Program choice
Level 3
Major & minor
University
MEPhI
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
Ranking positions
- QS (2026) = 591
- THE (2026) = 601-800
- RAEX (2025) = 5
Educational model
Flexibility coordinates
Course choice
Level 2
Distribution requirements ("M of N")
Parameters
- Program duration (bachelor's and specialist degrees):
- 4 - 6 years
Sources
- Bachelor's and specialist degree programs https://admission.mephi.ru/admission/baccalaureate-and-specialty/education/programs
The admissions page shows the entry point: applicants choose a specific field and educational program.
Used together with profile-institute sources that describe built-in mechanisms for later pathway choice.
- MEPhI undergraduate admissions guide, 2022 https://admission.mephi.ru/content/public/uploads/documents/spravochnik_2022_web.pdf
The guide describes admission, foundational study in years 1-2, and professional training in profile institutes in later years.
Its student-opportunity section explicitly names profile training as a major and an additional profile as a minor.
- Study features: INPhE bachelor's and specialist programs https://inphe.mephi.ru/features_bach
The INPhE page describes preliminary program choice at admission and a repeated educational-program choice after semester 4 within an enlarged field group.
It also describes a required additional-specialization block in semesters 5-7 as a minor that differs from the main field of study.
- Individual learning pathways in INPhE bachelor's education https://inphe.mephi.ru/node/18821
The INPhE material records the September 1, 2021 launch of an individual-learning-pathway experiment in bachelor's education.
It describes choice of up to 40% of courses and academic modules, dynamic free-choice groups, and individual timetables.
- Regulation on the organization of elective course study https://mephi.ru/content/public/uploads/files/imported/system/documents/Ver_2017/PL%207.5-11%20ver.2.1.pdf
The regulation sets a common procedure for choosing elective courses within the curriculum.
It confirms mandatory elective choice, while limiting it to the course list defined by the specific program.
- Curriculum: Computer Systems and Technologies, 2025 cohort https://eis2.mephi.ru/programs/Program/Curriculum/1211?curriculumId=1e5f50be-ba36-4369-8764-c2d13696dc3c
The bachelor's curriculum shows elective blocks in humanities, general professional, and professional modules.
The choice is embedded in the approved program and does not appear to be an unrestricted university-wide course pool.
- Curriculum: Nuclear Reactors and Power Plants, 2025 cohort https://eis2.mephi.ru/programs/Program/Curriculum/1186?curriculumId=09bb8cb8-4c23-482a-8d04-ed25357af35c
This current INPhE bachelor's curriculum contains elective blocks in humanities, natural science, general professional, and professional modules.
It confirms that the institute's stated choice model is represented in formal curricula.
- Curriculum: Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion and Plasma Technologies, 2022 cohort https://eis2.mephi.ru/programs/Program/Curriculum/403?curriculumId=df3fe117-9690-454f-8377-cb32e7173759
This Institute of Laser and Plasma Technologies bachelor's curriculum is for the 2022 cohort and shows that elective blocks were already embedded in the formal plan.
The plan includes humanities, natural science, and professional elective blocks, including cross-profile alternatives.