“Universities in the EECA region are beginning to add depth to the landscape of global higher education, they are becoming increasingly attractive to students and QS is pleased to announce the first rankings dedicated to this region – providing these universities with a platform to shine and giving regionally mobile students a way to compare universities,” said Ben Sowter, Head of the QS Intelligence Unit.

Lomonosov Moscow State University is Top 50 in Linguistics (at number 35), Physics and Astronomy (36), Mathematics (42) and Modern Languages (48). Last year, MSU only made the Physics and Mathematics Top 50. MSU also entered the Top 100 in Computer Science and IT.

This year, other Russian universities are catching up with MSU in the QS Top 100. St Petersburg State University has entered the world’s Top 100 in Linguistics, Top 150 in Mathematics and Modern Languages, Top 200 in History, Physics and Astronomy.

The primary aim of the QS World University Rankings is to help students make informed comparisons between their international study options. Since first being compiled in 2004, the rankings have expanded to feature more than 800 universities around the world, with far more (over 3,000) assessed. The rankings compare these top 800 universities across four broad areas of interest to prospective students: research, teaching, employability and international outlook. These four key areas are assessed using six indicators, each of which is given a different percentage weighting. Four of the indicators are based on ‘hard’ data, and the remaining two on major global surveys – one of academics and another of employers – each the largest of their kind. Below is a guide to each of the six indicators used.

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