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ISU Listed in the RUR “Life Sciences” Ranking
21 November 2019
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Irkutsk State University is listed in the subject ranking published by the Round University Ranking (RUR) agency. In the world ranking “Life Sciences” ISU is placed on the 538th place, and among Russian universities it takes the 26th place.

ISU is the only university in the Baikal region listed in the ranking.
RUR rankings are prepared in cooperation with the international company “Сlarivate Analytics”. The analysis of participating universities is carried out according to 20 indicators - indicators of the university’s activity in four spheres: quality of teaching, quality of research, the level of internationalization, and the level of financial sustainability.

-          ‘The competition for leadership between Russian universities has become more intensive, that is obvious in the rankings. Entering the RUR ranking shows not only the place of Irkutsk State University among other Russian universities, but also the challenges the University faces: we need to promote our scientists’ research results more actively’- Konstantin Grigorichev, ISU Vice-Rector for Research and Iinternational Cooperation, commented on.