Moscow State University fell to seventh place in the ranking of the best universities in the BRICS countries – Sight

Russian universities took second place in the representation in the ranking of the best universities operating in the BRICS countries – the block that includes Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa, according to a ranking published by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds ( QS).

in total, the list of the top 250 universities of BRICS includes 55 Russian universities. According to this indicator, only China is ahead of Russia, which is represented by 86 educational institutions, reports TASS.

Best Russian university rankings is the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, although he dropped compared to last year from fourth to seventh place. “Izvestia” newspaper notes that since 2014, the MSU is gradually losing its position: in 2014 – the third place, in 2015 – the fourth place.

At the same time, the Moscow State University received the highest scores on three metrics of QS, scored 100.0 points in the categories of “academic reputation”, “Employer Reputation” and “Employees with academic degree.”

The leader in growth became Lobachevsky University, has made a big leap in the top 100 among Russian universities, and has risen to 10 seats: from 86 th to 76 th.

The top ten best Russian universities also includes: St. Petersburg State University and Novosibirsk State University (they shared the 20th place), Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman (38), Tomsk State University (43), Moscow State Institute of international relations (44), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (48), National Research nuclear University “MEPhI” (50), Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University. Peter the Great (61) and the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (62).

«Three Russian University received top marks in the” International student exchange category “and four” staff with scientific degree “category. It is also noteworthy that 27 universities from Russia received 80 or more points in the “ratio of teachers and students” category. This indicates that the Russian education system, great attention is paid to the quality of education “, – said the head of research at QS Ben Souter

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