Forth in Russia by brand visibility: UrFU among the best in the country

12:19, June 8, 2018

The University retains high positions in the Interfax ranking

Ural Federal University was ranked 4^th by the brand indicator in the national ranking of universities published by Interfax. Overall, the university shares the 14^th position with St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

«The next few days have already been nicknamed Rankings Week in the academic community, — says UrFU Rector Victor Koksharov. — In the national ranking compiled by Interfax we kept a high position and demonstrated growth by several very important indicators, among them the brand indicator that defines our visibility in the research communities in Russia and abroad».

In Rector’s opinion, UrFU managed to maintain good positions thanks to broadening the network of international partners and increase in the numbers of international students, teachers, researchers, as well as the number of programmes taught in English.

«Internationalisation is one of the key priorities for Graduate School of Economics and Management, which has allowed us to contribute significantly to the university’s standing in this ranking, — commented Dmitry Tolmachev, Director of GSEM UrFU. — The quality of GSEM programmes is confirmed on the international level by EPAS and ACCA accreditations. At present we have more than 35 academic partners, several of them are involved in double degree programmes development. Starting from Fall 2018, we are launching a new dual degree programme with KEDGE Business School, France (40^th in Financial Times business schools ranking). And of course, the main indicator of GSEM international programmes development is increase in the numbers of international students applying to study at our School. This number increased by 20% compared to the last academic year».

The national ranking of universities has been compiled by Interfax group since 2010 with the view of developing mechanisms of independent assessment for Russian universities and their study programmes, as well as increasing competitiveness of Russian education system, research and technological entrepreneurship. The authors consider development of federal and regional universities as a framework for a new Russian economy.