Russian universities have improved position in the ranking of universities in the world – RBC

Russian universities have improved their position in the ranking of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), and increased presence in the top 400 from five to eight. The results are published on the official website of the company.

According to information received, in the top 400 included eight Russian universities instead of five, as it was a year earlier. The leader of the Russian universities was the Moscow State University named after MV University, which has retained its position 108. It is followed by St. Petersburg State University, which increased backlog and took 258 th place. The third place among national universities ranked Novosibirsk State University – 291 place

At the top eight Russian universities also included the Bauman Technical University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology University, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (. MGIMO), Tomsk State University and Tomsk Polytechnic University.

The drafters of the rating note that this result was achieved by Russian universities, including through the state project “5-100 . “, which implements the decree of the President on the progress of Russian universities in the world rankings in 2020

also, the research firm added that national universities have” a serious weak spot “- research activity and the proportion citing Russian scientists.

As explained in the commentary, “Kommersant,” the regional director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia QS Zoya Zaitseva, “Russians are historically very weak in this indicator, expect a revolutionary break here would be a little optimistic. ”

According to her, the rating compilers of abandoned previously used the practice of limiting the number of co-authors of the study ten organizations, which affected the drop in Russian universities in the ranking. Instead, researchers have developed a system of coefficients to account for citing articles on various branches of science.