On improving the competitiveness of higher education institutions have allocated almost 11 billion rubles – Sight

The Russian government has allocated 21 Russian universities grants totaling almost 11 billion rubles, the press service of the Cabinet.

«signed a decree approved by the distribution in 2016 of subsidies from the federal budget in the amount of 10.927 billion rubles, 21 university within the subprogram “Development of vocational education” state program “Development of education” for 2013-2020 “, – reported on the website of the Cabinet.

«In order to implement the tasks of ensuring the entry in 2020 of at least five Russian universities in the first hundred of the world’s leading universities in the world according to the list provided by the Government of government support in 2013, selected based on the results of the competition’s leading universities of Russia”, – said in a statement.

It is stated that “the decision on granting of state accepted the Ministry of Education on the basis of the Council’s recommendations to improve the competitiveness of Russia’s leading universities among the world’s leading research and education centers.”

Three groups of universities, which receive subsidies. At 900 million rubles allocated to Kazan (Volga) Federal University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), National Research Technological University “MISA”, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”, Novosibirsk national research state University, St. Petersburg state University of information technologies, mechanics and optics.

According to the 511 million rubles – the Far Eastern Federal University, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University, the First Moscow State Medical University named N.M.Sechenova, Samara National Research University named after Academician SP Korolev, St. Polytechnic University-Petersburg Peter the Great, the Ural federal University named after Boris Yeltsin.

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Nizhny Novgorod State University named after NI Lobachevsky, Russian Peoples Friendship University, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI”, Siberian Federal University, Tyumen State University, South Ural State University (National research University) relies on 150 million rubles.

«The decision will increase the number of Russian universities, occupying leading positions in the world rankings of universities, improve the quality of Russian education and its competitiveness on the global education market,” – said the Cabinet.

In 2013, state support was provided to 15 universities (the total amount of subsidies from the federal budget amounted to 8.7 billion rubles) in 2014 and in 2015 – 14 universities (total subsidies – 10.15 billion rubles , 10.14 billion rubles, respectively).