Ranking of Russian universities and Forum on Competitivness

The 2^nd Global Forum of Universities, Global Competitiveness, was held in Moscow earlier in June. It was organized by ‘Expert RA’ ranking agency and it was timed to publication of the third annual rating of Russian universities. The discussion at the Forum focused on cooperation between universities and employers.
“It took ‘Expert RA’ two years to build up a coherent frame of reference for assessment of Russian and foreign universities,” noted Alexey Khodyrev, Executive Director, University Ratings, ‘Expert RA’. “We have published ratings of Russian universities and CIS universities and the global rating of universities in terms of demand for their graduates by the world’s top employers. Ratings of Russian and CIS universities identified the gap between the needs of employers that are badly in need of engineering experts, on the one hand, and the selection of the prospective students that prefer liberal and economic professions, on the other. However, our global rating suggested that the world’s leading corporations hire Russian university graduates willingly”. More...