The international information group "Interfax" presented the results of the leaders of the VII annual National Ranking of Universities at the end of 2015/2016 school year by parameters " Educational activities"and" Brand of the University ".

The brand of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. It is followed by the St. Petersburg state University and National research university High School of Economics.

The top ten also included the National Research University MIPT, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Uralsk federal university named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin and the Novosibirsk National Research State University.

Eighth and ninth places were taken Russian academy national economy and public service under the President and St. Petersburg politechnical University Peter the Great.

Kazan Federal University closes the top ten.

The experts reviewed 238 universities according to criteria such as selection of elites, communication with target audiences, media activity, perception of university research by the international scientific community, etc.

A special project of the Interfax Group was launched in 2009. Its goal is to develop new mechanisms for an independent assessment system russian universities.

Top 10 universities according to the parameter "Educational activity":

A place	University	Assessment
1		1000
2	Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU)	934
3		929
4		922
5		911
6		907
7	Russian University Friendship between nations	812
8		799
9		795
10	National Research Tomsk State University	752

Top 10 universities according to the parameter "The best brands of universities in Russia 2016":

A place	University	Assessment
1	Lomonosov Moscow State University	1000
2	Saint Petersburg State University	624
3	National Research University Higher School of Economics	552
4	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU)	359
5	National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI"	316
6	Ural Federal University	314
7	Novosibirsk National Research State University	309
8	Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation	289
9	Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University	260
10	Kazan Federal University	246

The full version of the ranking in the above areas is published on the website of the National University Ranking: www.univer-rating.ru.

Sources

Novosibirsk information and educational website (nios.ru), 01/06/2016

Top rated universities in Russia

The top 100 higher educational institutions in Russia in 2016, 2017 and 2018 are built in the ranking list based on the analysis of three parameters. The first assesses the quality of educational services, the second is the demand for graduates in the labor market, the third is the scientific work of the university.

Two other Moscow universities from the top 10 show stable results: the Higher School of Economics and MGIMO, slightly losing ground to the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman. In general, the prestige of Moscow is supported by at least 30 metropolitan universities, institutes and academies.

