MGU is ranked 23rd among European universities in the Shanghai rankings.
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Moscow Uni at Number 76 in Chinese University Rankings
Moscow State University came in 76th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiaotong University, to become the only Russian entry in the top 100.
The rankings saw American universities, Harvard, Stanford and California-Berkeley, occupying three top spots. Britain’s Cambridge is number four. More than a half of universities in the top 100 are situated in the United States. The UK has the second-biggest number of entries while Germany and Japan are sharing number three. Universities in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland also have entries in the top 100.
Moscow State University (MGU) is ranked 23rd among European centers of higher education. MGU came in 70th in the world rating and 21st in the European list in last year’s rankings. This year, Shanghai Jiaoton University published not only the general rankings but it also compiled separate ratings for different branches of science. The five rankings cover natural science and mathematics, engineering / technology and computer sciences, life and agriculture sciences, clinical medicine and pharmacy, and social sciences. In terms of natural science and mathematics, MGU is ranked 41st in the world rating, but has not entries in the top 100 in the other four lists.
Shanghai Jiaotong University has been compiling annual university ratings since 2003. Researchers first wanted to compare the level of Chinese education with that in other parts of the world. The rankings went on to receive much publicity and interest around the globe.
The Chinese rank universities according to indicators of academic performance (such as alumni winning Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals), performance of stuff (the number of stuff winning Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals and highly cited researches), the level of research (articles indexed in major citation indices) and the size of a university.
The Jiaotong lists have often been described as subjective. For example, natural science and mathematics tend to weight over social sciences and arts in the rankings. The rating also seems to be following Western standards. Chinese researches, however, admit that their ranking system is not perfect and say that it is next to impossible to give an objective evaluation for universities in different countries with the same criteria.
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