Murmansk State Technical University or MSTU is one of the oldest universities on the Kola peninsula. The university was founded in the year of 1950. Initially it had a name of the High Marine School (HMS). Later it received the status of the Russian State Academy of Fishing Fleet and since 1996 it has become the Murmansk State Technical University, the biggest and the most prestigious educational Center in the Far North of Russia and undoubtedly one of the biggest and famous in the whole North-West of the country.

The Faculties of MSTU

Today Murmansk State Technical University comprises the fourteen separate academic units - the twelve faculties and the two institutes:

• The Faculty of Economics
• The Faculty of Law
• The Faculty of International Economics and International Relations
• The Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology
• The Polytechnic Faculty
• The Faculty of Natural Science
• The Faculty of Arts and Social Science
• The Faculty of Biology
• The Faculty of Continuing Education for Marine Staff
• The Faculty of Marine Engineering
• The Faculty of Marine Navigation
• The Faculty of Part-Time Education
• The Faculty of Social and Economic Studies (part-time programs)

• The Institute of Distance Learning Programs
• The Institute of Continuing Education

http://www.mstu.edu.ru/