Interfax, Ekho Moskvy rank best universities for 2013/2014 academic year

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - International information group Interfax and radio station Ekho Moskvy have released their fifth annual national university rankings for the 2013/2014 academic year.

The key aims of this project are to develop mechanisms and procedures for an independent evaluation of Russian universities and their education programs, to boost the competitiveness of Russia‘s education system, scientific research and technological entrepreneurship and to develop regional universities, considered the backbone of the new economy.

Lomonosov Moscow State University maintained its position at the top of the rankings in the 2013/2014 academic year. St. Petersburg State University was next and National Research Nuclear University MEPhI third.

The rankings included 161 universities, including 74 classic universities, 29 national research universities, 37 technical and technological universities (including 3 rail universities), 12 economics universities, 3 agrarian universities, 2 pedagogical universities, 2 construction universities, a medical university and one non-government university.

Six key parameters are used in the judging: educational activity; science and research activity; socialization, which reflects a university‘s social activity; internationalization or international activity; university brand and innovation and entrepreneurship.

The first two parameters carry a weight of 0.2 points each and the other parameters - 0.15. The rankings were compiled after processing information on forms filled out by university representatives, public data on university websites, public information resources from the Russian Education and Science Ministry and information from the SPARK (www.spark-interfax.ru) and SCAN (www.scan-interfax.ru) analytical systems.

The developers of the National University Ranking worked with Puschino Research Center in 2013-2014 to look at Russian universities in the life sciences sector and worked out a method for evaluating universities in this sector. As part of the approbation procedure for this method, surveys were conducted among the academic community and potential 2014 entrants. The key results of this study were discussed at the Bioforum-2014 in Puschino this April and have been published.

Ranking for 2013/2014 academic year	Name	Total score, points
1	Lomonosov Moscow State University	1000
2	St. Petersburg State University	840
3	National Research Nuclear University MEPhI	822
4	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University	821
5-6	People’s Friendship University of Russia	785
5-6	Novosibirsk National Research State University	785
7	Bauman Moscow State Technical University – National Research University	766
8	Tomsk National Research State University	732
9	Tomsk National Research Polytechnical University	714
10	St. Petersburg National Research State Polytechnical University	677
11-12	National Research Technological University MISA	66,5
11-12	Kazan Federal University	665
13	Ural Federal University named after the first president of Russia B.N. Yeltsin	661
14	Siberian Federal University	628
15	National Research University Higher School of Economics	608
16	Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation	607
17	St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics	601
18	Saratov National Research University NG .Chernyshevsky	599
19	Gubkin Russian National Research State University of Oil and Gas	597
20-21	Voronezh State University	593
20-21	Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)	593
22	Kazan National Research Technological University	590
23-25	Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod – National Research University	589
23-25	Financial University under the Russian Government	589
23-25	Southern Federal University	589

Best Russian universities in 2013/2014 academic year

Interfax and Ekho Moskvy began their new joint project to rank Russia‘s universities in December 2009. The first ranking was released in June 2010 and analyzed institutes on two categories: classic universities and law schools and faculties. Each category had 50 institutes.

The list of universities was expanded in 2011 to include 104 universities, including 29 national research universties. In addition because 2010 was Year of the Teacher in Russia, at the end of the 2010/2011 academic year, a ranking of 71 teaching, humanitarian and linguistics universities were created.
The ranking included 105 classic and national research universities in 2012, and 20 transport department universities.

In 2013, the ranking included 105 classic and national research universities and a league table of 25 institutes was compiled for development of entrepreneurial potential.
A ranking of the universities in former Soviet republics was launched in 2013 as well as a ranking of BRICS country universities, in partnership with international ranking company QS.
You can see the complete National University Rankings for the 2013/2014 academic year at www.univer-rating.ru.

*** SPARK (www.spark-interfax.ru), which was established by Interfax, is the biggest information and analysis system for companies in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. It can be used to check counter agents and prices, to manage credit and tax risks, for marketing, business evaluations and investment and financial analysis. It contains information on over 20 million companies and individual entrepreneurs in the above-mentioned countries. The system uses dozens of different sources, including information from ministries and agencies, judicial bodies, the companies themselves and Interfax. SPARK provides access to the Dun & Bradstreet global database, which includes over 230 million companies from around the world.

*** SCAN (www.scan-interfax.ru) is a textual information system also established by Interfax. It provides access to the electronic archives of over 16,000 sources of information, including key business and public and political publications, sector and scientific journals, corporate bulletins and federal and regional TV channel transcripts. The PR efficiency index (SPI) compiled by SCAN allows you to evaluate the image of companies and individuals in the press. This index is unique because it is configures in accordance with qualitative and quantitative indicators, which the user can set based on their current PR requirements.