© РИА Томск. Павел Стефанский
TOMSK, Oct 15 – RIA
Tomsk. Tomsk State University (TSU) and Tomsk Polytechnic University
(TPU) are once again ranked among the top 100 universities in Emerging Europe and
Central Asia of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranking, according to the data posted
on the official website of the Rankings.
Earlier it was reported
that the QS EECA rating is designed to rank leading universities in Eastern Europe
and Central Asia. Published for the first time in 2014, it is a pilot version of
the ranking based on a methodology that was developed to reflect the priorities
and problems of universities in these regions. The top 100 of the ranking of 2014
included TSU (the 33rd place), TPU (the 45th place) and TUSUR (the group 91-100).
"Russian universities
continue to be the most impressive in the ranking of this year’s best universities
in Emerging Europe and Central Asia. <...> 10 different indicators were evaluated
for this year’s ranking, including academic and employer reputations, as well as
the impact of each university on research", – the 2020 QS EECA university rankings
website said.
According to the
website, TSU takes the eighth place in this ranking (in 2018 – the 13th place),
TPU – the 30th (in 2018 – the 35th). The ranking also included Tomsk State Pedagogical
University (TSPU), which took the 186th place, and Tomsk State University of Control
Systems and Radioelectronics, entering the group 211-220.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds
– is a leading global company that distributes analytic information on higher education
and employment. QS operates in 50 countries, collaborating with more than two thousand
universities and 12 thousand employers.