Top 100 Russian universities 2019, Forbes rating

The formation of the country's new elite is impossible without quality education. And Forbes magazine decided to make ranking of the 100 best universities in Russia 2019, in which those who will enter the ranks of the establishment in the future are already studying or will only be studying.

To compile a selection, experts analyzed all universities by 10 metrics, breaking them down into three components:

Quality of education with the best score of 50 points;
Demand for graduates - up to 30 points maximum;
How "elite" this or that educational institution is, and how many entrepreneurs have come out of its walls - 20 points maximum.

At the same time, Forbes did not take into account those universities that are under the jurisdiction of the security forces, since they do not submit reports to the Ministry of Education.

So if you are thinking about which institution of higher education is better to enter in 2019, choose the university you like from this list.

#	The name of the university	Total	Quality	Demand.	Elite
1	National Research Technological University "MISiS"	54.11	32.08	19.68	2.35
2	Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) MFA of Russia	52.24	24.48	16.07	11.69
3	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	52.01	31.15	13.38	7.49
4	National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI"	51.46	32.86	15.7	2.9
5	Lomonosov Moscow State University	51.27	23.11	19.56	8.59
6	Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation	51.04	21.51	21.99	7.54
7	Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics	50.89	32.91	16.4	1.58
8	National Research University Higher School of Economics	48.75	26.44	19.01	3.29
9	National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University	48.59	29.66	17.2	1.73
10	Russian School of Economics	48.14	32.77	13.63	1.74
11	Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation	47.81	20.33	22.31	5.17
12	Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas	46.79	22.91	19.93	3.96
13	O. E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University	46.41	20.66	17.55	8.2
14	Saint Petersburg Mining University	46.32	24.44	19.21	2.66
15	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	46.03	25.14	17.94	2.95
16	Peoples' Friendship University of Russia	45.94	24.45	17.71	3.78
17	National Research University "MPEI"	45.31	23.87	17.61	3.83
18	Saint Petersburg State University	45.22	23.53	17.63	4.06
19	Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov	44.94	19.74	19.9	5.3
20	Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University	44.74	23.75	18.34	2.65
21	Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet	44.66	24.5	13.87	6.29
22	Kursk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	44.57	27.68	16.77	0.13
23	Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University	43.88	22.68	18.1	3.11
24	National Research University "Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology"	43.8	28.48	14.27	1.05
25	Saint Petersburg State University of Economics	43.24	19.6	19.99	3.64
26	National Research Tomsk State University	43.02	26.87	13.7	2.45
27	Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics	42.98	26.31	15.41	1.27
28	Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports, Youth and Tourism	42.88	17.87	18.66	6.35
29	All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov	42.78	19.93	12.12	10.73
30	Orenburg State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	42.42	26.32	15.41	0.69
31	Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)	42.37	20.72	17.39	4.26
32	Altai State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	42.3	23.29	17.45	1.57
33	I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia	42.26	24.5	16.66	1.1
34	Russian State University for the Humanities	42.07	18.72	20.25	3.1
35	National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering	41.98	20.16	18.78	3.04
36	Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture	41.95	15.8	21.59	4.55
37	Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI named after V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) "	41.83	25.15	14.63	2.05
38	Belgorod State National Research University	41.27	22.85	16.11	2.31
39	Russian State Social University	41.27	19.12	20	2.15
40	Saint Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation	41.13	19.12	19.92	2.09
41	Russian State University of Tourism and Service	41.07	21.02	17.43	2.62
42	Russian State Institute of Performing Arts	40.74	21.76	15.03	3.95
43	Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory named after M.I. Glinka	40.74	25.5	13.65	1.59
