The mission of Moscow City University as a metropolitan institution is to be of service to the city and its citizens.

As a large educational, research and cultural center, MCU offers to the citizens of Moscow a wide variety of opportunities to learn and unleash their creative potential, to gain personal and professional fulfillment.

We seek to provide a comprehensive educational system that trains students for life and work in a big city, using its infrastructure, facilities, and resources, and combining educational practices with the objectives aimed at the city’s development.

This means that we place emphasis on helping students to harness the skills required for efficient living in a metropolis, such as:

Our core activities are aimed at catering to the city’s needs, and ensuring development and sustainability of the city by:

1. Improving education quality

2. Promoting innovate research

3. Updating youth policy

4. Recruiting talented top-skill professionals

5. Creating a close-knit community of students and alumni

6. Providing high quality management

7. Upgrading facilities and resources of the university

8. Developing financial activities

9. Representing the university within the local, national and international education communities