Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-electronics is a public university which was formed when two faculties, the Faculty of Radio Engineering and the Faculty of Electric Radio Control, split from Tomsk Polytechnic University to create a new educational institution. The mission of TUSUR as an entrepreneurial research university is "to create cultural, educational, research and innovative environment, ensuring achievement of success by alumni whose labor and knowledge guarantee that high technologies serve the country, society and the world". TUSUR is recognized nationally as one of the leading engineering universities in Russia. It carries out extensive basic and applied research in the area of its expertise and maintains close links to the industry, making it one of the highest-performing research universities in the country. It was founded in 1962 and is based in Tomsk, Russia.