TOMSK, Mar 1 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State (TSU) and Tomsk Polytechnic (TPU) universities raised the positions in the subject ranking of
universities of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) agency; TSU raised positions in
subjects Natural Sciences and Arts & Humanities, TPU – in Technical Science
and Engineering, follows from data of the website of the ranking agency
Earlier it was reported that TSU and TPU were included
into the 5-100 project in 2013 which participants additional financing is
allocated for increase in the international competitiveness. Tomsk universities
got on 482 million rubles in 2017. TSU and TPU were among the best universities
of the world on natural and humanities, engineering sciences and technologies
in the subject ranking of QS last year.
"The ranking includes ranging in 48 objects in 5
subjects in 2018: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life
Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences &
Management", – it is said on the QS website.
TSU: high positions in humanitarian and natural
sciences
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In subjects Natural Sciences TSU got the 293rd place,
having passed into the third hundred of the best universities of the world
(earlier it was reported that it entered group 401-450 in 2017). In this area
achievements in chemistry, sciences about Earth and environment, geography,
mathematics, physics and materials science are considered. So, physics of TSU
kept high positions in group 201-250 in the subject ranking.
In subjects Arts
& Humanities TSU passed from the fourth hundred ranking into the third, having
got the 289th place (in 2017 – the 328th position). The greatest break in this
subjects is reached in the sphere of a research of the modern languages – in
this subject TSU passed from group 251-300 into group 201-250.
TSU got to the subject rating of QS in the areas
Social Sciences & Management (the 385th place) and Engineering &
Technology (group 451-500) for the first time in 2018. In engineering subjects
achievements of TSU on Computer Science & Information Systems (group
451-500) and Engineering – Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing are separately
noted (group 351-400).
TPU: rise in "special" subject area and exit
in new
In subjects Engineering & Technology, which for
Tomsk Polytechnic University is "special", the university raised the
indicators on 105 points, having got the 285th position (in 2017 – the 390th
place), follows from the data of ranking.
Also TPU entered in the ranking of QS in subject area
Natural Sciences where got into group 401-450 for the first time.
In ratings on separate scientific disciplines TPU is
ranked in the range from 201 to 500 position. So in discipline Chemical
Engineering" the university is included into group 201-250; in discipline
Mechanical Engineering – into group 250-300; in discipline of Engineering –
Electrical & Electronic – into group 301-350; in discipline Chemistry -
into group 451-500.
There are 24 Russian universities in the ranking in
total, there were 28 in 2017. As well as last year, the leader among the
universities of Russia is Moscow State University.