The Times Higher Education ranking includes 39 Russian universities - four more than a year ago

The annual Times Higher Education ranking of the best universities in the world included 39 educational institutions from Russia.

The best Russian university in the THE ranking was Moscow State University, which took 189th place. Four more universities got into the Top 500: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (group from 201 to 250), HSE (251-300), ITMO and MEPhI (401-500).

The University of Oxford has become the leader of the ranking, as in 2018. The top five also included the California Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• In 2018, THE ranking included 35 universities from Russia.
• In Russia, there is a program "5 out of 100", the goal of which was to get five Russian universities into the first hundred of one of the most authoritative world rankings.