FinU – One of RAEX Subject Rankings’ Leaders!

On May 16, 2023, the RAEX ranking agency (RAEX–Analytics) presented the results of the subject ranking of the country’s best universities.

As a year earlier, when the study results were published for the first time, FinU is at the top of the ranking and confirms the position of the domestic education and science leaders in such subject groups as:

• ​Economics – 3rd place (+1) Read more​
• Management – 4th place (+1) Read more
• Sociology – 5th place (+3) Read more
• Right – 7th place Read more​
• Political Science and International Relations – 7th place (for the first time) Read more​
• Philology and Journalism – 15th place Read more
• Mathematics – 20th place Read more​

About the subject ranking of RAEX universities (RAEX-Analytics)

The research is carried out by analyzing statistical data of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia, bibliometric data providers, aggregators of online courses, web analytics platforms, media monitoring and analysis systems and social media SCAN-Interfax. Reputation surveys are not conducted.

University Assessment Criteria:

1. The average score of the Unified State Exam of those who entered for training on state-funded and tuition-paid basis (in the considered concentrations of training / specialties, full-time education).
2. The number of winners and prize-winners of the Olympiads of school students accepted without entrance tests for the first year of bachelor’s degree/specialty programs in the areas under consideration (full-time education).
3. The number of winners and prize-winners of Russian student Olympiads in the subject areas under consideration.
4. The number of mass open online university courses hosted on the largest platforms.
5. The proportion of those admitted to master’s degree programs in the relevant areas who have a bachelor’s degree/specialist from another university (full-time education).
6. The number of faculty (in terms of full-time employment) per 100 students of all forms of education.
7. Percentage of faculty with an academic degree.
8. The amount of funding based on the number of students of all forms of education.
9. The number of publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database over the past three full years.
10. The number of citations per 1 publication indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection for the last three full years.
11. The number of publications indexed in Scopus over the last three full years.
12. The number of citations per 1 publication indexed in Scopus for the last three full years.
13. The number of publications indexed in the RSCI for the reporting year.
14. The cumulative citation of the university’s publications published over the past 5 years, indexed in the RSCI.
15. Income from research adjusted for scale..
16. The share of extra-budgetary sources in the total volume of internal and external costs for research and development.
17. The ratio of the number of postgraduate students (residents) to the number of students admitted to specialty, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs (in the concentrations under consideration, full-time education).
18. The number of persons who defended PhD theses in dissertation councils in the reporting year (in the subject concentrations under consideration).
19. The number of academic programs for which admission is conducted (bachelor’s degree, specialty, master's degree).
20. The proportion of first-year students from other regions (in the concentrations under consideration, full-time education).
21. The audience of the university’s website.
22. Number of subscribers of the university account in social networks.
23. The share of students studying at the university in the concentrations under consideration, from the total number of students in the region in the relevant areas (full-time education).
24. The number of those who have completed training under the continuing educational programs for the reporting year.
25. The amount of funds raised under the continuing educational programs for the reporting year.
26. The proportion of students enrolled in the framework of targeted admission (in the continuing educational under consideration, full-time education).
27. University Media Activity Index.
28. The number of students admitted to bachelor’s, specialist’s and master’s degree programs (in the areas under consideration, full-time education).

In order for the comparison of universities in the context of subject concentrations to be correct, the methodology of subject rankings is developed taking into account the characteristic features inherent in different fields, different sets of indicators are used. So, for the natural science sphere and engineering directions, the percentage of the group of indicators “Science” is 35%, while for the social and humanitarian spheres - 25% (indicators of scientific activity – citations, publications, research budgets, etc. – in natural sciences are significantly higher than in socio-humanitarian directions). The indicators’ percentage of the “Education” group for the natural sciences and engineering areas was 40%, while for the social and humanitarian spheres – 50%. The weight of the indicators of the third group, “Society”, in both cases is 25%.

Learn more about the FinU in the rankings  ​