Globally thinking employers turn to graduates of Russian universities
In October RUDN hosted an international conference “HEI and employers: effective cooperation for attracting, training and employing international students” and “BRICS: Cooperation for development. Network universities and international labor market” as well as a round table with representatives of associations of foreign graduates.
In October RUDN hosted an international conference “HEI and employers: effective cooperation for attracting, training and employing international students” and “BRICS: Cooperation for development. Network universities and international labor market” as well as a round table with representatives of associations of foreign graduates.
Representatives of academic community from 44 HEIs in 17 Russian cities and towns, 28 foreign universities (including BRICS, EU, SCO and EAEC countries) spent three days discussing challenging issues of training highly effective staff in Russian HEIs and strengthening cooperation between Russian universities and foreign employers.
All the parties unanimously agreed that it is important to continue the dialogue between universities and enterprises. There are examples of fruitful cooperation. One of them is “Rostekh” corporation interested in training staff for its enterprises in Russia and rep offices in 51 countries, especially IT specialists. The same approach is practiced in “Rosatom” implementing more than 350 educational programs in power engineering. In 2016, students from 37 countries came to Russian HEIs to study and further work in their native countries- partners of “Rosatom” (to compare, in 2015 there were 27 countries and 15 in 2014). V.Karezin, Director for Rosatom educational programs said that he saw big potential in cooperation with foreign students associations.
O.Syomina, Deputy managing director of “Domodedovo Training” spoke about the long-term staff program and training students with their further employment.
RUDN University has good traditions of cooperating with Alumni associations. RUDN Alumni association unites more than 90,000 graduates working in over 170 countries of the world.
L.Efremova, RUDN Vice-Rector for academic mobility, said that “employing RUDN students is a key long-term goal”.
The event was held in the frame of “5-100” project.
The new list of federal innovation sites (FIS) of the Russian Federation includes 30 new organizations. Among them is the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. This became possible thanks to the development of the Digital Preparatory Faculty of RUDN University.
RUDN rose to the 26th position in the UI GreenMetric 2022 ranking and confirmed the status of the “greenest” university in Russia. The ranking includes 1,050 world universities, of which 52 are Russian.
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia is represented in all 16 subject rankings and in five out of six subject profiles of the Expert Analytical Center ranking. RUDN University showed the best results in the following areas: “Ecology” and “Agriculture and Biological Sciences” — 1st place. “Mathematics”, “Chemistry”, “Artificial Intelligence”, “Renewable Energy” are in the TOP — 5 subject ranking. In total, 152 universities were ranked in 2022 (137 in 2021).