One of the most famous and authoritative annual international university rankings Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (QS) has published the updated results on June, 10. In the new rating, Saratov University ranks 18th among 28 listed Russian universities.
To note, SSU has been included into this rating for the last seven years, and it has steadily been holding high positions among the best universities in the world. In total, QS has included 1002 universities in the ranking table. In the general list, SSU is in the interval group 521–530.
The top three global leaders in higher education include Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Harvard University. The top Russian universities are Lomonosov Moscow State University (the 74th position in the world), Saint Petersburg State University (the 225th place in the world) and Novosibirsk State University (the 228th position in the world).
TASS Russian News Agency quotes Head of the QS Research Department Ben Sauter, who, speaking about the location of Russian universities in the ranking, called Russia “one of the success stories of modern higher education”.
‘It boasts a small student group size and a growing global reputation,’ Ben Souter explained.
The QS World University Rankings is compiled by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global research and advisory centre. It ranks the best universities in the world according to six criteria: the academic reputation (40%), the faculty/student ratio (20%), the employer reputation (10%), the citations per paper (20%), the proportion of international faculty (5%), and the proportion of international students (5%).
Following the news of SSU Analytical Division, TASS
