UrFU is in Top 50 High-End Universities in Russia

14:47, July 3, 2018

Forbes magazine published the rating of Russian universities based on 10 indicators

Ural Federal University ranked <st1:metricconverter productid="49 in" w:st="on">49 in</st1:metricconverter> the new Forbes magazine rating of Russian universities. Compilers of the rating evaluated the universities based on 10 metrics, divided into 3 groups: the quality of education, the value of graduates and the Forbes factor, which reflects how high-end the universities are and the ratio of entrepreneurs among their graduates. 

“Our aim was to evaluate the quality of education in Russia and see which universities graduate young people with business acumen, maybe the ones who will end up in the Forbes list or join Russian elite political class, – the authors say. – We used the data of activity monitoring of more than 600 higher education institutions conducted by the Ministry of Education.” 

The rating's methodology takes into account not only the quality of education, but also graduates’ employment rates, demand for them on regional labour markets, and the ration of entrepreneurs among them. Forbes has also studied the biographies of more than 1 600 members of Russian elite – people from the Forbes list, their children, private and public companies executives, governors and elected officials.