of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS (1956) Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of RAS Institute of Solid State Physics RAS Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials RAS Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Kurchatov Institute (formerly Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy) Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics Lebedev Institute of Physics RAS (FIAN) Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering N.N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, RAS Nuclear Safety Institute of RAS (IBRAE) Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS Space Research Institute RAS (1965) Steklov Institute of Mathematics Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute and a number of OKBs (experimental design bureaux) In addition, a number of Russian and Western companies act as base organizations of MIPT. These include: 1C Company ABBYY Competentum Group or Physicon NPMP "Concept Consulting" Intel IPG Photonics Kraftway MetaSynthesis Paragon Software Group S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia SWsoft Yandex Degrees Before 1998, students could graduate only after completing the full six-year curriculum and defending their thesis. Upon graduation, they were awarded a specialist degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics and, beginning in the early 1990s, a Master's degree in Physics. Since 1998, students have been awarded a Bachelor's degree diploma after four years of study and the defense of a Bachelor's "qualification work" (effectively a smaller and less involved version of the Master's thesis). The full course of education at MIPT takes six years to complete, just like an American bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree. The MIPT curriculum is more extensive compared to an average American college according to the school. There is an opinion at the school that an MIPT specialist/Master's diploma may be roughly equivalent to an American PhD in physics. Rankings In 2020 and 2021, Times Higher Education ranked MIPT #201 in the world, in 2022 QS World University Ratings ranked it #290 in the world, in 2022 U.S. News & World Report ranked it #438 in the world, and in 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked it #501 in the world. Traditional university rankings are often based in part on the universities' research output and prizes won by faculty. People Demographics About 15% of all students are residents of Moscow and nearly the same are from Moscow region; the rest come from all over the former Soviet Union. The student population is almost exclusively male, with the female/male ratio in a department