MIT led the world ranking of universities
The British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published an annual ranking of higher education institutions. First place, as a year ago, won the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Followed by the British University of Cambridge, which has improved performance compared with 2013 year. Troika closes Imperial College London, ITAR-TASS reported. Next comes one of the most famous universities in the United States - Harvard. Fifth place in the ranking was divided Oxford University, located in Oxfordshire in southern England, and University College London. The remaining four positions went to American universities - Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Princeton and Yale.
"With the economic downturn the government and private funding sources are focusing on high-impact-based (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), most of which is studied in the specialized institutions "- said study author Ben Souther. According to him "technically-oriented institutions are increasingly becoming the basis of the global race for innovation." "With the growth of the budgets from state sources, institutions seem to be more focused on the potentially lucrative research in the field of science, technology and medicine," - he said. MSU was the only Russian university, which came in the top 200 best universities, ranking 114th among the world's best universities and climbed six places compared with 2013 year.
Saint-Petersburg State University became the 233rd, up 7 positions from 2013. 322 th and 328 th place occupied Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman and Novosibirsk State University, respectively. Moscow State Institute of International Relations took place 399. A total of 863 high school rating included, 21 of them - Russia. It is also the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Peoples' Friendship University, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Tomsk State University, National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Tomsk Polytechnic University, Kazan Federal University, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia BN N. Yeltsin, South and Far Eastern Federal University, Nizhny Novgorod State University named after NI Lobachevsky, Russian University of Economics named after GV Plekhanov and the Voronezh State University. First on the list were, and the National Research University "Moscow Engineering Physics Institute", Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and Saratov national research university.
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