2018	2017	2016	name	link
1	1	1	Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov
2	2	2	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)
3	3	3	National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI"
4	4	5	Saint Petersburg State University
5	6	6	National Research University Higher School of Economics
6	5	7	Moscow state institute international relations (university) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
7	8	8	National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
8	9	9	Novosibirsk National Research State University
9	7	4	Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman
10	10	11	Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
11	11	12	Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
12	12	10	Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
13	14	13	National Research Tomsk State University
14	13	14	Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
15	19	19	Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
16	15	17	Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
17	16	15	Siberian Federal University
18	17	18	National Research Technological University "MISiS"
19	18	16	Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University) named after I.M. Gubkin
20	20	21	Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
21	23	25	Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov
22	21	22	First Moscow State medical University named after I.M. Sechenov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
23	24	27	Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
24	22	23	First Saint Petersburg State Medical University named after academician I.P. Pavlova of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
25	25	20	National Research University "MPEI"
26	28	28	National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky
27	32	35	Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
28	34	37	Far Eastern Federal University
29	29	30	All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
30	30	31	South Federal University
31	26	24	Novosibirsk State Technical University
32	27	-	Moscow State Linguistic University
33	33	29	Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
34	35	45	North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosova
35	31	26	Samara National Research University named after academician S.P. Queen
36	38	39	Moscow State Law University named after O.E. Kutafina (Moscow State Law Academy)
37	39	34	Siberian State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
38	37	32	Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
39	41	36	St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" V.I.Ulyanova (Lenin)
40	47	53	National Research Moscow State university of construction
41	48	55	Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev-KAI
42	40	40	Russian state pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen
43	45	42	Voronezh State University
44	36	33	Saint Petersburg Mining University
45	43	43	Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
46	50	51	Samara State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
47	44	46	North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
48	42	41	Russian state humanitarian University
49	55	69	Moscow State Pedagogical University
50	46	47	Altai State University
51	59	59	Belgorod State National Research University
52	49	52	Samara State Technical University
53	56	65	University "Dubna"
54	57	48	Ufa State Petroleum Technical University
55	60	67	Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhova
56	52	38	Tyumen industrial university
57	51	50	Moscow State Technological University STANKIN
58	54	44	Russian University of Chemical Technology named after D.I. Mendeleev
59	63	64	Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
60	70	63	Perm National Research Polytechnic University
61	53	49	Voronezh State Medical University named after N.N. Burdenko of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
62	66	57	South Ural State University (National Research University)
64	58	60	National Research University "MIET"
65	73	85	Stavropol State agrarian university
66	64	-	Moscow Automobile and Highway State Technical University (MADI)
67	62	56	National Research Mordovian State University named after N.P. Ogaryova
68	67	62	Ural State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
69	78	97	South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) named after M.I. Platova
70	85	96	Tyumen State University
71	74	81	Kursk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
72	69	66	Volgograd State University
73	90	91	Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics
74	61	58	Moscow University of Transport
75	71	78	Tomsk State Pedagogical University
76	-	-	State University of Management
77	86	-	Tambov State Technical University
78	82	72	Altai State Technical University named after I.I. Polzunova
79	81	87	Saratov Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
80	72	79	Ryazan State Medical University named after academician I.P. Pavlova of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
81	97	-	Tomsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
82	83	-	Petrozavodsk State University
83	87	-	Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov
84	68	54	Kazan National Research Technological University
85	93	95	Tyumen State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
86	-	-	Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazeva
87	79	68	Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky
88	99	94	Volgograd State Technical University
89	76	61	Izhevsk State Technical University named after M.T. Kalashnikov
90	94	99	Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
91	92	-	Ufa State Aviation Technical University
92	-	-	University of Technology
93	-	-	Don State Technical University
94	95	-	Bashkir State University
95	91	82	Southwestern State University
96	98	98	Russian New University
97	-	-	North Caucasus Federal University
98	-	-	Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after Kh.M. Berbekova
99	-	-	Moscow Polytechnic University
100	-	-	Voronezh State Technical University
-	65	76	Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseeva
-	75	73	Volgograd State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
-	77	70	Omsk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
-	80	-	Moscow Technological University
-	84	92	Omsk State Technical University
-	88	84	Irkutsk National Research Technical University
-	89	-	Pyatigorsk State University
-	96	100	Kuban State Technological University
-	100	90	Saint Petersburg State technological Institute (Technical University)

The British edition of Times Higher Education (THE) has published the next ranking of the best universities in the world - World University Rankings 2016-2017. THE is one of the largest international studies academic reputation and covers more than ten thousand educational institutions around the world.

The level of achievement of universities is assessed based on the results of a combination of statistical analysis of their activities, audited data, as well as the results of an annual global expert survey of representatives of the international academic community and employers who express their views on universities. The analysis of the activities of educational institutions consists of 13 indicators. The main assessment criteria are international student and teaching mobility, the number of international scholarship programs, the level scientific research, contribution to innovation, citations scientific works, the level of educational services, and so on.

This year, 980 educational institutions were ranked. The first place in the ranking was taken by the University of Oxford (UK). Further in the top ten: California Institute of Technology (USA), Stanford University (USA), Cambridge university (UK), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Harvard University (USA), Princeton University (USA), Imperial College London (UK), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Switzerland), University of California Berkeley (USA).

The United States of America continues to dominate, but this year it continues to lose ground. For the first time in the 12-year history of the ranking, a European university (British Oxford University) took first place, and thus the United States lost its status as the state where the best university in the world is located. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich also strengthened its position in the TOP-10, being in ninth place for the second year in a row. Last year, this university became the first non-Anglo-American institution to be included in the top ten universities in the world over the past ten years. Among the representatives of Europe top scores showed Germany thanks to its institutions that carry out influential research. Of the 41 universities in Germany included in the ranking, 22 universities were in the TOP-200 and nine - in the TOP-100. Also, all 13 leading Dutch universities, actively engaged in scientific research, entered the TOP-200, and this is the first time this elite group has entered this elite group.

