Interfax, QS rate best universities in CIS

International information group Interfax and rating company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a recognized university comparison leader, have ranked the best universities among the CIS countries. The methodology for the rating is similar to the method used by QS, which has many years‘ experience in compiling its global university rankings.

Ranking	Name	Country	Score, points
1	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	100
2	Belarusian State University	Belarus	60
3	St. Petersburg State University	Russia	47
4	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv	Ukraine	46
5	Vilnius University	Lithuania	40
6	Novosibirsk National Research University	Russia	36
7+	People‘s Friendship University of Russia	Russia	32
7+	Bauman Moscow State Technical University - National Research University	Russia	32
9+	University of Tartu	Estonia	28
9+	National Research State University of Tomsk	Russia	28
11+	Yerevan State University	Armenia	27
11+	National Research Nuclear University MEPhI	Russia	27
12+	National Research Polytechnical University of Tomsk	Russia	26
12+	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)	Russia	26
12+ S	Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Russian Health Ministry	Russia	26
12+	Kazan Federal University	Russia	26
17	Ural Federal University named after the first president of Russia B.N. Yeltsin	Russia	24
18+	St. Petersburg National Research State Polytechnical University	Russia	22
18+	Moscow State Institute of International Relations (university) of the Russian Foreign Ministry	Russia	22
20+	Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod	Russia	21
20+	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University	Kazakhstan	21
22	Novosibirsk State Technical University	Russia	20
23	Siberian Federal University	Russia	19