On April 29, RUR Rankings Agency published the ranking of the leading world universities Round University Ranking. North-Eastern Federal University ranked 532th worldwide, having risen by 43 positions up in a year, and 15th place among Russian universities.

According to Tatiana Volkova, Director of the Department of Strategic Development, NEFU strengthens its position and has already became one of the best universities in the RUR ranking. The main university in Yakutia improved its position in the ranking by 80 points in teaching, improving formalized indicators for the number of teachers to the number of students, the number of degrees awarded to professors and teaching staff: the more degrees are earned, the higher the level of teaching, Tatiana Volkova explained.

According to experts, leading Russian universities are really developing and becoming more visible in the global scientific and educational space.

RUR international university ranking is the first regularly updated global ranking of universities of Russian origin. The ranking is designed to evaluate and make decisions on the choice of universities in accordance with the personal tasks of key stakeholders: applicants and students, the academic community, university management, and the state.

The ranking has evaluated the activities of 1100 leading universities from 86 countries worldwide over the past 11 years (2010-2020) by 20 indicators, grouped in four key areas: the quality of teaching (40 percent of the university’s assessment), the quality of research (40 percent), the level of internationalization (10 percent of the university’s assessment), the level of financial sustainability (10 percent). In addition to the general ranking, four rankings are also published - the quality of teaching, the quality of research, the level of internationalization, and the level of financial sustainability.