At the same time, European universities show a mixed picture in the ranking, increasingly yielding positions under the growing onslaught of Asia, which is showing real and steady growth in the ranking. The current ranking includes 290 Asian universities from 24 countries, and an elite group of 19 universities hit the TOP-200, while six European universities dropped out of the TOP-200. Peking University of China joined the TOP-30, ranking 29th (up from 42nd last year). Five out of six representatives of Hong Kong entered the TOP-200, which is more than all other representatives of the Asian region. South Korea has also made great strides. National University of Singapore, the best university in Asia, is in a record 24th place. Interestingly, many of the developing countries in the rankings are looking to follow in the footsteps of their Asian counterparts and build premier universities that can rival the best in the world.

This year's expanded ranking of universities in the world includes 24 Russian universities, 11 of which were included in the ranking for the first time. The leader among Russian universities remains the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), which took 188th place in the global ranking. Russia this year took 24th place in the expanded list of the best universities in the world. The leading University of Russia - Lomonosov Moscow State University - remains in the TOP-200 at the 188th place, and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has risen to the level of 301–350. It is also nice to see how ITMO University and the Higher School of Economics make their debut on the list - at levels 351–400 and 401–500, respectively.

Ranking of the best universities in the world 2016-2017

Times Higher Education: THE World University Rankings 2016–2017.

