International ranking of universities in the year.

On Wednesday this week, the British magazine Times Higher Education published the results of THE World University Rankings, an annual global survey of the best universities in the world.

The unchanging leader of the last five years, California Institute of Technology came in second in the rankings. Otherwise, the top ten higher education in the world has practically not changed: positions from 3 to 9 are occupied by the same universities as last year.

On the third place - Stanford University(USA). It is followed by the University of Cambridge (UK, 4), Massachusetts Institute of Technology(USA, 5), Harvard University(USA, 6), Princeton University(USA, 7), Imperial College London (UK, 8). The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich retained its ninth spot, managing to remain the only institution outside the US or UK in the top 10. Rounding out the top ten UC Berkeley(USA).

This year, THE World University Rankings study includes 980 universities of the world, which is 180 more than a year earlier. The study once again demonstrated the dominance of higher education institutions in the US and the UK.

So, the top 100 best universities in the world in 2016-2017:

1. Oxford University (University of Oxford), United Kingdom
2. California Institute of Technology, USA
3. Stanford University, USA
4. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
6. Harvard University, USA
7. Princeton University, USA
8. Imperial College London (Imperial College London), United Kingdom
9. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich), Switzerland
10-11. University of California at Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley), USA
University of Chicago, USA

12. Yale University, USA
13. University of Pennsylvania, USA
14.University of California at Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA), USA
15. University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
16. Columbia University, USA
17. Johns Hopkins University, USA
18. Duke University, USA
19. Cornell University, USA
20. Northwestern University (Northwestern University), USA
21. University of Michigan, USA
22. University of Toronto (University of Toronto), Canada
23. Carnegie Mellon University, USA
24.National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
25-26. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
University of Washington (University of Washington), USA
27. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
28. Karolinska Institute, Sweden
29. Peking University, China
30-31. Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Munich, Germany
32. New York University (NYU), USA
33-34. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), USA
Melbourne University (University of Melbourne), Australia
35. Tsinghua University, China
36-38. University of British Columbia, Canada
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kings College (King's College London), United Kingdom
39. University of Tokyo (The University of Tokyo), Japan
40. Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
41. University of California at San Diego (University of California, San Diego), USA
42. McGill University, Canada
43-44. Heidelberg University, Germany
Hong Kong University (The University of Hong Kong), Hong Kong
45. University of Wisconsin-Madison (University of Wisconsin-Madison), USA
46. Technical University of Munich (Technical University of Munich), Germany
47. Australian National University, Australia
48.University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
49. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hong Kong
50. University of Texas at Austin, USA
51-52. Brown University, USA
University of California, Davis, USA
53.University of Minnesota, USA
54. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
55. University of Manchester, United Kingdom
56. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
57-58. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Washington University in St. Louis (Washington University in St. Louis), USA
59. Delft University of Technology (Delft University of Technology), Netherlands
60-62. Queensland University (University of Queensland), Australia
University of Southern California, USA
University of Sydney, Australia
63. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
64. Boston University, USA
65. Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands
66. Higher Normal School (École Normale Supérieure), France
67. University of Maryland at College Park (University of Maryland, College Park), USA
68. Pennsylvania State University, USA
60. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
70. Purdue University, USA
71. Bristol University (University of Bristol), United Kingdom
72-73. Ohio State University, USA
Seoul National University, The Republic of Korea
74. Monash University, Australia
75. Free University of Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Germany
76. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
77. Leiden University, Netherlands
78-79. University of New South Wales (University of New South Wales), Australia
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
80-81. University of Groningen, Netherlands
University of Pittsburgh, USA
82-85. Dartmouth College (Dartmouth College), USA
Emory University, USA
Technical University of Berlin (Technical University of Berlin), Germany
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
86. Utrecht University, Netherlands
87. Rice University, USA
88. University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
89-90. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
University of Tübingen, Germany
91-92. University of Helsinki, Finland
Kyoto University, Japan
93. Uppsala University, Sweden
94. Maastricht University, Netherlands
95. Freiburg University (University of Freiburg), Germany
96-97. Durham University, United Kingdom
Lund University, Sweden
98-100. Aarhus University, Denmark
Basel University (University of Basel), Switzerland
University of California, Irvine, USA

What happened: The QS Research Center (Quacquarelli Symonds) presented its annual ranking of the world's best universities and institutions for the thirteenth time. According to the compilers, this year Russia has become one of the countries that showed outstanding results: the list included 22 domestic universities at once, and 18 of them took higher positions compared to last year.

