Ural Federal University has improved its position in the Webometrics ranking

09:54, February 12, 2015

UrFU has confirmed the title of best federal university in the country

The research team of Cybermetrics published another edition of the world ranking of universities Webometrics, one of the most authoritative rankings in this field.

Ural Federal University was able to improve its position in the ranking, today it holds the 7th place among Russian universities. According to the rector of UrFU, Victor Koksharov, it has become possible due to the improvements in the Open University Archive, as well as increasing the number of web-site-pages indexed by search engines.

The ranking ranged 24 000 universities, 1531 of which are Russian. 343 Russian universities took part in this ranking for the first time. Despite the increased competition, UrFU was able to show good results and retained its status of the best federal university in the country.

It is worth noting that the results of Webometrics rankings are used as a criterion for ranking universities in international rankings QS “University Rankings: Emerging Europe and Central Asia” and for the selection of universities for CIS rankings, created by the rating agency "Expert RA".

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.