ASU ranked among the top 100 BRICS universities in the QS rating
The published part of the ranking includes the top 300 universities in the BRICS countries, with 68 universities representing the Russian higher school. This is the best result in the history of the ranking. The ranking also includes 94 Chinese universities, 61 Brazilian, 65 Indian and 12 universities in South Africa. The evaluation of universities was carried out according to 8 criteria: academic reputation, reputation among employers, the ratio of the teaching staff to the number of students, the citation index and the proportion of scientific articles for a teacher, as well as the proportion of foreign teachers, foreign students and teachers with a scientific degree. QS rankings are among the three most influential ones in the world along with Academic Ranking of World Universities and The Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
In comparison with 2016 ranking, Altai State University has gone up by 37 positions, entering the top 100 leaders for the first time. Among all universities of the BRICS countries, ASU ranks 94th, outstripping such large universities as Lanzhou University, Beijing Foreign Languages University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology.
Among Russian universities, ASU is confidently taking the 24th place, leaving behind a number of leading universities, participants of the 5-100 federal program: St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (106th place), South Ural State University (138th place), Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (151st-160th place), Siberian Federal University (171st-180th place).
For the present moment, Altai State University takes the first place among all the flagship universities of Russia in terms of the aggregate results of participation in the rankings. The QS-BRICS ranking data confirmed the achievements of ASU in other prestigious university rankings of this year. In October Altai State University took the 115th place in the ranking of the best universities QS – Emerging Europe and Central Asia 2018. In 2017 ASU ranked 25th among Russian universities in the RUR ranking (Round University Ranking), 25th in the national ranking prepared by Interfax information agency, and 46th in the ranking by Expert ranking agency.