The increased number of Russian universities noted by international experts is not the only fact that we can be proud of. Two universities in Tomsk at once - State and Polytechnic - for the first time appeared in the top 400.

Where is Russia: The highest position among Russian universities in the QS ranking, as in previous years, is occupied by Lomonosov Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov (Moscow State University). Moscow State University is only a few places behind the first hundred, being located on the 108th line. This is the same result as last year.

Commenting on the results, MSU Rector Viktor Sadovnichy highlighted the university's improvements in terms of academic reputation and employer reputation.

“We also conducted a successful admissions campaign to attract foreign students, which is a good start for the future,” he said.

Among the best Russian universities in the international list, MSU is followed by St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU). In this year's ranking, he took 258th place, which is two positions lower than last year.

"Bronze" went to Novosibirsk State University (NSU).

According to the results of this year, NSU, having jumped over 26 positions, was able to get even closer to the first hundred, breaking the border of 300+. Now it is located on the 291st place.

In the 2016/17 QS ranking, one more top three stands out among Russian universities - in terms of the number of positions they have overcome. Immediately after 104 lines - from 481-490th to 377th - Tomsk State University “jumped”. The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI soared 100 positions up - from 501-550th to 401-410th. HSE (National Research University Higher School of Economics) improved its result by 90 positions, rising from 550-501st to 411-420th place.

10 Russian universities in the 2016/17 QS list:

108. Moscow State University
258. St. Petersburg State University
291. NSU
306. Moscow State Technical University (MSTU) im. N.E. Bauman
350. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)
350. Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
377. Tomsk State University (TSU)
400. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU)
401-410. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
411-422. National Research University Higher School of Economics
411-422. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)

What to expect in the future: In 2013 the government set a goal for five Russian universities - to enter the top 100 by 2020. Zoya Zaitseva, QS Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, gave a forecast for the near future: “Despite the success of almost all Russian universities in the QS World University Rankings 2016, the probability of five universities entering the top 100 by 2020 is extremely low. Firstly, the closer to the top - the denser the concentration, the more difficult it is to move more than a couple of positions. Second, very few of the top 100 universities today started below the top 250 (Korean University, SKKU, a couple more).

Five Russians in the top 100 by 2020 is more of a utopia than a reality.

Two or three universities in the top 200 is a much more realistic picture. But this is possible only if the current momentum is maintained, while maintaining funding and support for the participants in the 5-100 project, with the general focus of the state on international competitiveness and internationalization.

The development of the university is not always reflected in the results of the rankings, so the answers to the question about the development and progress in the ranking will be different. From what I personally see in the country, the teams of TSU, MEPhI, HSE, MISiS and PFUR have a very high potential. This does not mean that other universities have the worst potential, but these are the teams that I know best. Whether the situation will change dramatically or not will largely depend on the steps that the new Minister of Education and Science will take. So far, her position on these issues is unknown to me.”

What is good and what is bad: Russia showed special results in terms of "internationalization".

According to statistics, this year foreign students have become more willing to come to Russia to study (the share of foreign students has increased from 9.7 to 11.5%), and foreign professors have become more willing to teach (from 3 to 4%).

At the same time, domestic universities continue to lag behind in terms of the “share of citations per teacher”. Almost all (86%) Russian universities from the 2016/17 QS list reduced their results in terms of the number of citations. It is noted that according to this criterion, the country was not even included in the list of 600 universities.

“Targeted investing” is especially important for improving results, said Ben Sauter, head of research at QS Intelligence Unit. “All countries showing growth dynamics in the ranking allocate development funds to their best universities in the form of state support or private funds,” he commented.

Who is on top: Massachusetts Institute of Technology is still at the top of the rankings. Stanford University snatched "silver" from Harvard, placing it in third place. Judging by the position of universities in the top 20, the dynamics are insignificant: most universities have retained their positions, some have changed places with their neighbors. Among the top 20 universities in the world, 11 are American, five are British, and two each are from Switzerland and Singapore.

Top 10 best universities in the world 2016/17 according to QS:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
2. Stanford University (USA)
3. Harvard University (USA)
4. Cambridge University (UK)
5. California Institute of Technology (USA)
6. Oxford University (UK)
7. University College London (UK)
8. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
9. Imperial College London (UK)
10. University of Chicago (USA)

We get acquainted with the best universities in the world, according to the Academic Ranking of Universities (ARWU) for 2018.

