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.
The decision was made on the basis of the results of the meeting of the Council where the problem of increasing competitive ability of the top Russian universities among the primary scientific educational centres was discussed. The meeting was held on 5-6 July.
An open competition was announced on 8 May, 2013 after the Russian President鈥檚 decree 鈩� 599 of 7 May, 2012 guaranteeing that by 2020 not less than 5 Russian universities will have entered the first hundred of the top world鈥檚 universities according to the world ratings.
Russian universities submitted 54 applications for the competition, 36 universities were admitted. At the meeting of the Council the rectors of the universities presented their programmes that will help the universities to rank high in the world ratings.
As a result, the Council, considering the programmes and their potential for taking top positions in the world ratings, chose 15 universities which are to get the subsidy in 20 13. This year the general budget of the project will be 9 bn roubles.
To accelerate their competitive strategies the universities have planned to make joint educational programmes with foreign universities, to enlist foreign professors for teaching the students and to develop an international academic mobility of the students and university teachers Mikhail Fedoruk, Rector of NSU said,鈥漈hat NSU would be involved in the programme of increasing competitive strategies of the Russian universities, was anticipated. So, not only the programme has been made but also some projects are being realized. We tried to make the programme not only ambitious but also real. NSU aims first of all at QS ratings but after taking a correct stand the university is going to be a top university both in The Times and Shanghai ratings. NSU has an advantage of a close cooperation with the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the way to the world ratings. Besides, one of the most important points in the programme will be an interaction with the graduating students of NSU. NSU can and should have a concerted support of its successful graduating students creating a reputation needed for NSU鈥檚 advancement in the world ratings.鈥�
Not only NSU but also the Far Eastern Federal University, Kazan Federal University, Moscow Physical Technical Institute, the National Research Technical University 鈥淢ISiS鈥�, the National Research University 鈥淗igh School of Econo0mics鈥�, the National Nuclear Research University 鈥淢IFI鈥�, Nizhny Novgorod State University after N.I.Lobachevsky, Samara State Aerotechnical University after S.P.Korolyov, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University 鈥淟ETI鈥� after V.I.Ulianov (Lenin), Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnical University, Ural Federal University after the first Russian President B.N.Yeltsyn are to get the subsidy.
Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University didn鈥檛 submit the application as they have their own development programmes.
In September every selected university will have to submit 鈥渁 road map鈥� that will show what the money is going to be spent on.
