MSU entered the top 25 most prestigious universities of the Earth – TOP News.RU

Two Russian State University and the University of St. Petersburg State University made the list of 100 most prestigious universities in the world.

 Two Russian university – Moscow State Lomonosov University (MSU) and Saint Petersburg State University (SPSU) – got a hundred rating of the most prestigious universities in the world, according to Tass.

 As reported on Thursday reputation rating, prepared by the British magazine Times Higher Education (THE), which specializes in education, MSU took 25 th place. It became the highest position that Moscow University has ever served in the rankings, developed annually since 2011. The flagship of the Russian higher education has taken off as compared to last year’s results, when the university was in a group of universities, share the place with the 51 th to 60 th.

 St. Petersburg State University became the rookie rankings, prepared on the basis of the responses of 10.5 thousand. Professors from 142 countries who have published scientific papers and working in this field for over 15 years. St. Petersburg State University was in a group of universities, ranked 71st to 80th.

 “For Russia, this is a good year in terms of reputational rankings because MSU climbed to 25th place, while another university entered the rankings. A good reputation in the world is very important because it helps universities and Russia as a whole to attract and retain talented people . But Russia, too, must be vigilant: among these beautiful reputational data and stiff objective methodology rating of the best universities in the world – a gaping chasm. Russia needs a lot of work on the protection of their global brands so that they are competitive on the world stage “, – said the editor rating Phil Betty, who was quoted by RIA Novosti.

 The first line of the rating, as in 2014, took the Harvard University. The rest of American schools have lost some of the leading positions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University have given way to second and third British universities – the University of Cambridge and Oxford respectively.