Cooperation with Guyana on top-priority directions
Rafael Trotman, minister for natural resources, and David Paterson, minister for public infrastructure from Guyana arrived at RUDN on October 18.
The agenda of the meeting included the following issues:
The agenda of the meeting included the following issues:
-training of skilled workers for national economy of Guyana on strategic areas, such as: mining, oil and gas engineering, ecology and natural resource use.
-possibility to study in RUDN for target groups of students from Guyana;
- enhancement of cooperation between the Public University of Guyana and Agrarian Technological institute of RUDN University;
- joint effort with Ecological Faculty of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia on the international project “Days of ecology”. The main goal of the project is visiting partner –countries by head academics of RUDN to share experiences in the area of ecological safety and sending students to study ecology in RUDN.
The delegation from Guyana visited the laboratories of RUDN Agrarian-Technological Institute, the Shared Research and Educational Center and RUDN Institute of Space Technologies, learned about technical abilities and opportunities of the university and latest scientific developments.
The representatives from Guyana showed interest in presented academic programs and offers to cooperate, highlighting their willing to continue to strengthen their relationships with Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia is among the top 200 universities according to the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings 2021 (THE Emerging Economies 2021).
Only 606 leading world universities were honored to be on the list.
The QS ranking agency has presented the QS WUR by Subject 2021 rankings — lists of the best universities in the world in specific subjects. RUDN has shown rapid growth in the areas of “Modern Languages”, “Linguistics”, “Mathematics”, “Economics and Econometrics” and “Chemistry”, and for the first time entered the list of the best in the world in the subjects “Oil and Gas Business”, “Law”, " Business and Management “, and “Computer Science”.
RUDN University is on the 43rd place in the QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe & Central Asia 2021. Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia has shown the best results in the following categories: international students , student/faculty ratio, institution research collaboration and recruiter review.