According to the international rating Webometrics, NSU became the fourth university of Russia after Moscow State University (MSU), Saint Petersburg State University (SPSU) and Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute.
In September 2013 the company Yandex set up a School of Data Analysis (SDA) for the students of NSU.
NSU is one of 15 Russian universities that have won in the competition the right to get a subsidy that will favour the university advancement in the world ratings.
Ust-Poluy sanctuary has made Yamal archaeologists happy again. According to Andrei Gusev, the head of the expedition, among this years finds is a bronze ring with an image of a bear
The results of monitoring of quality of budgetary admittance to Russian State universities in 2013, conducted by the Higher School of Economics and RIA News, were summarized.
The Summer School of the Specialized Educational Scientific Centre (SESC) at NSU has begun its work. It is the 52 Summer School of SESC at NSU. About 600 schoolchildren from different regions of the Russian Federation have arrived at the School.
Students will study not only the art and culture of Asian and African countries but also the history, literature, ethnology, philosophy and religion of the peoples of this extensive region as well as works by historian-orientalists and philologist-orientalists.
The meeting was also attended by the NSU President Mikhail P. Fedoruk, the deputy minister a secretary of Novosibirsk regional commission of the Presidential program Marina I. Ananich, and the head of the Presidential Program Alumni Association of the Novosibirsk region Sergey V. Chesnokov.
An international group of scientists including graduates of 勛圖夥厙 has won a prize for conducting a scientific experiment to prove that it was Mikhail Lomonosov who first discovered Venuss atmosphere.
In the Korean language section NSU students won 2 top places: Anna Grudinina (a 2nd year student of the Humanities Department) took the 2nd place among beginners and Oksana Aradjioni (a 3rd year student in the Humanities Department) the 3rd place in the senior group. Anton Kholodov and Artemy Pirozhkov were also awarded special prizes by the jury.
In April 2011, NSU and Heilongjiang University signed an agreement resulting in the cooperation between the universities becoming one of NSUs most important international projects.
NSUs Rector Mikhail Fedoruk and the director of the Novosibirsk branch of the Parallels Company Andrei Loveiko opened the NSU Winter School.