Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published its World University Rankings, according to which NSU takes the 18th place among the universities in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the 3rd place among the Russian universities in this ranking. Only MSU and St. Petersburg State University take higher positions this year. In comparison to the previous year, NSU has improved its position by 4 points, from the 22nd to the 18th place.
鈥楾he dynamics is positive,鈥� says the Rector Mikhail Fedoruk, 鈥榓nd it is a result of the team work. Our university is currently implementing the program of increasing its competitiveness in the world educational community. Such an upward leap, which has allowed us to appear among the top-20 best universities, means that we are moving in the right direction.鈥�
Among the 395 universities from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, QS has chosen 200 top performers. The leading positions are taken by Chinese universities 鈥� Tsinghua University and Peking University. The 3rd and the most successful of Russian universities is MSU. Other Russian universities in the top-20 are St. Petersburg State University (12th place) and NSU (18th place); then come more Russian universities - Moscow State Institute of International Relations or MGIMO-University (35th), Bauman Moscow State Technical University, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University and Tomsk State University (share 47th place), Moscow Phystech (52nd), National Research Nuclear University MEPhI or Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (57th) and National Research University - Higher School of Economics (58th).
The ranking takes into account eight major performance indicators usual for all QS ratings - it draws on two huge global surveys of academics and employers, combined with data on faculty/student ratio, research paper publications and citations, proportion of staff with a PhD, and percentages of international faculty and students.