44	Moscow State Institute of Culture	40.71	19.19	18.57	2.95
45	Privolzhsky Research Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	40.71	24.22	15.71	0.77
46	Tver State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	40.71	25.74	14.37	0.59
47	South Federal University	40.6	21.34	16.9	2.36
48	Theater Institute named after Boris Shchukin at the State Academic Theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov	40.43	25.4	11.81	3.22
49	School-studio (institute) named after Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Academic Theater. A. P. Chekhova	40.26	21.69	12.22	6.34
50	Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory	40.26	24.05	13.14	3.08
51	Russian Institute of Theater Arts - GITIS	40.23	20.29	14.18	5.77
52	Gnessin Russian Academy of Music	40.18	22.15	15.19	2.83
53	Moscow State Technological University "STANKIN"	40.09	23.53	14.9	1.67
54	Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin	40.03	20.73	16.57	2.73
55	Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	39.99	23.06	15.66	1.27
56	Perm National Research Polytechnic University	39.98	22.06	15.15	2.76
57	State University of Management	39.97	18.34	17.64	3.99
58	Moscow Technological University	39.69	19.97	17.18	2.53
59	Omsk State Technical University	39.57	21.85	16.08	1.64
60	State Institute of the Russian Language. A.S. Pushkin	39.56	29.07	9.72	0.77
61	Novosibirsk National Research State University	39.54	22.02	13.42	4.1
62	Belgorod State Technological University V. G. Shukhova	39.54	18.59	17.39	3.56
63	Kazan National Research Technical University. A. N. Tupolev - KAI	39.49	21.45	15.21	2.83
64	Russian University of Transport (MIIT)	39.47	17.26	20.23	1.98
65	Moscow Polytechnic University	39.28	21.15	14.33	3.8
66	Mechnikov North-West State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	39.24	19.68	18.88	0.68
67	Ufa State Petroleum Technical University	39.23	19.48	17.11	2.64
68	Novosibirsk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	39.22	20.22	17.32	1.68
69	Russian State Pedagogical University. A. I. Herzen	39.14	19.35	18.19	1.6
70	Siberian State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	39.13	22.77	15.01	1.35
71	Novosibirsk State Technical University	39.08	21.61	15.43	2.05
72	Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin	38.99	18.93	17.75	2.3
73	Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies	38.79	21.1	15.27	2.42
74	Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A.Timiryazev	38.77	16.98	19.43	2.36
75	Kazan National Research Technological University	38.77	20.69	16.6	1.47
76	Tyumen Industrial University	38.64	17.14	18.79	2.71
77	Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation	38.62	19.82	16.41	2.39
78	Astrakhan State University	38.6	20.93	14.98	2.69
79	Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky, Ministry of Health of Russia	38.56	21.41	16.34	0.81
80	Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics	38.47	21.12	15.31	2.03
81	South Ural State University (National Research University)	38.44	19.17	16.17	3.1
82	Moscow Automobile and Highway State Technical University (MADI)	38.43	17.5	17.87	3.06
83	Samara State Technical University	38.43	17.61	18.47	2.35
84	Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design	38.41	19.31	17	2.1
85	Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture	38.35	19.56	16.2	2.59
86	Moscow State University of Technology and Management named after K. G. Razumovsky (First Cossack University)	38.35	19.06	16.71	2.58
87	Voronezh State Medical University named after N.N.Burdenko of the Ministry of Health of Russia	38.26	22.92	14.78	0.56
88	Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University	38.25	21.9	13.21	3.13
89	D. I. Mendeleev Russian University of Chemical Technology	38.23	21.46	14.87	1.9
90	Northern State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia	38.19	21.07	16.19	0.92
91	Moscow City Pedagogical University	38.1	20.64	16.26	1.2
92	National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky	38.09	19.66	15.86	2.57
93	A. M. Gorky Literary Institute	38.05	20.28	10.55	7.22
94	Moscow State Linguistic University	38.02	19.91	15.39	2.72
95	Witte Moscow University	37.93	17.72	16.8	3.41
96	Russian New University	37.91	18.18	16.54	3.19
97	Samara National Research University named after academician S. P. Korolev	37.9	21.68	14.21	2.01
98	Lenin Ivanovo State Power Engineering University	37.69	17.21	18.16	2.32
99	Petersburg State Transport University of Emperor Alexander I	37.59	18.84	16.31	2.44
100	Voronezh State University	37.35	17.68	17.27	2.39

