Facts and Figures

• UrFU is a leader among Russian Federal Universities in terms of number of publications in the scientific journals indexed by SCOPUS and WEB OF SCIENCE.

• 188 International students are pursuing PhD at UrFU
• There are currently 19 foreign scientists working at UrFU in postdoctoral positions.
• UrFU has 21 scientific journals and 10 of them are indexed by Scopus and/or Web of Science
• UrFU has a global research output
• UrFU has a cooperation agreement with Elsevier
• UrFU holds public lectures with Nobel Prize Winners
• Since 2017, almost 50% of UrFU publications are co-authored by foreign researchers
• There are 12 international laboratories headed by the leading foreign researchers: Climate and Environmental Physics Laboratory is headed by Jean Jouzel, Nobel Prize Co-Winner; Primary Sources Research International Laboratory is headed by Marie-Pierre Rey, famous French researcher 
• UrFU has 28 dissertation councils upon 62 scientific specialties. 65 PhD dissertations and 5 doctoral dissertations were successfully defended in the university in 2020.
• Ural Federal University entered the top 100 of the QS subject rankings in the areas of Petroleum Engineering, Social Policy & Administration, Hospitality & Leisure Management.

72 research excellence centers:

UrFU is one of the top ranked scientific centers in Russia that strives to develop a broad scope of research subjects in natural, technical and social sciences, the humanities and economics

UrFU’s state-of-the-art research infrastructure allows our scientists to carry out innovative and multidisciplinary research that attracts the interest of renowned international scientific community:

• UrFU Professor Victor Grokhovsky is included in the list of 10 people who had changed the World, according to Nature journal.

UrFU & Industry 

• Joint high-tech developments by UrFU scientists and representatives of the industry receive federal subsidies.
• The projects with “I-Teco” and NPO Automatica companies are the bright examples of the successful cooperation of UrFU and Russian enterprises.
• The Operation Center for Objects of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure ordered the system of radiological sensing of the atmosphere for the cosmodrome “Vostochny”.
• UrFU has the agreement with the company “FANUC” (the world’s leading manufacturer of equipment for industrial automation) in terms of joint training of specialists for high-tech industries, development and deployment of robotic “FANUC” equipment at industrial enterprises.