15 Dec 2016 14:00

Interfax presents annual university rating, names best universities by parameters Innovation and entrepreneurship, and brand

Interfax International Information Services Group has presented the seventh annual National Rating of Universities (NRU), based on results for 2016.

The National Rating of Universities in 2016, like a year earlier, is led by Lomonosov Moscow State University. Second and third places are shared by National Nuclear Research University MEPhI and Novosibirsk State University.

The country‘s top ten universities also include Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU), St. Petersburg State University, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU), RUDN University, Tomsk State University and Tomsk Polytechnic University.

NRU-2016 ranks 238 Russian universities, including 67 classical universities (including 1 private university), 57 technical and technology universities (including architecture and construction, transportation and mining universities), 29 national research universities, 24 agricultural universities, 13 medical universities, 11 support universities, 11 economic universities (including 2 private), 10 federal universities, 10 pedagogical and linguistics universities, 4 law universities and 2 national universities.

Russia‘s best universities in 2016

(National Rating of Universities Top 20)

Ranking2016 University Website Score, points
1 Lomonosov Moscow State University http://www.msu.ru 1000
2= National Nuclear Research University MEPhI www.mephi.ru 862
2= Novosibirsk State University http://www.nsu.ru 862
4 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU) www.mipt.ru 848
5 St. Petersburg State University http://www.spbu.ru 811
6 Higher School of Economics National Research University http://www.hse.ru 780
7 Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU) www.bmstu.ru 771
8 RUDN University http://www.rudn.ru 756
9= Tomsk State University http://www.tsu.ru 738
9= Tomsk Polytechnic University http://tpu.ru 738
11 Kazan Federal University http://www.kpfu.ru 729
12 ITMO University http://www.ifmo.ru 705
13 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University http://www.spbstu.ru 699
14 MISiS National University of Science and Technology http://www.misis.ru 687
15 Ural Federal University http://urfu.ru 677
16 Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration http://www.ranepa.ru 619
17 Southern Federal University http://sfedu.ru 617
18 Siberian Federal University http://www.sfu-kras.ru 615
19 Belgorod State University (NRU) www.bsu.edu.ru 600
20 Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (NRU) http://www.unn.ru 597

(The assessment has been adjusted to a 1,000-point scale)

Universities were assessed according to six main parameters: education activities; research activities; social environment; internationalization (international activities); innovation and entrepreneurship (technology entrepreneurship); and brand.

The weight ratio of the first two parameters is 0.2 for each parameter, while that of each of the other parameters is 0.15. The assessment is conducted on the basis of processing data from surveys filled out by representatives of universities, publicly available data posted by educational institutions on their official websites, public data from the information resources of the Education and Science Ministry of Russia, as well as information from the information and analysis systems SPARK (www.spark-interfax.ru, ) and SCAN (www.scan-interfax.ru, ).

Interfax has also published the results of ratings of Russian universities by Innovation and Entrepreneurship and by Brand.

The leaders in the rating by Innovation and Entrepreneurship were National Nuclear Research University MEPhI, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU) and Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU).

Universities were assessed in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship by the following criteria: patent portfolio; cooperation with high-tech companies; development of innovation infrastructure; income from research and development; and participation of research and teaching staff and students in the work of specialized departments set up with companies and research institutes.

Russia‘s best universities in 2016 by

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

(National Rating of Universities Top 20)

Ranking2016 University Website Score, points
1 National Nuclear Research University MEPhI www.mephi.ru 1000
2 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU) www.mipt.ru 970
3 Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU) www.bmstu.ru 849
4 Lomonosov Moscow State University http://www.msu.ru 827
5 ITMO University http://www.ifmo.ru 822
6 Tomsk Polytechnic University http://tpu.ru 763
7 MISiS National University of Science and Technology http://www.misis.ru 726
8 Tomsk State University http://www.tsu.ru 684
9 MIET National Research University of Electronic Technology http://www.miet.ru 657
10 Novosibirsk State University http://www.nsu.ru 654
11 Kazan Federal University http://www.kpfu.ru 639
12 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University http://www.spbstu.ru 635
13= Higher School of Economics National Research University http://www.hse.ru 623
13= St. Petersburg State Mining University (NRU) http://spmi.ru 623
15 St. Petersburg Academic University - Nanotechnology Research and Education Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences http://spbau.ru 618
16 St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI http://www.eltech.ru 610
17= Siberian Federal University http://www.sfu-kras.ru 595
17= Moscow Aviation Institute (NRU) http://www.mai.ru 595
19= Irkutsk National Research Technical University www.istu.edu 593
19= Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics http://www.tusur.ru 593

(The assessment has been adjusted to a 1,000-point scale)

The top three university brands in 2016 were Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University and Higher School of Economics National Research University.

The biggest advances in NRU-2016 by the measure of university Brand were made by ITMO University, Ural Federal University and Novosibirsk State University.

University brands were assessed by criteria such as contribution to the formation of the national elite; communication with target audience; media activity; and perception of research in the international and Russian-language academic communities.

As noted in the rating report, measures of universities‘ communications activity were factored into the rating for the first time. The reason for this was that 2016 saw noticeable changes in the communications policies of many of the country‘s leading universities.

Russia‘s best university brands in 2016

(National Rating of Universities Top 20)

Ranking2016 University Website Score, points
1 Lomonosov Moscow State University http://www.msu.ru 1000
2 St. Petersburg State University http://www.spbu.ru 628
3 Higher School of Economics National Research University http://www.hse.ru 561
4 Ural Federal University http://urfu.ru 349
5 Novosibirsk State University http://www.nsu.ru 344
6 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU) www.mipt.ru 340
7 National Nuclear Research University MEPhI www.mephi.ru 337
8 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University http://www.spbstu.ru 312
9 Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration http://www.ranepa.ru 292
10 Tomsk Polytechnic University http://tpu.ru 289
11 Kazan Federal University http://www.kpfu.ru 288
12 ITMO University http://www.ifmo.ru 250
13 Southern Federal University http://sfedu.ru 249
14 Siberian Federal University http://www.sfu-kras.ru 237
15 Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU) www.bmstu.ru 233
16 Tomsk State University http://www.tsu.ru 229
17 RUDN University http://www.rudn.ru 223
18 Far Eastern Federal University http://dvfu.ru 219
19 Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (NRU) http://www.unn.ru 205
20 Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation http://www.fa.ru 203

(The assessment has been adjusted to a 1,000-point scale)

Interfax International Information Services Group began the National Rating of Universities project 2010 with the primary goal of developing the tools and procedures of an independent system to assess Russian post secondary institutions and their education programs, increase the competitiveness of Russia‘s system of higher education, academic research and technology entrepreneurship, and develop federal and regional universities, which are considered the backbone of the country‘s new economy.

The results of NRU-2016, and ratings of universities by Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Brand are available at www.univer-rating.ru

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