The university was ranked 5th to 8th among Russian universities (401st to 500th in the overall rankings). The World University Rankings have been published for the 14th time. Universities are ranked by 13 criteria split into 5 groups. These include quality of teaching, citation index, international outlook (ability to attract the best employees and foreign students), contribution to innovations, income from research activities, etc. This year’s rankings have covered 1,000 universities from 77 countries.