The School was founded as a growth point, focused on training PhD students and implementation of fundamental breakthrough research projects. Its targeted model is aimed at enhancing fundamental education and training of specialists in the modern areas of world science and technology. The educational process is based on the implementation of integrated graduate-postgraduate programs and individualization of academic tracks.

The School conducts interdisciplinary, fundamental and pilot studies in the following areas: physics of extreme states of matter, physics of high energies, physics of charged particle beams and radiation effects, and others. The University conducts these research projects in close cooperation with the leading Russian and international scientific collaborations at the Mega-science level, including CERN, DESY, ANKA, GlueX (JLab), and others.