UrFU has risen to the group #151-175 of the world ranking of THE in business and economics

18:11, October 26, 2023

UrFU took the third place among Russian universities

Ural Federal University has risen to the group of places #151-175 and became the third among Russian universities in the new edition of the rating Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 by subject: business and economics. The result of this rating became the best among the record ten subject ratings of the Times Higher Education, which Ural Federal University entered this year.

“The achieved positions are the result of increasing the level of research at the School, focusing on publications in journals with good peer reviews and high scientometric indicators, as well as consistent work to improve various aspects of internationalization. Nowadays, dozens of school researchers are consistently published in high-level international journals: these are Russian and foreign researchers, PhD students, and even bachelor’s and master’s students who are also involved in the research. Every year their works are cited more and more often, the geography and level of co-authors and partners is expanding - all this is directly or indirectly related to the indicators used in compiling the rating,” said Dmitry Tolmachev, director of GSEM UrFU.

It is worth noting the contribution to improving the School’s indicators in terms of citations and the number of publications in high-ranking journals of the School’s leading researchers: Kazi Sohag, Alberto Ferraris and Ivan Savin. They are among the twenty leading Russian economic researchers over the past ten years according to RePEc.

The Times Higher Education ranking is one of the three most popular university rankings in the world, along with the QS and ARWU (Shanghai) rankings. The current edition of the subject rankings takes into account 17 different indicators, divided into five groups: Teaching, Research Environment, Research Quality, Industry and International Outlook. This year, the indicators used to compile the rankings were slightly revised: in particular, for the first time, the level of journals where university researchers publish began to be taken into account.

For the first time, Ural Federal University entered the THE ranking for business and economics four years ago and since then has been improving its position every year.