UrFU Maintains Global Positions in Reputational Rankings

14:55, July 17, 2019

Experts highly commend UrFU’s publishing activity and teaching quality

Ural Federal University (UrFU, Ekaterinburg) maintained its positions in the university reputation ranking. The British magazine Times Higher Education has published the new edition of the annual world’s best universities ranking World Reputation Rankings 2019 today. UrFU is 374 in the list of best universities, according to THE.

‘Despite the increased competition, we manage to maintain high positions, having received more expert votes,’ UrFU Rector Victor Koksharov says. ‘In addition to the quality of research studies, we pay a lot of attention to promoting them in the media, as much as to the issues of internationalization. Of course, this impacts the university’s global brand awareness.’

The authors of the ranking evaluate two main indicators: scientific research (UrFU is 356th in the world according to this index) and the quality of education (in this field, UrFU took 331 place in the ranking). Moreover, the first criterion is taken into account with double the importance compared with the second.

The ranking is compiled based on the survey, in which more than 10,000 professionals from the academic setting (researchers and academicians from all over the world) participate at the invitation of Elsevier Publishing House. Each of the respondents names up to 15 universities leading in research and teaching activities in their respective areas of specialization based on their personal opinions and experience.

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Times Higher Education magazine compiles several global university rankings: overall World University Rankings, subject rankings, THE BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings and World Reputation Rankings.