TOMSK, Jul 7 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) took the 26th position in the subject ranking QS Subject Engineering – Petroleum (in the oil and gas business) and became the best among Russian universities, the press service of the university said on Tuesday.
Earlier RIA Tomsk reported that the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rating agency published a ranking of the best universities in the world over the past year. TPU is on the 401th place in the list (2019 – the 387th) and is the 15th in a row among Russian universities included in the list. TSU takes the 250th place (the 268th in 2019) and is in the fourth place among universities in the Russian Federation.
According to the press service, the subject rating QS Subject Engineering – Petroleum became an addition to the QS World University Rankings By Subject 2020. The leaders of this ranking were National University of Singapore, University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University.
"The Engineering-Petroleum subject ranking includes 76 universities of the world, including five Russian universities – TPU, Moscow State University (MSU), St. Petersburg State University (SPbU), Novosibirsk State University (NSU) and Kazan Federal University (KFU). The best position among them is at TPU – the 26th place, MSU is at the 42nd place, three more universities from Russia entered the group 51-75", – the report says.
It is explained that when compiling the ranking, the university was evaluated according to four criteria: opinion of academic community, opinion of employers, citation and Hirsch index. TPU scored 84.1 points out of 100 possible on the "the opinion of employers" criterion and from 61.9 to 66.8 points on other indicators."TPU implements major projects in the interests of industrial partners. Our work towards the internationalization of both educational programs and scientific research has influenced. Of course, this is primarily the result of the work of the School of Earth Sciences & Engineering and the Heriot-Watt Center at TPU", – the acting rector of TPU Andrey Yakovlev is quoted.