To compile one of the most influential educational rankings in the world, Shanghai Jiao Tong University experts use indicators such as: the number of graduates and staff who have been awarded the Nobel or Fields Prize, the number of most cited researchers in various subject areas, as well as the number of published in scientific journals , such as Science and Nature.

It is curious that for more than a decade the ranking of the best universities has been dominated (8 out of 10) by institutions from the United States. Thanks to their teaching, these universities top many top lists in the field of education year after year.

10th place | University of Chicago(University of Chicago)

This institution of higher education ranks 4th in the world in terms of the number of Nobel laureates. Throughout the history of the university, 89 staff and students have received this award.

9th place |California Institute of Technology(California Institute of Technology)

One of the two most important (the second can also be found below in this list) technical schools in the world, specializing in engineering and the exact sciences. The Institute owns jet propulsion laboratory, which launches the primary part of NASA.

8 place |Columbia University(Columbia University)

7 place| Oxford University(University of Oxford) - United Kingdom

The UK's first and oldest English-speaking university in the world. This institution has graduated from 25 British Prime Ministers, as well as a whole galaxy of brilliant scientists in the field and literature, including such prominent writers as John Tolkien and Lewis Carroll.

6th place |Princeton University(Princeton University)

Princeton University is one of the most prestigious universities in the United States and, like Columbia, is in the Ivy League. It is curious that this educational institution does not have schools of business, medicine and law, however, it offers one of the world's best educations in the direction, as well as in the field of engineering.

5 place |UC Berkeley(University of California, Berkeley)

The best public university in the world and the only public university that is among the top ten educational institutions in the world. It is one of the most advanced centers for training specialists in IT and technologies around the world.

4th place | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

One of the most prestigious technical educational institutions in the world. The university is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and .

3rd place | Cambridge university(University of Cambridge) - United Kingdom

One of the oldest (second after Oxford) and largest universities in the UK, the cost of education in which ranges from 12 to 29 thousand pounds per year, depending on the chosen specialization.

One of the famous teachers of this university is an outstanding theoretical physicist of our time -.

2nd place | Stanford University(Stanford University)

Located in Silicon Valley, this private research university ranks at the top of numerous university rankings around the world. Graduates of this university subsequently founded companies such as , HP, EA Games, Cisco, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia and many other global businesses.

1 place | Harvard University(Harvard University)

The oldest American university has been topping the list of the best universities in the world for many years. Harvard ranks first in the US in terms of the number of billionaires among its graduates, and its - the largest academic and third largest in the country.

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If you decide to enter one of these universities, then you should remember that without the proper level (the minimum required level of most universities is IELTS from 8 points) it will be simply impossible to pass the competition.

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published World University Ranking 2015. It is compiled annually by the English consulting company QS Quacquarelli Symonds, based on a number of factors. Among them: an assessment of the achievements of each in the field of research and teaching, the academic reputation of the university, the ratio of teachers to students and the number of foreign employees and students.

Not a single Russian university is in the top hundred of the ranking. And here is what the top 10 list looks like, which includes the best universities in the world in 2015, 2016.

In the ranking of world universities, a higher educational institution from Chicago, alma mater, has 89 Nobel laureates (as graduates or employees). In this institution, Barack Obama taught constitutional law and his wife Michelle worked (at the medical center).

9. Eth Zurich

ETH Zurich is one of the leaders in the field of technology and natural sciences. More than 18,500 students from 110 countries study at this institution.

8 Imperial College London

Imperial College London has a reputation as a 'leader of the art' for teaching and research in science, technology and medicine. In 2007, it celebrated the centenary of its founding. The medical faculty of the college is one of the largest medical institutions. faculties in the UK, according to a rating agency survey.

7 University College London

University College London became the first university in the city of London and the first in the UK to begin accepting students, regardless of their gender and religion. Here they study philosophy, medicine, technical, physical and mathematical, humanitarian and natural sciences, jurisprudence. There is a school of Slavic cultures and Eastern Europe.

