Overview
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU, ETU "LETI", ) is a public university. It was founded in 1886 as a Technical College. LETI, as it is popularly called, received the status of a higher education institution in 1899 and became known as Electrotechnical Institute. The University has programs in fields of radio engineering, telecommunications, control processes, computer engineering and IT, electronics, biomedical engineering, management, and linguistics.
In August 2016 ETU “LETI” became the part of the Project 5-100, a Russian academic excellence program seeking to bring five Russian universities into the top 100 in world rankings.
In 2023, the university was ranked #751-800 in the world by QS World University Rankings, and in 2022 it was ranked #1,201 by Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
History
Count Dmitry Tolstoy, Minister of Interior, submitted a draft of Provisional Regulations to the State Council and the staff of the Technical College. In 1886, Emperor Alexander III approved of the Provisional Regulations on the Technical College with a three-year term of study. On September 4, 1886, Technical College of the Postal and Telegraph Department was opened. Nikolai Pisarevsky, an engineer in the field of electrical communications, became the director of the school. The building of the former Telegraph Department (Novo-Isaakievskaya 18, now Yakubovicha Street) was allocated for the needs of the college. On June 11 (23), 1891, Emperor Alexander III signed a decree and renamed Technical College as Electrotechnical Institute (ETI) with a four-year term of study.
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