Shenzhen MSU–BIT University

The Shenzhen MSU–BIT University (SMBU) is a university (with independent legal entity registration) in Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is established in 2016 as a joint venture between the Beijing Institute of Technology and Moscow State University with funding support from Shenzhen Municipal Government.

The campus has received 2.04 billion yuan (US$318 million) in investment from the Shenzhen Municipal Government. Specially for the possibility of opening the university, changes were made to the Russian Federal Law "About Moscow State University Lomonosov and St. Petersburg State University". On 13 September 2017, vice premiers of the two countries – Olga Golodets and Liu Yandong — as well as delegations from each founders took part in the university's opening ceremony. Ceremony participants received high-level greetings.

The university is the first Sino-Russian cooperative university, the ninth Sino-foreign university in China, and the second Sino-foreign university in Shenzhen. It is a member of Sino-foreign Cooperative University Union.

Campus
The university campus is located in the southwest part of Longgang, Shenzhen, and covers a total of about 34-hectares. Its main building is very similar to that of Moscow State University.

More than half of the teaching faculty is from Lomonosov Moscow State University with Doctor of Sciences degrees of the Russian Federation and above. Education is in Russian, English and Chinese languages.

Departments
Six departments offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs:
 * Faculty of Philology
 * bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs (In Russian)
 * Faculty of Biology
 * bachelor's and doctoral programs (In Russian)
 * master's program (In English)
 * Faculty of Materials Science
 * bachelor's and master’s program (In Russian)
 * Faculty of Chemistry
 * bachelor's and master’s program (In Russian)
 * Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
 * bachelor's and master’s program (In Russian)
 * Faculty of Economics
 * bachelor's and master’s program (In Russian)