Eighteen Russian universities have been included in the British QS ranking of the best universities of the world, among them RIAC corporate members – St. Petersburg State University, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Urals State University and Nizhniy Novgorod State University, as well as RIAC partners – Higher School of Economics and the Far East Federal University.
Eighteen Russian universities have been included in the British QS ranking of the best universities of the world, among them RIAC corporate members – St. Petersburg State University, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Urals State University and Nizhniy Novgorod State University, as well as RIAC partners – Higher School of Economics and the Far East Federal University.
By 2020, 15 Russian universities should join the top 200, with five of them the top 100 of one of the key global rankings QS, THE, ARWU, as has been stated by President Putin. The universities to be advanced were selected last July and allocated 600 million dollars each for a term of one year.
In 2013, 15 Russian institutions of higher learning were chosen for a project aimed to raise competitiveness of national universities that are expected to be ranked in the top 200 within the QS, THE or ARWU by 2020.