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Russia is one of the six countries in terms of student mobility, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The data consider the number of foreign students who have chosen Russian universities, and the place of Russian universities in international rankings. According to a number of world rankings, Russian universities improved their performance in 2019, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper reported.
Russian universities are regularly included in the lists of the best in the world according to the most respected rating agencies on the planet. Moreover, progress is observed both in general ratings and in subject ones. In addition to universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg, federal and regional universities from Kazan, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and other cities of Russia regularly appear on prestigious lists.
11 Russian universities were included to the golden thousand of the Shanghai ARWU rating, 39 - to the Times Higher Education (THE) rating by the Times, 25 – to the QS rating.
The QS University Rankings: Developing Europe and Central Asia has become a triumph of Russian higher education. 105 Russian universities filled almost a third of the rating’s list. Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University and Novosibirsk State University made it to the top-3.
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