Moscow. The 3rd of December. INTERFAX. Seven major universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Ufa were included in the second edition of the universities ranking of BRICS and emerging economies countries by the British magazine “Times Higher Education” in 2014.
“Russia has significantly increased its representation from two universities in 2013 to seven universities in 2014. Lomonosov Moscow State University managed to rise from tenth to fifth place, and St. Petersburg State University – from the 67th position to the separated 64th,” reports the website univer-rating.ru.
For the first time the annual ranking includes National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (13) and Novosibirsk State University (34).
Also for the first time Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (69), Ufa State Aviation Technical University (70) and Bauman Moscow State Technical University (90) entered the top-100.
The rating attributed the success of some Russian universities to diminution of requirements to the annual number of publications indexed by Thomson Reuters (from 200 to 100).
The first place in the ranking-2014 was taken by China (27 universities), the second – Taiwan (19 universities), third – India (11 universities). Russia is on the fifth position.
The top 100 of best universities in BRICS and emerging economies countries is created by the magazine “Times Higher Education” on the basis of assessment of education, scientific researches, transfer of knowledge and level of internationalization. Authors of the ranking have evaluated universities from 22 countries.
2015 rank |
2014 rank |
Institution name |
Country / region |
1 |
1 |
Peking University |
China |
2 |
2 |
Tsinghua University |
China |
3 |
9 |
Middle East Technical University |
Turkey |
4 |
3 |
University of Cape Town |
South Africa |
5 |
10 |
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Russian Federation |
6 |
4 |
National Taiwan University |
Taiwan |
7 |
5 |
Boğaziçi University |
Turkey |
8 |
7 |
Istanbul Technical University |
Turkey |
9 |
8 |
Fudan University |
China |
10 |
11 |
University of São Paulo |
Brazil |
11 |
16 |
National Chiao Tung University |
Taiwan |
11 |
6 |
University of Science and Technology of China |
China |
13 |
Not ranked |
Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute |
Russian Federation |
14 |
15 |
University of Witwatersrand |
South Africa |
15 |
Not ranked |
Sabanci University |
Turkey |
16 |
27 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
China |
17 |
21 |
Stellenbosch University |
South Africa |
18 |
19 |
National Tsing Hua University |
Taiwan |
19 |
12 |
Bilkent University |
Turkey |
20 |
25 |
National Cheng Kung University |
Taiwan |
21 |
22 |
Zhejiang University |
China |
22 |
18 |
Nanjing University |
China |
23 |
31 |
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
Taiwan |
24 |
35 |
Sun Yat-sen University |
China |
25 |
Not ranked |
Indian Institute of Science |
India |
26 |
40 |
Wuhan University |
China |
27 |
24 |
State University of Campinas |
Brazil |
28 |
17 |
University of the Andes |
Colombia |
29 |
20 |
Koc University |
Turkey |
29 |
13 |
Renmin University of China |
China |
31 |
31 |
Charles University in Prague |
Czech Republic |
32 |
43 |
Harbin Institute of Technology |
China |
33 |
Not ranked |
Federico Santa María Technical University |
Chile |
34 |
Not ranked |
Novosibirsk State University |
Russian Federation |
35 |
33 |
National Central University |
Taiwan |
35 |
39 |
Tianjin University |
China |
37 |
Not ranked |
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
India |
38 |
37 |
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
India |
39 |
13 |
Panjab University |
India |
40 |
44 |
National Taiwan Normal University |
Taiwan |
41 |
26 |
National Sun Yat-Sen University |
Taiwan |
42 |
49 |
Dalian University of Technology |
China |
43 |
30 |
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
India |
44 |
36 |
China Medical University Taiwan |
Taiwan |
44 |
47 |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
India |
46 |
23 |
University of Warsaw |
Poland |
47 |
45 |
University of KwaZulu Natal |
South Africa |
48 |
59 |
National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Mexico |
49 |
29 |
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi |
Thailand |
50 |
83 |
University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad |
Morocco |
51 |
73 |
Istanbul University |
Turkey |
52 |
55 |
Pontificia University Católica de Chile |
Chile |
53 |
28 |
Wuhan University of Technology |
China |
54 |
55 |
Tongji University |
China |
55 |
60 |
Semmelweis University |
Hungary |
56 |
37 |
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
India |
56 |
65 |
Xi'an Jiaotong University |
China |
58 |
41 |
Jagiellonian University |
Poland |
59 |
53 |
Masaryk University |
Czech Republic |
60 |
42 |
East China Normal University |
China |
61 |
60 |
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
Brazil |
62 |
68 |
Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
China |
63 |
52 |
Mahidol University |
Thailand |
64 |
Not ranked |
East China University of Science and Technology |
China |
64 |
67 |
Saint Petersburg State University |
Russian Federation |
66 |
75 |
National Taipei University of Technology |
Taiwan |
67 |
60 |
University of Debrecen |
Hungary |
68 |
51 |
Hunan University |
China |
69 |
Not ranked |
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Russian Federation |
70 |
Not ranked |
Ufa State Aviation Technical University |
Russian Federation |
71 |
57 |
Jawaharlal Nehru University |
India |
71 |
99 |
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education |
Mexico |
71 |
76 |
United Arab Emirates University |
United Arab Emirates |
74 |
34 |
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
India |
75 |
71 |
Taipei Medical University |
Taiwan |
76 |
Not ranked |
Beijing Institute of Technology |
China |
77 |
78 |
University of Pretoria |
South Africa |
78 |
50 |
Aligarh Muslim University |
India |
79 |
90 |
Sichuan University |
China |
80 |
70 |
China Agricultural University |
China |
80 |
60 |
National Yang-Ming University |
Taiwan |
82 |
80 |
Hacettepe University |
Turkey |
83 |
66 |
Chung Yuan Christian University |
Taiwan |
84 |
79 |
American University of Sharjah |
United Arab Emirates |
84 |
71 |
National Taiwan Ocean University |
Taiwan |
86 |
53 |
Asia University |
Taiwan |
87 |
69 |
National Chung Hsing University |
Taiwan |
88 |
73 |
Chang Gung University |
Taiwan |
89 |
58 |
Yuan Ze University |
Taiwan |
90 |
Not ranked |
Bauman Moscow State Technical University |
Russian Federation |
90 |
85 |
Chulalongkorn University |
Thailand |
90 |
98 |
Northwestern Polytechnical University |
China |
93 |
Not ranked |
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
Malaysia |
94 |
88 |
Shanghai University |
China |
95 |
Not ranked |
Jilin University |
China |
95 |
Not ranked |
National University of Sciences and Technology |
Pakistan |
97 |
87 |
UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista |
Brazil |
98 |
46 |
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
India |
98 |
Not ranked |
Xidian University |
China |
100 |
80 |
National Chung Cheng University |
Taiwan |