TOMSK, Apr
7 – RIA Tomsk.Tomsk State (TSU) and Tomsk Polytechnic (TPU) universities have
improved the positions in the world rating of Round University Ranking (RUR) on
quality of teaching – TSU has risen by 31 points and has taken the 100th place,
and TPU has moved from the 179th to the 148th place, TASS with reference to the
press service of RUR reports.
RUR rating
is the only Russian rating of universities of the world, is published since
2010. It considers quality of teaching and researches, level of
internationalization and financial stability of higher education institutions.
700 higher education institutions from 74 countries, from them 23 higher
education institutions from Russia have been presented in the world rating for
2016.
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Earlier it
was reported that TSU took 131 places, and TPU – 179 in RUR rating on quality
of education of 2015.
TASS
reports, TSU has risen in the world rating on quality of teaching to the 100th
place, and TPU became the 148th. California Institute of Technology (USA) is on
the first place. The best result from the Russian higher education institutions
has shown Moscow State University (MSU), it has taken the 46th place in the
world.
Among
Russian higher education institutions, which are in the rating, TSU became the
second on quality of teaching, TPU has taken the sixth place on this indicator.
MSU became the leader in Russian top-10.
Also top-10
includes: Russian Peoples' Friendship University (3rd place), National Research
Nuclear University MEPhI (4), Nizhny Novgorod State University (5), ITMO
University (7), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (8), Russian State
Oil and Gas University (9) and Moscow Aviation Institute (10).
TASS
reports with reference to the press service of RUR, results of the rating of
2016 show "a long-term trend in improvement of positions of the Russian
higher education institutions, "which is connected with complex effect of
programs of target support of higher education institutions". On average,
the gain of positions of higher education institutions of the Russian
Federation has made 44 positions.