MIIT dates back to 1896 when on the command of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II Moscow Engineering school was founded. The University is a base institution in Education and Methodology Association in the field of railway transport and transport construction. Every year about 25,000 top managers and specialists take professional development courses in MIIT.\The University comprises seven Institutes:\(The Institute of Rail Track, Construction and Structures; the Institute of Control Systems, Telecommunication and Electrification; the Institute of Transport Engineering and Operations Management ; the Institute of Rail Operation and Information Technologies; Economics and Finance Institute; the Institute of Humanities; Law Institute ), the Russian Academy of Transport, Medical College and Gymnasium,\There are also four faculties:\- The Faculty of Ecological Safety;\- Part time Programs Faculty;\- Military Training Faculty;\- The Faculty of Pre-university Training\The University also includes: Coordination and Analytical Centre for Training Scientific and Academic Staff and Transport Specialists, International Academic Mobility Centre, Regional Centre for Testing School-leavers, Linguistic Centre and the Centre for Supplementary Training in Transport Designing.\MIIT is the centre of University Academic community which comprises 59 educational institutions of different levels from 16 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The total area of the University is 224.5 thousand square meters.\MIIT has 54 buildings, twelve of which are educational ones. It provides students with 7 hostels, the University Community Centre, and the Sports Centre.\MIIT can boast one of the largest University libraries in Moscow with more than 2.5 million books, its status being an extra-category one.\Corporate computer network (Internet/Intranet) has been developed at the University for about 1,000 users among which are the departments, research and academic laboratories.