Russian-Moroccan Alliance is successfully implementing an educational project in cooperation with Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and the RAFU consortium, which includes 80+ Russian universities.
Founded more than 125 years ago, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University is now the leading university in Russia having top-positions in the World Rankings:
- 11th among the top 100 Russia’s universities.
- TOP-3 in Russia by number of international students (120 in QS).
The university’s mission is to train specialists capable of securing technological leadership across key industries and economic sectors, including digital engineering, energy, new materials and additive technologies, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, space technologies, and telecommunications.
Today, SPbPU hosts over 33,000 students, including more than 5,000 international students from 107 countries. The university employs 2,000 faculty members, with over 230 invited from abroad.
It's multidisciplinary approach offers a wide range of degree programs in Russian and English. For international applicants, SPbPU provides over 300 Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree programs, along with more than 70 research fields in PhD and DSc studies. Additionally, the university delivers English-taught Bachelor’s and Master’s programs tailored to global students.
Interesting facts about Polytech:
- SPbPU boasts a unique 120-ha campus – resembling a small town – modeled after the collegiate systems of Oxford and Cambridge.
- Out of 33,000 students at SPbPU, over 5,200 are international students from 107 countries.
- More than 200 international professors teach at the university annually.
- Throughout its history, SPbPU has graduated over 250,000 alumni.
- SPbPU is home to Russia’s second-most powerful supercomputer.
- SPbPU developed Russia’s first electric car, KAMA-1, created using digital twin technology.
- The university has undergone 15 name changes over its history.
Today, students from Morocco are already studying at the Polytechnic University in Russia. We have prepared for you a series of vivid interviews with Moroccan students who have already become part of the Polytechnic's extended family. In these conversations, the students share their impressions of the university, the international campus, the living conditions and, of course, the beautiful city of St. Petersburg.