Rating	University		Country
1	University of Oxford	Oxford University	United Kingdom
2	California Institute of Technology	California Institute of Technology	USA
3	Stanford University	Stanford University	USA
4	University of Cambridge	Cambridge university	United Kingdom
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
6	Harvard University	Harvard University	USA
7	Princeton University	Princeton University	USA
8	Imperial College London	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
9	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
10	University of California, Berkeley	University of California at Berkeley	USA
10	University of Chicago	University of Chicago	USA
12	Yale University	Yale university	USA
13	University of Pennsylvania	University of Pennsylvania	USA
14	University of California, Los Angeles	University of California Los Angeles	USA
15	University College London	University College London	United Kingdom
16	Columbia University	Columbia University	USA
17	Johns Hopkins University	Johns Hopkins University	USA
18	Duke University	Duke University	USA
19	Cornell University	Cornell University	USA
20	Northwestern University	Northwestern University	USA
21	University of Michigan	University of Michigan	USA
22	University of Toronto	University of Toronto	Canada
23	Carnegie Mellon University	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
24	National University of Singapore	National University of Singapore	Singapore
25	London School of Economics and Political Science	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
25	University of Washington	University of Washington	USA
27	University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh University	United Kingdom
28	Karolinska Institute	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
29	Peking University	Peking University	China
30	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne	Switzerland
30	LMU Munich	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany
32	New York University	New York University	USA
33	Georgia Institute of Technology	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
33	University of Melbourne	University of Melbourne	Australia
35	Tsinghua University	Tsinghua University	China
36	University of British Columbia	University of British Columbia	Canada
36	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	USA
36	King's College London	King's College London	United Kingdom
39	University of Tokyo	University of Tokyo	Japan
40	KU Leuven		Belgium
41	University of California, San Diego	University of California San Diego	USA
42	McGill University	McGill University	Canada
43	Heidelberg University	Heidelberg University	Germany
43	University of Hong Kong	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
45	University of Wisconsin-Madison	University of Wisconsin Madison	USA
46	Technical University of Munich	Munich Technical University	Germany
47	Australian National University	Australian National University	Australia
48	University of California, Santa Barbara	University of California Santa Barbara	USA
49	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
50	University of Texas at Austin	University of Texas at Austin	USA
51	Brown University	Brown University	USA
51	University of California, Davis	University of California Davis	USA
53	University of Minnesota	University of Minnesota	USA
54	Nanyang Technological University	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
55	University of Manchester	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
56	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
57	Humboldt University of Berlin	Humboldt University Berlin	Germany
57	Washington University in St Louis	Washington University in St. Louis	USA
59	Delft University of Technology	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
60	University of Queensland	University of Queensland	Australia
60	University of Southern California	University of Southern California	USA
60	University of Sydney	University of Sydney	Australia
63	University of Amsterdam	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
64	Boston University	Boston University	USA
65	Wageningen University and Research Center	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands
66	École Normale Supérieure	Higher Pedagogical School	France
67	University of Maryland, College Park	University of Maryland at College Park	USA
68	Pennsylvania State University	Pennsylvania State University	USA
69	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
70	Purdue University	Purdue University	USA
71	University of Bristol	Bristol University	United Kingdom
72	Ohio State University	Ohio State University	USA
72	Seoul National University	Seoul National University	South Korea
74	Monash University	Monash University	Australia
75	Free University of Berlin	Free University of Berlin	Germany
76	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
77	Leiden University	Leiden University	Netherlands
78	University of New South Wales	University of New South Wales	Australia
78	RWTH Aachen University	Rhine-Westphalian Technical University Aachen	Germany
80	University of Groningen	University of Groningen	Netherlands
80	University of Pittsburgh	University of Pittsburgh	USA
82	Dartmouth College	Dartmouth College	USA
82	Emory University	Emory University	USA
82	Technical University of Berlin	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
82	University of Warwick	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
86	Utrecht University	Utrecht University	Netherlands
87	Rice University	Rice University	USA
88	University of Glasgow	Glasgow University	United Kingdom
89	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Korea Institute of Advanced Technology KAIST	South Korea
89	University of Tübingen	University of Tubingen	Germany
91	University of Helsinki	University of Helsinki	Finland
91	Kyoto University	Kyoto University	Japan
93	Uppsala University	Uppsala University	Sweden
94	Maastricht University	Maastricht University	Netherlands
95	University of Freiburg	Freiburg University	Germany
96	Durham University	Durham University	United Kingdom
96	Lund University	Lund University	Sweden
98	Aarhus University	Aarhus University	Denmark
98	University of Basel	Basel University	Switzerland
98	University of California, Irvine	University of California at Irvine	USA
101	Michigan State University	Michigan State University	USA
102	University of Mannheim	University of Mannheim	Germany
103	University of Montreal	University of Montreal	Canada
104	Georgetown University	Georgetown University	USA
104	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
106	University of Zurich	University of Zurich	Switzerland
107	University of Alberta	University of Alberta	Canada
108	Vanderbilt University	Vanderbilt University	USA
109	University of Sheffield	Sheffield University	United Kingdom
110	University of Bern	University of Bern	Switzerland
110	University of St Andrews	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
112	University of Göttingen	University of Göttingen	Germany
113	University of Bonn	University of Bonn	Germany
113	McMaster University	McMaster University	Canada
113	Queen Mary University of London	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom
116	University of Colorado Boulder	University of Colorado Boulder	USA
116	École Polytechnique	Polytechnic school	France
118	Ghent University	University of Ghent	Belgium
119	City University of Hong Kong	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
120	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen University	Denmark
121	Pierre and Marie Curie University	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
121	Radboud University Nijmegen	University of Nijmegen	Netherlands
121	University of Southampton	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
121	University of Virginia	University of Virginia	USA
125	University of Western Australia	University of Western Australia	Australia
126	Case Western Reserve University	Case Western Reserve University	USA
126	University of Exeter	Exeter University	United Kingdom
128	Université Catholique de louvain	Leuven Catholic University	Belgium
129	University of York	York University	United Kingdom
130	University of Birmingham	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
131	Arizona State University	Arizona State University	USA
132	University of Oslo	Oslo University	Norway
133	University of Leeds	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
134	University of Florida	Florida University	USA
135	Tufts University	Tufts University	USA
135	Ulm University	Ulm University	Germany
137	University of Geneva	University of Geneva	Switzerland
137	Lancaster University	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
137	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Graduate School of Pisa	Italy
137	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	Songgyungwan University	South Korea
141	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	H. Rutgers State University of New Jersey	USA
142	University of Adelaide	University of Adelaide	Australia
143	University of Notre Dame	University of Notre Dame	USA
144	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
144	Stockholm University	Stockholm University	Sweden
146	University of California, Santa Cruz	University of California, Santa Cruz	USA
147	University of Nottingham	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
148	University of Cape Town	University of Cape Town	South Africa
149	University of Sussex	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
150	Indiana University	Indiana State University	USA
151	University of Lausanne	Lausanne University	Switzerland
151	University of Rochester	University of Rochester	USA
153	University of Science and Technology of China	University of Science and Technology of China	China
153	University of Twente	University of Twente	Netherlands
155	Fudan University	Fudan University	China
156	University of Arizona	University of Arizona	USA
156	VU University Amsterdam	Free University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
158	University of Liverpool	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
159	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
160	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Erlangen University of Nuremberg	Germany
161	University of Münster	University of Munster	Germany
161	University of Vienna	University of Vienna	Austria
163	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
164	TU Dresden	Dresden University of Technology	Germany
165	University of Auckland	University of Auckland	New Zealand
165	University of California, Riverside	University of California at Riverside	USA
165	University of East Anglia	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
165	University of Massachusetts	University of Massachusetts	USA
169	Texas A&M University	Texas A&M University	USA
170	University of Cologne	University of Cologne	Germany
170	University of Gothenburg	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
172	University of Leicester	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
173	Royal Holloway, University of London	Royal Holloway University of London	United Kingdom
173	University of Waterloo	University of Waterloo	Canada
175	Pompeu Fabra University	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
176	Technical University of Denmark	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
177	Eindhoven University of Technology	Eindhoven University	Netherlands
178	University of Luxembourg	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
179	Paris-Sud University	University Paris-South XI	France
180	University of Dundee	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
180	University of Hamburg	Hamburg University	Germany
182	Cardiff University	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
182	University of Miami	University of Miami	USA
182	Northeastern University	Northeastern University	USA
182	University of the Witwatersrand	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
186	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
186	University of Würzburg	University of Würzburg	Germany
188	University of Aberdeen	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
188	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
190	Newcastle University	University of Newcastle	United Kingdom
190	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna	Graduate School of University Education Saint Anne	Italy
192	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
192	University of Reading	University of Reading	United Kingdom
194	University of Konstanz	University of Constanta	Germany
195	University of Calgary	University of Calgary	Canada
195	National Taiwan University	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
197	University of Duisburg-Essen	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
198	Brandeis University	Brandeis University	USA
198	Tilburg University	Tilburg University	Netherlands
200	University of Illinois at Chicago	University of Illinois at Chicago	USA

