The first Russian textbooks in civil engineering were written there and large research laboratories with postgraduate courses were organized at that time.

Kuybyshev, and it held this title until 1993 when it was reorganized into Moscow State University of Civil Engineering.

In the 1960s and 1970s, new departments were established: "Heat and Energy Engineering," "Automated Systems of Construction Control," and others.

In 1988, the Education and Methodical Association for Civil Engineering Specialties was established on the basis of MISI.

It comprised 28 technical institutes of higher education and some 1000 industrial, polytechnic, technological civil engineering departments.

It is headed by the Rector of National Research University MGSU, Andrey Anatolyevich Volkov.