Global University Ranking

The Global University Ranking is a new ranking of 500 world universities carried out under an international global project of an Independent Rating Agency - RatER (Rating of Educational Resources) supported by the academic society of Russia.
It combines main global rankings (Academic Ranking of World Universities, HEEACT, THE - QS World University Rankings, and Webometrics) and utilizes a pool of "experts" formed by project officials and managers to determine the rating scales for every indicator of performance of the universities in seven areas (academic performance, research performance, faculty expertise, resource availability, socially significant activities of graduates, international activities of the university, and international opinion of foreign universities).
The ranking is aimed at overcoming the barriers which have historically appeared between domestic educational system and the world educational space, first of all, of information barriers; definition of the place of the Russian higher education institutions and the universities of the CIS countries and Baltic in the global educational space; stimulation of the academic community for putting their efforts on development of universities and educational systems.
The first ranking was published in the beginning of 2009 and compared data from 15000 universities worldwide.
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From 15000 universities more than 500 higher educational institutions from 70 various countries of the world, including almost 100 universities of Russia, the CIS countries and Baltic are chosen for estimation.
The necessary information is received both from the questionnaires and from public sources of information, and data from the questionnaires filled in by universities:
* Responses to questionnaires sent to the universities chosen for estimation
* Official sites of universities
* Annual reports of universities
* National agencies specializing in gathering and processing educational statistics
* Various ratings which may also include estimated universities
* Records of the scientometric data base Scopus
* Google search system data
The estimation is made in the following six blocks of activity:
1. Educational activity (Block1). It includes indicators of number of bachelors, specialists, masters, post-graduate students/doctoral candidates of a university; estimations of number of educational programs realized by the university (bachelor’s program, specialist’s program, master’s degree program, postgraduate studies/doctoral studies); size of the resulted number of a contingent trained by one teacher.
2. Research activity (Block2). It includes general number of patents and certificates of discovery registered by authors of a university during the period from 2001 to 2007; an indicator of productivity of the computer centre (supercomputer) of a university; Hirschman index of a university.
3. Professional competence of the faculty (Block3). It includes number of publications of authors of a university (articles, monographs, scientific and methodical books), published during the period from 2001 to 2007; number of quotations of the authors of a university during the period from 2001 to 2007; estimation of number of awards of the world level received by employees of a university during the period from 2001 to 2007 (awards of the world level - the Nobel Prize, Fields medal, the Descartes prize, the Abel prize, Lomonosov medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
4. Financial maintenance (Block4). It includes the volume of consolidated budget of a university for 2007 (million US dollars) in ratio to the aggregate number of students.
5. International activity (Block5). It includes estimation of membership of a university in the international academic communities; number of foreign students from an aggregate number of student.
6. Internet audience (Block6). It includes the volume of web-products created by a university during the period from 2001 to 2007; popularity of the university in queries of the search system Google in 2008; PageRank value of the main page of the university’s site for the autumn of 2008.
University’s evaluation summary is determined as follows: 0,2*Block1 + 0,2* Block2 + 0,2* Block3 + 0,15* Block4 + 0,1* Block5 + 0,15* Block6.
Weights of block estimations are determined in the course of procedures of expert estimations.
Estimations are standardized according to the maximum value and are brought to 100 points.

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