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National University Rankings - 2016: there is something to strive for

In modern realities, higher education ceases to be an intrinsic value, becoming an object of multi-level communication. The applicant, the employer, the scientific community, and finally, the state - each of the participants in this communication has its own interests and tasks. The creation of the National Ranking of Universities (NRU), an independent analytical project aimed at making a system higher education flexible, efficient and evolving according to international standards.

International context

The trend towards globalization that swept the economy and political systems touched higher education in 1999, when the Bologna Declaration was signed. This marked the beginning of the process of creating the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

The main principles of the declaration: transparency and comparability - formed the basis for modernization: the levels of higher education in all countries were to become as similar as possible, and the scientific degrees issued based on the results of education - equivalent. In practice, this was expressed in a modular training system, special supplements to the diploma, etc.

Russia joined the Bologna Process in 2003, a couple of years later Ukraine joined it, in 2010 - Kazakhstan, and in 2015 - Belarus.

The process launched by the international community demanded internal differentiation. As a result, international university rankings began to appear. The first was The Times Higher Education, followed by the rankings created by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) agency. The Times rankings are based on research volume and income, number of publications and citation levels, and international faculty and students. In the QS version, the emphasis is on academic reputation, citation of teachers, the reputation of the university among employers, the number of foreign teachers and students. The Academic Ranking of World Universities closes the top three rankings. It takes into account alumni and employees - laureates Nobel Prize and the Fields Awards, faculty and researchers with the highest citation rates, overall citation indices and citation rates per employee, and the number of publications in Nature and Science.

At the moment, the number of international ratings has exceeded 50. All of them differ in varying degrees of objectivity and volume of criteria. In Russia, an objective assessment is possible thanks to the National University Ranking.

Olga Vasilyeva, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Any rating is an attempt at an independent assessment: independent of the state authorities, and we support this proposal. We have great achievements in the higher education system, which we should not hesitate to talk about, good scientific projects, the only problem is that not everyone knows about everything.

Russian realities

For the first time, the need for a public assessment of the quality of education and the formation of university ratings in Russia was discussed in the 2000s. At this time, there was a realization that for sustainable economic development of the country it is necessary to invest in human resources, which means that a competitive and flexible education system is needed.

