Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –
Yesterday, the RAEX agency for the fourth time published subject rankings of the “Three University Missions” family. The lists of the best included 166 universities from 40 regions of Russia. This year, ratings were prepared in 35 subject areas – mathematics, a wide range of natural science and engineering specialties, social and humanitarian areas, etc. The ratings were formed on the basis of only objective data, the results of expert surveys were not used. NSU is represented in 10 ratings – 2 more than in 2024. Among the new areas in which the university is positioned are “information technology” and “mechanical engineering and robotics”.
NSU took the highest positions in the areas of “biology” and “chemistry”: the university entered the top 3 best universities in Russia. NSU is also in 5th place in “physics” and in 6th place in “mathematics”. The university’s positions in these four subject areas have not changed compared to last year.
The university improved its position in “information technology”: last year NSU was not positioned in this area, and compared to 2023, it rose by 2 positions and took 17th place. In “history and archeology”, it rose by one position and entered the top 10; in “sociology” – by 3 positions and took 11th place. For the first time this year, NSU is positioned in “mechanical engineering and robotics”: the university took 11th place.
— Novosibirsk State University traditionally occupies high positions in the natural sciences. The Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Physics Department and the Mechanics and Mathematics Department are known at the federal and global level, so applicants from all over the country come to us. Thus, at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the share of out-of-town students exceeds 70%. The university also has strong training in the field of information technology, and NSU is currently actively developing such a promising area as artificial intelligence and machine learning. In the new educational model, we pay attention to the engineering research track. We have achieved significant results in this area, which is confirmed by our fairly high positions in the subject ranking for “mechanical engineering and robotics”, which we entered for the first time this year, — commented NSU Rector, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Fedoruk.
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Subject rankings are based on the assessment of three university missions: educational, scientific, and social. When assessing the first — educational — mission of universities, the quality of training of enrolled applicants, the university’s staffing, the competitiveness of the master’s program, the amount of funding, the results of students’ performance at Russian student Olympiads, and the number of massive online courses are assessed.
The indicators of the Science group include bibliometric indicators (publications and their citations), according to the Web of Science and RSCI databases, research income adjusted for scale, the scale of training highly qualified personnel (postgraduate studies), the number of dissertation defenses, as well as the share of extra-budgetary sources in the total volume of expenditure on scientific research and development.
When assessing the third, public mission of universities, both subject and institutional indicators related to the university as a whole were taken into account. For example, the university’s contribution to training personnel for the region, the share of students in the field on a national scale, the share of target students, the share of first-year students from other regions.
The methodology of subject rankings is developed taking into account the characteristic features of different spheres. Therefore, subject rankings use different sets of indicators and different weights. Thus, for the natural sciences and engineering areas, the weight of the “Science” group is 35%, while for the social and humanitarian spheres it is 25%. The weight of the “Education” group indicators for the natural sciences and engineering areas is 40%, while for the social and humanitarian spheres it is 50%. All indicators of the third group, “Society”, in both cases are 25%.
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