Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT) is one of the oldest institution of higher technical education in Russia founded in 1896. Today MIIT is the largest scientific and academic complex in Russia, the all-Russian leader in the field of training and retraining of staff specialists and scientific personnel for transport, transportation and transport construction industries. As of January 1, 2013 the overall number of students exceeded 118 thousand including those enrolled in programs of higher professional education (about 45 thousand students); and programs of secondary professional education ( over 19 thousand students). There are four academies in the University (Academy of Integrated Safety and Security, Academy of Transport Medicine, Russian Academy of Railway Engineering, and Russian Open Transport Academy), nine Institutes (Institute of Humanities, Institute of International Transport Communications, Institute of Track, Construction and Structures, Russian-German Institute, Institute of Transport Technics and Control Systems, Institute of Management and Information Technologies, Institute of Economics and Finance, Institute of Legal Studies, Institute of Applied Technologies), Research Institute of Transportation and Transport Construction, four Faculties (Faculty of extramural education, Faculty of pre-University education, Faculty of advanced professors` and lecturers` learning, Faculty of researchers` training), Moscow Railway College, Moscow high school, Medical College.