ITMO University

ITMO University is one of the leading Russian universities in the field of information technologies and photonics, one of the few Russian universities that received the status of a national research university in 2009. ITMO University is one of 21 universities-participants of Russian Academic Excellence Project “5-100”.
Today ITMO University educates more than 11,000 students and employs more than 1,100 lecturers and 1,200 PhDs, including 110 foreign professors. ITMO University is the only 7-time winner of the World programming competition ACM ICPC and an alma mater to the most of the top-ranked competitive programmers.
The University’s mission is to generate cutting-edge knowledge, implement innovative findings and prepare an elite workforce capable of working in a fast-paced world and ensuring progress in science and technology.