YEKATERINBURG, October 1. / TASS /. Ural Federal University for the first time entered the authoritative ranking Times Higher Education, reported today in the press service of the university.
“39% due to the increase of citing increased influence of scientists UrFU the development of science in selected areas, – the press service quoted the rector of the Ural Federal University Victor Koksharov. – At the same time significantly reduced self-citation – link university scientists to his colleagues at the University – that was the result of increasing the number of research projects with leading global educational and research centers. ”
Compilers ranking Times Higher Education take into account the successful involvement of the University of external financing due to large projects. Since many research projects are carried out in conjunction with companies, university was praised in terms of the amount of funding received from the industry. Moreover, participating in the program to increase the global competitiveness of Russian universities, university affects the competitiveness of the industry of the Ural region. All this, according to Viktor Koksharov, allows the university to expect a gradual improvement of the positions in the future.
In the ranking this year, Ural University moved – he moved from the group with a high intensity of research (High) in the group, where it is considered to be very high (Very High), which is the highest assessment of the scientific activities of the university. The university is part of the “Top 500+” Shanghai ranking.
The rating of THE includes 13 Russian universities. Higher line in the list of them took the Moscow State University (MGU). He added just 35 positions compared to last year’s ranking and is located on the 161-th place. St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Peter the Great entered the range of 201-250, Tomsk Polytechnic University (251-300), the Kazan Federal University (301-350), National Research Nuclear University MEPI (301-350).
Novosibirsk State University, St. Petersburg State University entered the group of 401-500, Bauman Moscow State Technical University (501-600). The group of 601-800 but UrFU entered Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the National Research Technological University “MISA”, Southern Federal University, Tomsk State University.
The editor rating Phil Batey said, “tremendous progress” Russian universities, which he explains the current program in Russia “5-100″. It aims to ensure that by 2020 at least five Russian universities entered the top 100 of the world’s leading centers of higher education.
“Russian universities show a very impressive progress”, – he said in an interview with Tass, noting that Russia looks strong and, compared with most of the countries BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). Although the Russian high schools on the list is less than that of China (37), India and Brazil (17 each), Russian universities are generally higher rates than Indian or Brazilian training centers.
International ranking of universities World Times Higher Education (or “THE World University Rankings”) is one of the most influential and global. It is calculated by the method of the British newspaper “Times Higher Education” with the assistance of information group Thomson Reuters and published every year since 2010.
An analysis of the activities of higher education institutions consists of 13 indicators, combined into five areas of measurement: teaching, internationalization, revenue from industry, research and citation. The level of achievements of the university is evaluated on the basis of a combination of statistical analysis of their activity, audited data and the results of the annual global expert survey of representatives of the international academic community and employers to express their views about universities.
Urfa – the country’s largest federal University, which has about 50,000 full-time students and part-time offices. The university offers about 400 directions and specialties of higher education in the humanities, engineering, natural and social sciences, mathematics and computer science, economics and management.
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