UrFU is among the best universities of Europe

16:45, June 21, 2017

The university is in 301+ group in THE Ranking

Ural Federal University became the only university in the Urals included in the list of the best European universities, according to Times Higher Education Ranking. UrFU is in 301+ group.

“The experts highly evaluated the share of income, brought by scientific research for industry and our movement towards internationalization,” noted UrFU Rector Victor Koksharov. “The university is becoming truly international and globally recognized. At the moment we have 2200 international students from 86 countries.”

“Internationalization is one of the main directions of university’s development. It is especially important taking into account the concept of the priority project of Russian education export” underlines Maxim Khomyakov. 

The top three of the best higher educational institutions in Russia according to THE are represented by Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and ITMO University (St. Petersburg).

The majority of positions in the European ranking are represented by British universities (91). The first place was given to Oxford University, then Cambridge University (second) and Imperial College London (third). German universities occupy the second biggest number of positions in the Ranking (41).

Ural Federal University started its admission campaign yesterday, offering 109 majors (including the new ones, such as “Media Communications”, “Anthropology”, “Ethnology” and “Conflict Management”.