The first reformers appeared in the academic environment, in the public administration of education, professional communities began to emerge that tried to find mechanisms to influence universities and the educational system as a whole.

In 2001, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation initiated the development of a methodology for rating universities by order No. 631 of February 26, 2001 "On the rating of higher educational institutions." Despite its innovativeness, this rating was focused on the educational side of the process and quantitative data on the performance of universities and only slightly took into account the interests of employers, professional communities, applicants and students.

The latter tried to partially compensate for the National Accreditation Agency (NAA), which carried out a large-scale work to collect data on the activities of universities, including taking into account the indicators of the demand for graduates in the labor market and the presence of employer reviews.

Among other significant projects of that time, the table of leagues of Russian universities, compiled by public organization “Business of Russia”, as well as several dozen ratings prepared and published by the specialized agency “ReitOR”.

Almost a decade later, the criteria were finally formulated by which the rating should be made: the assessment should be independent (carried out by a specialized non-profit organization), the results should be publicly available so that applicants, employers and federal authorities can use them when making decisions education. In fact, it was necessary to form a link between the answers to the questions "where to go to study?", "Where to invite specialists to work?", "In which educational and research institutions and organizations to invest funds more efficiently?"

In 2009, as a result of competitive procedures, Inform-Invest CJSC (a subsidiary of Interfax) signed a state contract with Federal Agency on education of the Russian Federation on the development of the foundations of an independent assessment system and formation of ratings of Russian universities Practice has shown that the undertaking was successful, and the proposed assessment methodology was effective and flexible.

Goals and objectives of the National Ranking

The global goal of the project is to modernize the higher education system in accordance with the requirements of the present, creating reliable mechanisms for regulation and quality assessment within this system - both in terms of the competencies acquired by graduates and in the field of innovations, research and social services provided by universities.

The project stimulates competition between universities, which generally affects the increase of their competitiveness in the global educational and research space.

As the main tasks, the rating solves not only image issues (increases the prestige of the national educational system), but also information issues: it stimulates the information openness of universities, encourages the development of communication between universities and the target audience, and provides employers with information about the training and qualifications of graduates. And besides, it helps to develop the brands of the university (this category of assessment appeared in the NRU in recent times, the first ratings did not contain it) and assess the value of the university's intangible assets, the level of commercialization of its developments.

Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Alexander Povalko

One of the main tasks for us at this stage is to provide universities with all the necessary mechanisms for the formation of long-term stable partnerships with the world's leading research and educational centers, directly participating in the formation of “big science”. This will certainly strengthen Russian research and development and provide results that our society and business are interested in.

NRU - 2016

The total number of universities participating in the 2016 ranking is 238: this number includes 2 national universities; 10 federal universities; 29 national research universities; 11 flagship universities; 66 classical universities (including 1 private); 57 technical and technological universities (including architectural and construction, transport, mining and 1 non-state); eleven economic universities (including 2 non-governmental); 24 agricultural universities; 10 pedagogical and linguistic universities; 13 medical universities.

Higher education institutions were assessed in the following categories: education, research, socialization (social environment), internationalization, entrepreneurship and innovation. The assessment was carried out on the basis of questionnaires sent by universities, as well as on the results of materials published on the websites of universities, and data from the latest monitoring of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The three leaders in the Education category are Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman (MSTU) and Novosibirsk National Research State University (NSU). The latter two have pushed aside the Moscow National Research Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), which last year ranked second and third.

The best research centers were recognized as Moscow State University, NRNU MEPhI and MIPT. But the Novosibirsk National Research State University (NSU) this year lost its positions in the top 3, dropping to 4th place.

It should be noted that this year the assessment methodology in the research category has undergone changes: a 1000-point system was introduced instead of a 10-point one, and the rating itself is formed on the basis of 8 particular indicators, which include an assessment of the range of educational programs implemented by the university, the university's contribution to the formation of the country's scientific and educational elite, the level of organization of high-performance computing and computer modeling, scientific productivity, the level of development of computer technologies and their application in research activities, etc.

