Belarusian state university once again considerably improved the positions in world scientific and educational space, having risen by 20 positions, and took the 334th place (all in the world more than 30 000 higher education institutions are charged extra). reports a site vniversiteta.
It is the highest position of the Belarusian university for all history of participation in the international ratings. BGU systematically are continued by the ascension in this rating: in 2016 of BGU took the 354th place, in 2015 — 421–430 place, in 2014 — 491–500 positions, in 2013 — 551–600.
In a rating of QS consider quantitative data on a higher educational institution and polls of independent experts. Such indicators, as results of poll of experts (the academic reputation), results of poll of employers, citing of scientific works over the last 5 years, a ratio of number of teachers and students, number of foreign students and teachers and so forth are used. The rating of QS enters the three of the most known world ratings, the Russian universities entering the 5-100 Project generally are guided by it.
In a rating of QS 2017/18 of year among the Belarusian higher education institutions besides BGU presented also Belarusian national polytechnic university (751–800).
On the first place in the updated rating the American higher education institutions settled down: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, follows it Stanford University, the Harward university closes the three.
Positions of some leading universities of the countries neighbors Belarus: Moskovsky state university named after M. V. Lomonosova, Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosova, Moskovsky university or Moscow State University (the 95th place), Sankt-Peterburgsky gosudarstvenny university, St. Petersburg university or St.Petersburg State University (240), Kazakh national university named after al- Farabi (236), Tartusky university (314), the Warsaw university (411-420), the Kiev national university of a name of Taras Shevchenko (411–420), the Vilnius university (401-410) and the Latvian university (701-750), Komensky's University in Bratislava (701–750), Ljubljana university (651-700), Karlov university (Czech Republic) (314), Segedsky university (Hungary) (501–550), University of Zagreb (601–650).