TOMSK, Jun 14 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State (TSU) and Tomsk Polytechnic Universities (TPU), also Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) entered top-200 QS rating for the developing
countries of Europe and Central Asia, TSU improved positions and included in
top-20 of this group, reported on the official site of rating.
Earlier it was reported that
TSU and TPU in 2013 were included into the "5-100" project to which
participants additional financing is allocated for increase of the
international competitiveness. In the last universal rating of Quacquarelli
Symonds (QS), one of the most authoritative in the world, TSU and TPU improved
their indicators and entered group 481-490.
"For the first time
published in 2014, the QS rating of universities on the developing countries of
Europe and Central Asia (QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe & Central
Asia – EECA) allocates top-200 universities in this region", – is said on
the website QS.
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It is specified that the
assessment was carried out by nine criteria: the academic reputation (30% of
the general assessment), responses of employers (20%), ratio of number of
teachers and students (15%), printing activity of employees (10%), Internet
activity (10%), number of employees with scientific degree (5%), quoting of
publications (5%) and a share of foreign students and teachers (on 2,5%).
In materials of the rating it
is said that TSU this year became the fifth among higher education institutions
of the Russian Federation and the 20th in the general rating, having gained
82,1 points from 100 possible (last time – the eighth place across the Russian
Federation and the 27th in the general rating, 75,3 points), TPU became the
11th across the Russian Federation and the 45th among the EECA countries,
having gathered 70,1 points (last time – the 11th in the Russian Federation,
the 43rd in the general list, 64,6 points), TUSUR has kept the positions in
group, having taken respectively the 111 and 120 place.
In total in top-200 rating 50
Russian universities entered. Three of them head the rating: on the first place
there is the Moscow State University, the second – Novosibirsk State University,
the third – the St. Petersburg State University.