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29 Sep 2023

Belarusian State University climbs Times Higher Education Rankings

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MINSK, 29 September (BelTA) - The Belarusian State University (BSU) has improved its positions in the recently published Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2024, BelTA learned from the Belarusian university.

BSU has been the only Belarusian university represented in the rankings for the past nine years. According to the Times Higher Education Rankings published on 27 September, BSU rose from 1501+ to 1201+.

The 2024 rankings include 1,904 universities from about 30,000 universities around the globe. In order to get into the rankings system, a university must have at least 1,000 publications in the international abstract database for 2018-2022, with the observation of the standard of 150 papers published per year. Some 769 universities are in the status of “candidate” for inclusion in the rankings. Among them are six Belarusian universities: Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR), Belarusian State Medical University (BGMU), the University of Civil Protection of the Emergencies Ministry of Belarus, Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Gomel State Medical University, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

The rankings assess universities on five areas - research environment, research quality, teaching, international outlook and industry. The table is based on an new methodology to include 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators and streamline calculation formulas. BSU received high marks on internationalization indicators - the score of the share of foreign students increased from 71 to 77 points, and also improved some other indicators, which took the university higher in the rankings.

The top three in the rankings are the University of Oxford, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Russian universities, including Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, occupy the best positions in the rankings among Belarus' neighboring countries.

Together with the Shanghai and QS rankings, THE is among the three most authoritative world rankings. In total, BSU is represented in nine global rankings of world universities, including 387th place in QS, in 12 subject rankings, including the Shanghai subject ranking in physics, as well as in various thematic and specialized rankings.