobel Prize winners, such as Pyotr Kapitsa and Zhores Alferov, physicists and atomic weapon designers such as Yulii Khariton, Nikolay Dukhov, Abram Ioffe, Aleksandr Leipunskii, and Yakov Zeldovich, aircraft designers and aerospace engineers, such as Yulii Khariton, Oleg Antonov, Nikolai Polikarpov, and Georgy Beriev, and chess grandmasters, such as David Bronstein. The university offers academic programs at the Bachelor, Master's, and Doctorate degree levels. SPbSPU consists of structural units called Institutes divided into three categories:[3] Engineering Institutes, Physical Institutes, and Economics and Humanities Institutes. In 2022, the university was ranked #301 in the world in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, #393 in QS World University Rankings, #679 in Best Global Universities Rankings by U.S. News & World Report, and #1,005 by Center for World University Rankings.[4][5][6]

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  2. ^ "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Institutes". Spbstu-eng.ru. Retrieved Jul 31, 2019.
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  5. ^ "University Rankings and Student Reviews : Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)". Mastersportal.com. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Ranking 2019-2020". Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).