Interfax, Ekho Moskvy rate top classic, research universities in the country for 2012/2013 school year

Interfax and Ekho Moskvy radio station have carried out their fourth annual national rating of classic and research universities for the 2012/2013 school year.

The chief aim of the project is to develop the mechanisms and procedures for independent evaluation of Russian universities and their education programs and to increase the competitiveness of Russian universities in the global educational and research community.

Lomonosov Moscow State University holds the top spot again and St. Petersburg State University remains the number two. MEPhI National Research Nuclear University moved up to number three and the four to six spots were shared by Bauman Moscow State Technical University, People‘s Friendship University of Russia and National Research University Moscow National Institute of Physics and Technology (State University).

A total of 105 universities made it on to the national rating, including 73 classic universities, 29 national research universities, 2 teaching and one transport university.

The universities were ranked on six main parameters: educational program; science and research; socialization - reflecting the university‘s social activity; internationalization or international activity; university brand and innovation and entrepreneurship - achievements in innovation and commercialisation. The first two parameters carried a 0.2 point rating each and the others 0.15. The evaluation was based on processing questionnaires filled in by university representatives, information on the official university websites and several information systems, including those developed by Interfax.

Another 60 technical and socioeconomic universities expressed their interest in participating in the national university rating; the data they have provided is being analysed and will several more ratings may be available in the future.

Interfax and Ekho Moskvy also got together with the Skolkovo School of Management to look into entrepreneurship in universities and worked out a method to evaluate the business potential of Russian universities. The method was tested with the help of surveys among students, graduates and faculty staff; quantitative data was collected on the level of entrepreneurship development in universities and league tables for several Russian universities were compiled.

Top classic and research universities in Russia in the 2012/2013 school year

2013 rating	2012 rating	University	Points
1	1	Lomonosov Moscow State University	100
2	2	St. Petersburg State University	78
3	5-6	MEPhI National Research Nuclear University	75
4-6	3	Moscow National Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)	72
4-6	5-6	People‘s Friendship University of Russia	72
4-6	4	Bauman Moscow State Technical University - National Research University	72
7	7-8	Novosibirsk National Research State University	68
8	9	Tomsk National Research State University	66
9	11	Tomsk National Research Polytechnic University	63
10-11	10	Yeltsin Ural State University	62
10-11	15-17	St. Petersburg National Research State Polytechnic University	62
12-14	14	MISiS National University of Science and Technology	61
12-14	7-8	Southern Federal University	61
12-14	19-20	Siberian Federal University	61
15-16	12-13	Kazan National Research Technological University	60
15-16	12-13	Kazan Federal University	60
17	21-22	Higher School of Economics National Research University	59
18-22	15-17	Chernyshevsky Saratov National Research University	57
18-22	15-17	Gubkin Russian National Research State Oil and Gas University	57
18-22	21-22	Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT)	57
18-22	19-20	Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University	57
18-22	27-29	St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics	57
23	30-31	Irkutsk National Research State Technical University	56

*** Interfax and Ekho Moskvy began their joint project to provide ratings for Russia‘s top universities in December 2009. The first rating was published in June 2010 and had two categories: classic universities and law universities and faculties. Each category had 50 universities.

The range was expanded in 2011 to 104 universities, including 29 research universities. In addition, because 2011 was declared the Year of the Teacher, the 2010/2011 school year rating included teaching, humanitarian and linguistics universities, including 71 teacher training universities.

In 2012 the rating had 105 classic and national research universities, as well as 20 transport universities.

The full table of national university ratings for 2012/2013 can be seen on the project‘s official website www.univer-rating.ru.