RosNOU gets into Top 450 universities of emerging Europe and Central Asia

On 15 December 2021, the Quacquarelli Symonds company presented its ranking of universities in emerging Europe and central Asia — QS EECA University Rankings 2022.

The ranking features 450 universities from 29 countries: Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Northern Cyprus, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Russia has the most representation in the list — 128 universities. Turkey comes second with 66 universities, and Ukraine takes third place with 41 universities.

The first position of the ranking was taken by Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). Charles University (Czech Republic) took second place, and Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) came third. The ranking’s top 10 also included the University of Tartu (Estonia), Jagiellonian University (Poland), University of Warsaw (Poland), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Novosibirsk State University (Russia), and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia).

Russian New University (RosNOU) was ranked 401-450 among all the EECA universities and 106-128 among – the Russian participants in QS EECA University Rankings 2022.

QS EECA University Rankings 2022 were compiled by the following indicators:

Academic reputation — 30 %;
Employer reputation — 20 %;
Faculty/student ratio — 10 %;
Papers per faculty — 10 %;
International research network — 10 %;
Web impact — 5 %;
Staff with a PhD — 5 %;
Citations per paper — 5 %;
International faculty — 2.5 %;
International students — 2.5 %.

Russian New University is a member of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence and, according to its Rector Vladimir A. Zernov, QS EECA University Rankings provide higher education institutions of the region with valuable information.

— This ranking allows countries to compare positions of their universities with the results of universities in neighboring countries. For instance, we can compare universities in Russia and Turkey. The ranking is a mirror that reflects both advantages and disadvantages of any university.

The QS company has a good ranking line. I hope that the makers of the Three University Missions Moscow International University Ranking will also be moving in this direction and begin compiling rankings by subject, region, and probably even by the federal district.

— How objective is RosNOU’s score in QS Rankings?

— I think it is quite objective. In any case, it’s a signal to our university to work even more. We should remember a piece of advice from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”

Vladimir ZERNOV

Rector of Russian New University