Ural Federal University was among the 13 Russian universities represented in the top 200 of the first national rating "Three missions of the University", published today.

"Existing world university ratings do not reveal the relationship of higher education institutions with society and their impact on the regional ecosystem," said UrFU rector Viktor Koksharov. - Answers to these questions are given by the Moscow international rating ".

The universities are ranked according to 17 indicators, reflecting the three main missions of the university in the modern world: "education" (weight 45%), "science" (25%), and "university and society" (30%)..

Last Thursday at a meeting of the board of the Russian Union of Rectors, the rector of Moscow State University named after M. Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichy said that the pilot rating included 200 universities from 39 countries, only 13 universities - from Russia.

The commission to create a national university rating, which would show the society and the universities themselves the state of affairs in the university in each area of ??its activity, was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014.

Founders of the Moscow International Rating Project "Three missions of the University" - the Russian Union of Rectors and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The operator was the Association of Compilers of Ratings, the founders of which are the Expert Center, VTsIOM and other organizations.