Two Bashkortostan universities were included in RUR global ranking

UFA, 13 July 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Elmira Sabirova/. Two universities of Bashkortostan were included in the RUR global ranking. The Round University Ranking (RUR) Agency published a rating of the best universities in the world for 2017. Its participants were 763 universities, 67 of which are Russian. The republic is represented by two universities - USATU (657th position in the general list and 34th - among Russian) and USPTU (746th and 60th, respectively).

Universities in the RUR ranking are estimated by 20 parameters, grouped into five dimension areas: teaching indicators (40% of the university evaluation); research indicators (40%); international diversity indicators (10% of the assessment of the university); financial sustainability indicators (10%).

"Russian universities have demonstrated significant growth, rising by an average of 30 positions up" RUR experts mark.

Russia is on the fourth place in the world by the number of universities represented. In 2016, Russia was represented by 23 universities.

World Top-10:

1. Harvard University (USA)

2. California Institute of Technology (USA)

3. University of Chicago (USA)

4. Imperial College London (UK)

5. Stanford University (USA)

6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

7. Oxford University (Great Britain)

8. Columbia University (USA)

9. Cambridge University (Great Britain)

10. Princeton University (USA)

The Round University Ranking (RUR) - international university rankings published by the Rating Agency RUR. The ranking evaluates the activities of 930 leading universities from 80 countries for eight years (2010-2017) on 20 indicators measuring four areas of university activity: teaching, research, international diversity and financial sustainability. In addition to the overall rating, the RUR ranking includes 30 rankings in six subject areas: humanities, life sciences, medical sciences, natural sciences, social sciences, and technical sciences.