“Social navigator” project of “Rossiya segodnya” with the participation of Shanghai Ranking has represented the Russian version of Shanghai Rankings Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016.

This year for the first time universities have been evaluated in 7 engineering directions – chemical engineering; civil engineering; electrical and electronic engineering; energy science and engineering; environmental science and engineering; materials science and engineering; mechanical engineering. Three Russian universities – MEPhI (electronics and electronic engineering, group 301-400), Lomonosov MSU (materials science, group 401-600) and Ufa State Aviation Technical University (materials science, group 401-600) have been included in the rating. All in all, more than 730 universities from 55 countries have been represented in the ranking.

It is important to mention that MEPhI has entered Shaghai Ranking for the first time and has been acknowledged as the best Russian university in engineering education among the ones represented in it, once again confirming its competitive advantages on the way to the global leadership in the sphere of technical education.

“Shanghai Ranking is the most difficult one for Russian universities which is confirmed by Shanghai Rankings Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 in which only three Russian universities were shortlisted,” MEPhI rector Mikhail Strikhanov commented on the results of the ranking.

He connected the fact of MEPhI’s high results in “electronics and electronic engineering” with its participation in 5-100 Project. “In March, 2016 MEPhI was supported by the International Council of 5-100 Project for creation of 5 strategic academic units – universities, among which there is MEPhI Institute of nanotechnologies in electronics, spintronics and photonics,” he explained. “It is great that MEPhI has entered their number with the best result,” he added.

According to the words of Mikhail Strikhanov, thanks to MEPhI scientists, a new scientific direction of SHF electronics, connected with the raising of energy efficiency of devices of electronic component base on the basis of gallium nitride with the usage of graphene film for thermal dispersion, has been formed. “These and other works of our scientists have been reflected in top scientific journals which contributed to this ranking”, noted rector, adding, that it is only the start of intense work of new institutes.