TSU entered the top 250 of the international ranking QS-2020

TOMSK, Jun 10 – RIA Tomsk. The reputable rating agency Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) published a list of the best universities in the world in 2020; Tomsk State University (TSU) took the 250th line, Tomsk Polytechnic - the 401th, follows from the document on the agency’s website.

It was previously reported that TSU and TPU have been participating in the "5-100" global competitiveness program since 2013, aimed at ensuring that by 2020 in the Russian Federation there was a group of leading universities with international academic reputation that are able to meet global development trends. Within the framework of the project 21 universities annually receive additional funding from the state budget. In 2019, TSU received 861 million, and TPU - 430.5 million rubles.

As indicated in the QS Rankings of 2020, TSU is in 250th place (in 2019 - the 268th) and is in the fourth place among Russian universities included in the list.

TPU stands on the 401st place (in 2019 - the 387th) and is the 15th among Russian universities.

Moscow State University is in the first place among Russian universities - it occupies the 74th line of the ranking. Next in the top three leaders of the Russian Federation are - St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk State Universities. In total, Russia is represented by 32 universities. Like a year ago, the top line in the list of the best universities in the world at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the second - at Stanford, Harvard kept the third place.

Earlier it was reported that six parameters are evaluated in the ranking: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio, international student ratio.