MOSCOW, December 15 - RIA Novosti. The national rating of Russian universities, which shows their relevance on the part of the Russian economy, was presented on Thursday, December 15 by the project "Social Navigator" MIA "Russia Today".

The study included 446 universities from 82 regions of the country. The assessment of universities was carried out according to such criteria as the demand for trained specialists by employers, the commercialization of the intellectual product produced by the university, as well as the demand for a research product (methodology).

The ranking of the demand for universities included state, departmental, municipal and private universities that trained personnel in basic and additional programs higher education. Among them - 132 engineering universities, 89 classical universities, 57 agricultural universities, 53 universities from the field of management, 68 humanitarian universities and 47 medical universities. The study did not include branches, higher spiritual educational establishments, universities of the sphere of culture and military profile.

Among engineering universities ( technical universities), which are most widely represented in this study, the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI is in the lead. The second line of the ranking is occupied by the St. Petersburg National Research University information technologies, mechanics and optics. The third place is taken by the Samara State Technical University.

The leader of the ranking among classical universities, as in the previous year, became the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. The second place is taken by the National Research Tomsk State University, which took the third position last year. The Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, who, compared to last year, rose by 5 positions at once.

Stavropol State Agrarian University and Kuban State Agrarian University are leading in the nomination "agricultural universities", as in the previous year.

Among the universities of economic, financial and legal profile, the leaders in terms of demand were the Russian School of Economics, the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, International University nature, society and man "Dubna". The National Research University Higher School of Economics has left the top three, moving down to fourth place.

The first places among humanitarian (pedagogical and philological) universities were taken by the Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University, the Moscow City Pedagogical University and the Orthodox St. Tikhon University for the Humanities.

In nomination " medical universities"the leaders are the IM Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy and the Siberian State Medical University.

According to Natalya Tyurina, the head of the project "Social Navigator" MIA "Russia Today", this study is of great interest not only among employers, but also among Russian applicants who are building their own educational choice understanding where they will work after graduation. “When making their choice in favor of this or that university, in the first place they put not so much the brand of the university as the opportunity to get a profession in demand,” she said, adding that this explains the success of this ranking, which was first presented by “Social Navigator "last year, and immediately demonstrated extremely high readability.

As the expert noted, the study showed that at present in the Russian regions one can get no less demanded education than in the capital. At the same time, according to Natalya Tyurina, in modern conditions, universities need, on the one hand, to maximally turn towards the labor market and the employer, and, on the other, to build serious career guidance work with high school students.

As the results of this study have shown, agricultural universities of the country are in the lead in terms of the ratio of "the proportion of graduates who received a job placement" - more than 70% of graduates are assigned to work. The least demanded by employers are graduates of universities in the sphere of management (on average, about 25%).

According to the indicator "the share of funds in the university budget from scientific research", as one would expect, engineering universities of the country are in the lead. The share of their income from the commercialization of intellectual products is on average about 17% of the budgets of universities, while agricultural and medical universities receive no more than 8% of the income.

If we consider the "index of citation of the works of the organization's employees," then the gap between different types of universities is not so obvious: the maximum indicators are in classical universities (13.52%), and the minimum - in humanitarian ones (9.62%).

Experts believe that such a tripartite assessment shows service consumers high school, what are the chances of getting training that ensures competitiveness in the labor market, and also demonstrates the effectiveness of attracting the university to solving the problems of developing organizations, sectors of the economy and territories.

Scientific director of the Volga branch of the Federal Institute for the Development of Education, scientific director of this study, Efim Kogan, commenting on the results of the ranking, expressed the opinion that the connection of higher education with enterprises in modern conditions of a market economy is possible only if there is market behavior of the universities themselves.

“In reality, this is not happening: universities do not see themselves as full-fledged market agents and business entities,” he told RIA Novosti, adding that universities do not have their own infrastructure capable of professionally interacting with enterprises and government bodies management. In his opinion, universities are inertly involved in municipal and regional construction, are poorly immersed in the social, economic and cultural structures of their regions.

At the same time, according to Efim Kogan, universities are the unification of the intellectual resource of territories, and effective use of this resource would benefit everyone. "On the one hand, universities would have additional income, and on the other, they would form intellectual products that change the economy, production and technology," the expert emphasized.