RUDN in 601-800 group of Times Higher Education global ranking (THE)
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings provide the definitive list of the world's best universities, evaluated across teaching, research, international outlook, reputation and more – all in all 13 indicators. RUDN has made a breakthrough due to improvement in 8 out of 13 indicators, which in general significantly improved the "Teaching" indicator (from 740th place in 2017 to 239th in 2018), "International outlook" (from 531st to 244th place) and "Citation" (from 1,072nd to 995th).
The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) again has the name of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who has become a symbol of the African peoples’ struggle for independence. This was announced on Thursday by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
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.