OREANDA-NEWS. October 23, 2009.  The Higher School of Economics has been given the status of a National Research University .

On October 7th the final session of the judging committee took place, which selected universities for a development program and assigned them the status of National Research University. 28 applications from universities, finalists of the contest, were scrutinised by the committee members during the session.

As a result of this discussion, by secret vote, 12 universities were selected as winners. They receive the status of a National Research University and grants from the federal budget for their development programmes in 2009-2018 amounting up to 1.8 billion roubles each.

List of the winners of the contest of universities' development programmes, which are receiving a status of a National Research University

The Higher School of Economics

Tupolev Kazan State Technical University

Moscow Aviation Institute (State Technical University)

Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University

Novosibirsk State University

Perm State Technical University

Korolev Samara State Aerospace University

Plekhanov Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute

Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Tomsk Polytechnic University.