The Department of Blockchain of the Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) opens the first admission to postgraduate studies on distributed ledgers. The Postgraduate School will become the first public educational organization in Russia that is entirely dedicated to blockchain. The base organization of the department is the Idea Research Center, which is supported by Norilsk Nickel.
MIPT’s Master's degree in blockchain, launched in 2019 in partnership with Norilsk Nickel, has become Russia’s first training program on distributed ledger technology. During the existence of the department, the annual enrollment for the program was increased from 5 to 20 people. It also established connections with companies dealing with blockchain tech in their projects. In 2022, the blockchain post-graduate became the first Russian state training program to issue non-fungible tokens for its diplomas. In 2023, three students of the program graduated with distinction.
One of the main factors that influenced the decision to launch a postgraduate course was the growing demand from the Russian business community, which is in need of highly qualified specialists in the blockchain field.
"Industrial partners of our post-graduate course offer our students the complex applied and research tasks in the blockchain sector that encompass several fields of study - from mathematics and computer science to economics and even sociology. Many of those require very high-level specialists with both fundamental and applied knowledge, and our post-graduate course is aimed at nurturing the fitting specialists," said Vladimir Gorgadze, Head of the Blockchain Department at MIPT. He is also a co-founder of Atomyze tokenization platform and Newity IT company.
The course will be held at the Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics within the Computer Science and Informatics scientific specialty.
Theodor Lisovoy, Editor in Chief of the European bureau, Rough&Polished