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10 best universities in Russia 2019 according to Forbes

10. NES, Moscow

The Russian School of Economics is one of those places where the richest people in Russia were taught and are being taught. For example, economist, politician and FIDE head Arkady Dvorkovich, as well as the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Ksenia Yudaeva, are some of the NES graduates.

About 40% of the teaching staff are foreign professors of the highest level. The Russian Ministry of Education gave NES the highest mark for its educational activities.

9. TPU, Tomsk region

This is the oldest technical university in the Trans-Urals. It is also the only one in the Asian part of Russia that has been honored to enter the top 5 best technical universities in the country.

Tomsk Polytechnic University prepares students in 54 specialties, and 92% of graduates find work within a year after graduation.

By the way, if you have read the works of science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev ("Guest from Space", "Gift of Kaissa", "Oil. Twelfth Moon of the Earth", etc.), then you should know that he also studied at TPU. So the hearts of techies are also not alien to high prose.

8. NRU HSE, Moscow

It is one of the youngest universities in the world. The Higher School of Economics was founded in 1992 as a think tank for officials. According to Yevgeny Yasinya, the HSE was to become a forge of personnel ready to work in new conditions for the new government.

And since the country at that time needed economists and managers, these areas were the first to open at HSE, as students fondly call this institution.

Currently, HSE is among the top 11 Russian universities, whose graduates find work during the year. These are the data of the British consulting agency Quacquarelli Symonds. According to the results of a survey conducted at the HSE itself, 93% of graduates are employed in the first year after receiving a diploma.

7. ITMO University, St. Petersburg

The only representative of the Northern Capital in the top 10 best universities in Russia in 2019 has the status of the National Research University (NRU).

As part of this program, ITMO implements projects to modernize the priority areas of the Russian economy:

IT;
photonics;
optoinformatics;
urbanism.

More recently, scientists from ITMO have developed a special lining made of artificial materials that allows people with non-magnetic implants to safely perform MRI scans.

ITMO is the alma mater of many famous Russians, including: Ephraim Kogan, the creator of the head part of a self-guided torpedo for submarines, and Yuri Denisyuk, the discoverer of three-dimensional holography and the method of three-dimensional reflection holograms.

6.RANEPA, Moscow

Presidential Academy - it sounds proudly. And given her numerous awards, it is also prestigious.

In 2016, RANEPA was one of the five best economic Russian universities according to Expert RA, and in the same year 100 of its graduates were included in the 17th rating of the Top 1000 Russian Managers.

In 2018, Forbes gave the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation the second place in the list of the best universities in the country. This year, as you can see, it has shifted to 6th place.

The current stars of the political Olympus - Valentina Matvienko, Anton Siluanov, Alexey Kudrin and Sergei Shoigu - are graduates of the RANEPA.

5. Moscow State University, Moscow

The first five Russian universities for the elite are opened by one of the oldest and largest universities in Russia, named after M.V. Lomonosov.

It includes 43 faculties, over 300 departments, 6 branches and 15 research institutes. So, applicants have a wide scope for choosing a future specialty.

MSU regularly enters Russian and foreign rankings the best universities in the world... So, in 2019, he was included in the first fifty best universities in the world according to Quacquarelli Symonds, and not in one, but in five areas:

Linguistics;
Mathematics;
Computer Science;
Modern languages;
Physics and Astronomy.

Once upon a time, the granite of science at Moscow State University was gnawed by: the shark of Russian business Oleg Deripaska, the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, the popular showman Andrei Malakhov, as well as the first and only president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.

4. MEPhI, Moscow

One of the most elite universities in Russia in 2019 has the status of the National Research University of the Russian Federation.

In 2016, the British company Quacquarelli Symonds included MEPhI in the top 50 best universities in the BRICS countries.

It is curious that in such a seemingly purely atheistic institution like MEPhI there is a department of theology.

Among famous Russians who have ever studied at MEPhI, one can note Nikolai Rukavishnikov, the first civilian commander of a spacecraft, another cosmonaut Sergei Avdeev, and Alexander Rumyantsev, the ex-head of Rosatom.

3.MIPT, Moscow region

The famous Phystech, also known as the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, is focused on training scientists and engineers to work in the most relevant and modern fields of science. The most popular discipline at MIPT is Applied Mathematics and Physics.

Last year, the British Times Higher Education magazine included MIPT in the top 100 most prestigious universities in the world.

Studied here:

Tatyana Ustinova is a famous Russian author of detective books;
Potashev Maxim is a polymath and a participant in the elite show “What? Where? When?";
Andrey Geim, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 (together with Konstantin Novoselov, Geim discovered a new material - graphene);
Alexander Filippenko - People's Artist of Russia.

2. MGIMO, Moscow

Many famous people came out of the walls of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Among them:

Georgy Arbatov, who founded the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
TV presenter and TV journalist Alexander Lyubimov;
Sergey Lavrov - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (by the way, he wrote the anthem of the institute);
Vladimir Potanin is one of richest billionaires in Russia.
Alisher Usmanov is another major Russian businessman, and, according to the US Treasury's "Kremlin report", a person close to Vladimir Putin.

MGIMO prepares students in 18 areas, including journalism, political science, international relations and business informatics. This institute even got into the Guinness Book of Records as the university where the largest number of foreign languages are taught (53).

An important factor in choosing MGIMO is the fact that in 2016 it topped the world ranking of graduate employment within a year after graduation.

1. MISiS, Moscow

MISIS The best university in 2019 was the first in Russia to receive a proud and long name - National Research Technological University.

If you have long dreamed of making a quantum leap, or, for a start, study quantum physics well, then there is no university in Russia better than MISiS.After all, it is one of the leading research centers in the field of quantum physics.

MISIS actively cooperates with the world's leading scientific organizations, and so far the only one in Russia has concluded an agreement with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The strongest areas in MISIS are materials science, metallurgy and mining.

Some of the most prominent graduates of this university are: Vitaly Tatsiy - the founder of the famous Internet resource "KinoPoisk" and Mikhail Fridman - a businessman and co-owner of the consortium "Alfa Group".