Rankings

 

  The National Academic Ranking

is conducted only among classical, federal and national research universities. The authors are the International information group «Interfax» in partnership with the radiostation «Echo of Moscow». 

2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
29–31  (of 51)	60–63  (of 104)	50–51  (of 56)	61–64  (of 105)	80 (of 161)	74 (of 209)	88 (of 238)	79             (of 264)

 It is possible to conclude that USU is at the 60th  place of the  top 100 classical, federal and national research universities of Russia.

      In October 2014  on the basis of  the bibliometric system data the publishing activity rating among higher education institutions of Russia was assessed for the period of 2001–2013. USU  is ranked  6 among  the classical universities ‑ contest winners in strategic development programs.

       In  December 2014 USU was included in the ranking «the 100 universities, offering bachelor programs for media industry», prepared by the  Ministry of  Communication and Mass Media of the RF. The ranking embraced over 300 institutions, which offer training programs in the fields «Journalism», «Advertising and public relations», «Television», «Mediacommunications». USU is the only Ulyanovsk institution that is ranked 79  and was included in top-100 of the best higher education institutions of Russia in training programs in the field of Media.

  Ranking Web of World Universities

The website ranking of world universities has been conducted by Cybermetrics Lab — CSIS (Spain)  since 2004.  Universitiy websites are ranked in view of their representation of information in the Internet space. The Ranking results are published twice a year (in January and in June).  Webometrics is the Ranking of higher education institutions of the world which is computed by the Cybermetrics research ream composing the Spanish National Research Council. Methods and approaches of assessing higher education institutions correspond to the Berlin principles of university ranking. These principles were devised, agreed and adopted as underlying for comparative assessments of national systems  of higher education by the International Ranking Expert Group, the European Center for Higher Education of UNESCO and Institute for Higher Education Policy in Washington. At present this ranking is considered to be the most authoritative.

USU positions in the  «Webometrics» ranking  in 2013-2017

Year, month		RF Universities	BRICS Universities	World Universities
2013	1 half of the year	45 (of 987)	‑	2114 (of 20743)
	2 half of the year	21 (of 1188)	‑	2083 (of 21451)
2014	1 half of the year	37 (of 1197)	‑	2364 (of 22100)
	2 half of the year	61 (of 1113)	‑	2912 (of 21928)
2015	1 half of the year	65 (of 1530)	‑	3109 (of 23833)
	2 half of the year	74 (of 1484)	‑	3845 (of 23693)
2016	1 half of the year	60 (of 1417)	545 (of 7173)	3310 (of 23892)
	2 half of the year	30 (of 1351)	484 (of 9353)	2879 (of 26299)
2017	1 half of the year	35 (of 1307)	562 (of 9251)	2952 (of 26146)
	2 half of the year

 

 

 

  Academic Ranking of World Universities: European Standard (ARES)

In Novemebr 2013 for the first time the European program of World Universities' Academic Ranking  was launched. It was conducted according to European standards  by the European Scientific Industrial Chamber. USU applied all required documents to participate in the ranking procedure in November 2013. In February 2014 the Ranking results were published for 2013. USU was ranked with A+ having taken 13th place of 58 Russian universities. In 2014 the Ranking criteria slightly changed. In January 2015 The results of «Academic Ranking of world universities: European standard» (ARES) were published for 2014. USU was included into the group of universities with ÂÂ ranking (reliable teaching quality, research performance and demand for graduates by employers), taken 61 place in  top-100 of the best Russian institutions in the general ranking. The results of the Academic Ranking of World Universities- European Standard (ARES) for 2015 were published in May 2016. USU has been included in the group of universities with BB ranking (reliable quality of instruction and research activity, a high demand for graduates by employers) having occupied 96^th place in the overall ranking of Top-100 Russian Universities.

USU in the world ranking «Academic Ranking of World Universities: European Standard» (ARES) in 2014-2017

Year	RF Universities	Ranking level
2014	13	À+
2015	61	ÂÂ
2016	96	ÂÂ
2017	96	ÂÂ

 

The Worlwide Professional University Ranking 

Global World Communicator, Education and Science is a ranking procedure conducted by the International Council of Scientists (Latvia, Riga). In February 2014 the World Universities Ranking results were published. USU was ranked among top-10 Russian universities, having taken 6th place in view of the three ranking stages and  324 place with the total RankPro equal to 39,64. In  February 2015 USU took 21 place among the best Russian universities and 469 place among top-500 best world universities. 

 

USU in the world ranking «Global World Communicator (GWC). Education and Science» in 2014-2017

Year	RF Universities	World Universities	Ranking level
2014	6	324	‑
2015	21	469	b- /b /b-
2016	17	486	b- /b /b-
2017	10	273	b /a- /b-

 

 

Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings

 

The world university ranking has been conducted by Quacquarelli Symonds (England) since 2004.
QS University Rankings: BRICS — the ranking of the best universities in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The ranking is compiled on eight indicators, among them the quality of educational programs, international cooperation, the number of international students, etc. The 2013 ranking was devised in cooperation with the Russian agency “Interfax” to reflect the priority areas for the development of BRICS universities.
In August 2013, USU first applied to the QS-ranking, and then began the preparatory activity for participation in the 2014 ranking on the performance indexes of 2013. At the request of the QS administration in the second phase in November 2013, s a detailed statistical information was provided on the staff structure, including teaching staff (full-time, part-time, with  Ph.D. and Doctor’s degree), and the student contingent (full-time, part-time, part-time) of all training levels (baccalaureate, specialty, magistracy, residency, postgraduate study, doctoral studies).
On the basis of the collected data, in December 2013, the QS University Rankings BRICS mini-ranking was the first international ranking of the universities of the BRICS countries. Unfortunately, in the aggregate of all criteria USU could not get in top 100. However, according to the criterion of «International students», Ulyanovsk State University took 98th place.
In 2014 and 2015 USU failed to participate in either  full-scale QS-ranking or mini-ranking of QS-BRICS.
In October 2015, the results of the new international mini-ranking of QS University Rankings EECA — universities of developing countries in Europe and Central Asia — were published. USU was included in the general ranking list while on the criterion "Representation in the Internet" was ranked 111, according to the criterion «Citation of scientific articles» got 130^th place.
In June 2016, the results of the international mini-ranking of QS University Rankings were published: EECA — universities of developing countries in Europe and Central Asia. USU was among top-200 best universities in the region, taking 151–200 place  and 60th place among Russian universities.
In July 2016, the results of the international mini-rating of QS University Rankings were published: BRICS of the ranking of universities of the BRICS countries. In 6 out of 8 criteria («Academic reputation», «Citation of articles», «Reputation among employers», «Scientific degrees of teachers», «Student contingent», «Scientific publications»), USU was ranked 101+ among universities of the BRICC member countries.

 

 

 

National Academic Ranking of Universities

Ranking of Russian Institutions of Higher Education

Worldwide Professional University Rankings

Academic Ranking of World Universities — European Standard