Moscow Architectural Institute trains architects of wide-range specialization in Town- Planning, Architecture of Residental and Public Buildings, Architectural   Design, Architecture of Industrial Buildings, Architecture of Agricultural Complexes, Theory and History of Architecture, Restoration of Architectural Monuments, Interior Architecture, Landscaping. Moscow Architectural Institute language of education is Russian. The full course of studies lasts 6 years. But if you don’t have enough skills in Russian, Artistic and Technical Drawing, you’ll have to attend to a special Preparatory Course during one academic year before being accepted as a student.

Having completed the full course of studies students are qualified as architects and get the corresponding diploma. After 4 years students get the Bachelors Degree diploma.

The general guidance of the Institute is performed b the academic council, elected for a duration of 5 years. All disciplines of the academic program, in order to insure the acquisition of knowledge necessary to become an architect, architect-designer, architect-engineer are united into categories according to the architectural design, fine arts disciplines, humanities, engineering and technical disciplines. The teaching of each discipline in Moscow Architectural Institute is conducted by a professor member of  the teaching staff  of the appropriate Institute Department, or sub-division of the Institute which represents a principal academic and sub-division of the Moscow Architectural Institute.

A block of architectural design Departments accompany the student’s training from his 1st to 6th year. The main objective of the academic design, as the nucleus of an architectural education, is to channel  the entire complex of humanitarian, artistic and technical knowledge necessary for an architect into a professional language. All the architectural design Departments are undergraduate departments. These undergraduate departments The Basics of Architectural Design, Architecture of Residential Buildings, Architecture of Public Buildings, Architecture of Rural Settlements, Town Planning, Restoration and Reconstruction in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Theory of the Principles of Town Planning and Design of the Architectural Environment.
 
Regarding engineering and technical disciplines, the main efforts of the Engineering and Technical Departments are directed towards the active understanding of complex architectural design problems by introducing a constant dialogue, in which any specific information is subjected to architectural interpretation and any architectural problem is technically solved. Departments of engineering and technical block : Building Mechanics, Architectural Structures, Structural Engineering, Architectural Materials, Land Surveying,  Architectural Physics, Engineering Equipment, Engineering Preparation of Building  Sites and of Transportation, Descriptive Geometry and Architectural Practice.