Sadovnichi reported to Putin about the third place of Moscow State University in a certain world ranking

The rector of the Moscow State University (Moscow State University) named after Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichi reported to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin about the achievements of the university, saying that the university took third place in a certain world ranking, going forward only the famous Stanford and Oxford, follows from the transcript published on the Kremlin website .

“For the first time in the history of Russian universities - and even Soviet - foreign rating put us in third place in demand for graduates, that is, in quality. This has never happened: the third place in the world, among thousands of universities in the world, Moscow University is the third place. Stanford and Oxford ahead, and we are in the third. This is a very good assessment,” said Sadovnikiy.

“They became more objective,” the president answered this.

What kind of rating are we talking about, Sadovnichy did not specify. However, one of the most authoritative ratings in the world is the rating of universities in the world Times (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings). True, in it the Moscow university is located only in 188th place . At the same time, over the year, Moscow State University worsened his position, sinking from the 161st line. In total, the rating includes 800 universities, and not the "thousands", which Sadovnichy spoke about.

As for the third place, the Moscow State University has reached Times Higher Education Brics & Emerging Economies in the rating, which evaluate the higher educational institutions of the BRICS countries and developing countries. The official website of Moscow State University reported this achievement in December last year.

This rating is compiled by Times Higher Education (The) and is available on the publication website . According to this rating, the university of Beijing occupies the first place among the BRICS countries and developing countries, and the University of Sinhua is in second place. Russia is presented in the ranking of 24 universities. At the same time, Moscow State University takes third place in the list for the second year in a row .

The world rating The - 2016-2017 includes only five Russian universities - all of them are in the ranking much lower than Moscow State University. At the same time, according to the plan of the Russian authorities, by 2020 at least five domestic universities should be included in the first hundred universities in the world. Such a task was set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 2012May decrees . For this, the state program "5 TOP-100" was created, in the framework of which the authorities promised to allocate more than 37 billion rubles to universities to increase their competitiveness.