The Autonomous Nonprofit Organization of Higher Education "Russian New University" (ANO IN RosNOU) was established in 1991.

It conducts educational activities on the basis of its license and state accreditation, valid until March 24, 2022.

RosNOU's current scientific adviser is Eugene A. Palkin, the winner of the USSR State Prize in the physical and mathematical sciences.

In 2007, Microsoft and the Russian New University (RosNOU) signed a "strategic cooperation agreement in the field of development of modern information technologies in the education system", aimed at the development of the Microsoft Education Alliance to expand the use of modern IT at the university.

By 2015, RosNOU received 14 patents and entered the top five Russian universities on the international scientometric index (h-index).