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TOMSK, Mar 10 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) entered the
top-200 list of best universities in Europe according to the magazine Times
Higher Education (THE), is informed on Thursday on edition site.
Earlier it was
informed that in the general rating THE World University Rankings by the end of
2015 TPU for the first time entered the group 251-300.
In total the rating of
the best European universities includes five Russian universities. On the 79th
place is Lomonosov Moscow State University, then in the rating is Peter the
Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (group 111-120), and then - Tomsk
Polytechnic University (group 131-140).
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Even lower (the group 151-160) is Kazan
Federal University. The last of the Russian universities in the rating became
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (161-170).
TPU Rector Petr Chubik,
commenting on the results of European rating THE, has noted: "Europe – is
a cradle of universities in the world and become one of the 140 best European
universities for Tomsk Polytechnic University, of course, is very honourable.
For us it is not only the original indicator of positive development dynamics
preservation, but also it's new possibilities", – is told in the message
posted on the University website.