Lobachevsky University ranked among Russia’s top 30 most influential universities

On November 13, the RAEX ranking agency published the third issue of the ranking of influence of Russian universities.  Previously, it was presented in 2020 and 2022. The ranking assembles the list of universities that have the greatest influence on society, namely, on the formation of elites, on the scientific community, on young people and the Internet audience. The agency assessed the institutions by 14 criteria based on the results of questionnaire surveys of universities and data from independent sources such as official websites of federal authorities, Wikipedia, web encyclopedia, Similarweb web analytics data, RAEX data on the number of graduates in management positions in the largest Russian companies and federal executive bodies, data on social network subscribers, as well as data from foreign and Russian scientometric sources.

The ranking is based solely on objective indicators and does not use subjective surveys of respondents. This year. Lobachevsky University improved its standing and ranked 29th among 75 Russian universities, up 9 positions compared to 2022.