6 University of Oxford

The second of the oldest universities in the world in the ranking. The University of Oxford can trace its "roots" all the way back to the 11th century. Many famous writers, thinkers, politicians and scientists studied there, such as Lewis Carroll, Roger Bacon and J. R. R. Tolkien. One of the most popular courses at Oxford includes the study of philosophy, politics and economics. This program is offered only in a few higher education institutions throughout the UK.

5 California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology, whose mascot is a beaver, opens the top 5 rankings of the best universities in the world as a tribute to the "engineers of nature." From the walls of this alma mater came the "father" of photocopying Chester Carlson.

4 Stanford University

Stanford University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, is one of the world's leading educational and research institutions. Its graduates were the founders of such giants as Google, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Electronic Arts, Yahoo! and NVIDIA.

3. University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the list of the best, having been founded in the 13th century. It consists of 31 self-governing and independent colleges, which are located around the historic city of Cambridge. The colleges provide housing and social services, and perform social functions in teaching.

2. Harvard University

Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It is also the university with the largest target capital in the world ranking, in 2014 it was $36.4 billion. Eight American presidents have studied at Harvard, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Leader in the list of the best universities in 2015, was founded in 1861 in response to the rising rankings of the US. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is renowned for its achievements in science and education, in the physical sciences and engineering, and more recently in biology, economics, linguistics, and management. Scientists at MIT have created the world's first microscope that can see fermions (the subatomic particles that make up matter) and developed a simple test to detect the Ebola virus in humans. 84 Nobel laureates and 34 astronauts are associated with this institute.

1. Oxford University (University of Oxford), UK

2. California Institute of Technology, USA

3. Stanford University, USA

4. University of Cambridge, UK

5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

6. Harvard University (USA)

7. Princeton University, USA

8. Imperial College London, UK

9. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich), Switzerland

10-11. University of California, Berkeley USA

University of Chicago, USA

12. Yale University, USA

13. University of Pennsylvania, USA

14. University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, USA

15. University College London (UCL), UK

16. Columbia University (Columbia University), USA

17. Johns Hopkins University, USA

18. Duke University, USA

19. Cornell University, USA

20. Northwestern University, USA

21. University of Michigan, USA

22. University of Toronto, Canada

23. Carnegie Mellon University, USA

24. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

25-26. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK

University of Washington, USA

27. University of Edinburgh, UK

28. Karolinska Institute, Sweden

29. Peking University, China

30-31. Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

32. New York University (NYU), USA

33-34. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), USA

University of Melbourne, Australia

35. Tsinghua University, China

36-38. University of British Columbia, Canada

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

King's College London, UK

39. The University of Tokyo, Japan

40. Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium

41. University of California, San Diego, USA

42. McGill University, Canada

43-44. Heidelberg University, Germany

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

45. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

46. ​​Technical University of Munich, Germany

47. Australian National University, Australia

48. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

49. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

50. University of Texas at Austin, USA

51-52. Brown University, USA

University of California, Davis, USA

53. University of Minnesota, USA

54. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

55. University of Manchester, UK

56. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

57-58. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Washington University in St. Louis, USA

59. Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

60-62. University of Queensland, Australia

University of Southern California, USA

University of Sydney, Australia

63. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

64. Boston University, USA

65. Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands

66. Higher Normal School (École Normale Supérieure), France

67. University of Maryland in College Park (University of Maryland, College Park), USA

68. Pennsylvania State University, USA

60. Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

70. Purdue University, USA

71. University of Bristol, UK

72-73. Ohio State University, USA

Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

74. Monash University Australia

75. Free University of Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Germany

76. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

77. Leiden University, Netherlands

78-79. University of New South Wales, Australia

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

80-81. University of Groningen, Netherlands

University of Pittsburgh, USA

82-85. Dartmouth College, USA

Emory University, USA

Technical University of Berlin, Germany

University of Warwick, UK

86. Utrecht University, Netherlands

87. Rice University, USA

88. University of Glasgow, UK

89-90. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

University of Tübingen, Germany

91-92. University of Helsinki, Finland

Kyoto University, Japan

93. Uppsala University, Sweden

94. Maastricht University, The Netherlands

95. University of Freiburg, Germany

96-97. Durham University, UK

Lund University, Sweden

98-100. Aarhus University, Denmark

University of Basel, Switzerland

University of California, Irvine, USA

Russian universities in THE 2016-17 ranking

sign "!" newcomers of 2015 are marked, "↓ and " - fall (growth) in the ranking, without symbols - the position of the university in the ranking has not changed