UrFU Entered the World Ranking In Social Sciences for the First Time

16:07, October 18, 2018

The quality of university research in the social sciences has noticeably increased

Ural Federal University entered 601+ group of THE Social Sciences Subject Ranking. The subject ranking of the best universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education edition was published on October 17.

‘Over the past few years, university scientists have achieved significant results in the field of social sciences: the number of publications has increased and the quality has improved. The university started publishing a magazine “Changing Societies & Personalities” in collaboration with the international editorial board,’ said Elvira Symanyuk, director of UrFU Ural Institute of Humanities. ‘Several major international events including the convention “Modernization of Societies and Multiple Modernities”, the National Sociological Congress and the National Anthropological Congress took place in the university.’

According to Symanyuk, the development of interdisciplinary areas also contributes to success in rankings: the study of the urban environment and global urbanism, the study of the phenomenon of multilingualism in the era of post-literacy, digital media culture. The director of the institute emphasizes that a number of projects in the social sciences are supported by grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Science Foundation.

THE Subject Rankings use the same performance indicators, which are used for the general rankings - universities are evaluated for the quality of teaching, research, citation, internationalization and income from production activities.