QS World University Rankings 2018: Eastern Europe and Central Asia

LONDON, October 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

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QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have released the 2018 edition of the QS World University Rankings: Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Picture a triangle with its corners in Siberia, the Baltic and Turkey. It would cover nearly a fifth of the Earth's land area. That is the region we analyze in the QS World University Rankings: EECA.

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The universities we rank in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in 24 countries, some of which are established players in global higher education. Russia has 97 entries here, and Turkey 45. But this ranking also points up institutions and nations which do not show up well in world rankings, often because their good work is not visible on the world stage.

QS World University Rankings 2018: Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Top 10)
    2018  2017       Institution Name            Country/ Territory
     1     1    LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY       RU
     2     2    NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY            RU
     3     5    UNIVERSITY OF TARTU                     EE
     4     3    SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY       RU
     5     4    CHARLES UNIVERSITY                      CZ
     6     6    UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW                    PL
     7     9    BOGAZIÇI ÜNIVERSITESI                   TR
     8     7    CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE    CZ
     9    14    MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY        TR
    10    11    AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY    KZ
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Key Regional Highlights

• Russia has three of Eastern Europe's top five universities: Lomonosov Moscow State University (1^st) is followed by Novosibirsk State University (2^nd) and Saint-Petersburg State University (4^th);
• Estonia's University of Tartu rises from 5^th to 3^rd;
• The Czech Republic's Charles University ranks 5^th;
• Russia has 97 of the ranking's 300 universities. Turkey has 42, Kazakhstan and Poland have 22, the Czech Republic has 19, Ukraine 16, Hungary 11.

Methodology
QS use a unique methodology to calculate this ranking. The methodology is designed to account for the unique challenges facing the region's universities, and features 9 indicators. These indicators are:

1. Academic Reputation;
2. Employer Reputation;
3. Faculty/Student Ratio;
4. Papers per Faculty;
5. Citations per Paper;
6. International Faculty Ratio;
7. Staff with PhD;
8. International Student Ratio;
9. Web Impact.

A detailed methodology document can be found at http://www.TopUniversities.com .

The full rankings can be found at http://www.TopUniversities.com.