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about creating in Russia its own independent ranking of universities has thought The rector Moscow State University of . M. _ IN . Lomonosov Victor Sadovnichy . In his opinion , headquarters the rating of such a should be in Moscow . He also believes that _ in creating the rating media should involved leading get . this Nezavisimaya The rector of Moscow State University stated in an interview with Gazeta [ 1].

Bloggers could not remain indifferent to the project to create their own, original university rankings. On social networks, scientists gave the rector of Moscow State University some advice on how to create a new ranking of universities without actually doing anything.

They believe that the starting point should be MSU itself; it should initially be given the highest rating. “Then we’ll see how Harvard from Moscow State University , Princeton , Stanford , MIT , Yale differ , and we’ll them rank in descending order from Moscow State University . One indicator I already know is the number of teachers and employees who do not produce any articles . If the number of such employees and teachers is divided by the number of students then , we are definitely ahead of the rest ,” writes blogger A.M.

“Then I propose to take up the square meters of granite and marble cladding of the main building and the Fundamental Bible of Moscow State University . Divide them by the number of students , ” he notes. — You can also enter such an indicator as number the minimum of subscribed foreign journals . Apparently it is better , to take the inverse value . It is very actually savings important because it represents cost and a demonstration clear of how you can get by with little ! »

Other readers, not indifferent to these bold ideas, suggested using equally effective indicators. As a result of brainstorming, we managed to create a set of 10 categories (explanations for some indicators are given in parentheses):

1. the height of the spire of the university building ( “this is the most obvious indicator for the ranking” );
2. the inverse of the base salary of an associate professor and the direct amount of the rate of an employee of the rector’s office;
3. the ratio of the number of university administration employees to other employees;
4. the strictness and complexity of the access control system ( “ of vigilance we are in the also first in terms world ” );
5. the difficulty of purchasing equipment for scientific work and receiving money from grants;
6. victories of the KVN team of a particular university;
7. the number of self-citations in publications by university staff;
8. the share of plagiarism in the scientific works of colleagues from the sociology department ( “as an indicator of integration into pseudoscience” );
9. the number of forced meetings with the political establishment per week per student ( “as an indicator of proximity to the political elite”) ;
10. the number of original ratings that affirm the greatness of this particular university ( “remember the experience with Reitor -2009 ” ).

Vladimir Volokhonsky (read his note on ratings in the same issue of the newspaper) “on behalf and on behalf of those concerned about the ratings of St. Petersburg State University ” proposed 5 more possible indicators:

1. “scale”: the length of the corridor in the main building of the university, multiplied by the maximum distance from the faculty building to the dormitory building in which the student lives;
2. “history”: the number of years since the founding of the university, according to the university, divided by the distance from the rector’s apartment to Lomonosov’s grave;
3. “intelligence”: the number of levels of the hyperstructure of orders and instructions (orders to change the order to change), multiplied by the number of pages in the mandatory rules, orders and other documents;
4. seasonal indicator - the length of the icicles divided by the minimum temperature in the audience (although here we will have strong competitors);
5. statehood - the number of students who studied at the university and subsequently led our state (including those who graduated as external students).

As we can see, as a result of collective work, we managed to select 15 indicators that will undoubtedly bring our universities to the top of the Russian unique ranking.

We thank A.M., A. Markov, O. Melnik, A. Teslya, M. Sokolov for their help in thinking through the draft of the new rating.

Prepared by Natalia Demina

1. www.ng.ru/education/2012-10-09/8_rating.html