RUDN University’s new successes in the field of modern languages, law, oil and gas business, and computer science ... The university strengthens its position in 11 QS rankings

The best result of RUDN University is in Modern Languages. RUDN University is in the top 100 of the world. In particular, this happened due to the fact that the number of votes of academic experts doubled over the year. Linguists from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia were voted for from European countries, India and China. RUDN University received the votes of employers from Germany and South Korea for the first time. Advances in science are also noticeable — for example, our specialized journals have become better indexed in international databases. The Russian Journal of Linguistics has already moved up to the second quartile of the Scopus database. Another RUDN journal, Rusistika (Russian Studies), has been included in the Scopus list. RUDN University linguists have relied on interdisciplinarity — they conducted research at the intersection of linguistics, pedagogy, social psychology, migration and urban studies. There are also flagship projects for the study of languages ​​in a minority situation, including migrants situations.

RUDN University entered the subject ranking for the first time in the Oil and Gas Business. The best results are in science. For 5 years, the number of scientific articles on this topic has grown by 1.5 times, and in the vast majority, this is research done by chemists. RUDN has a strong scientific school of heterocyclic reactions, which have found application, in particular, in the reactions of refining petroleum products. This is an example of the contribution of fundamental science to industrial development.

RUDN University entered the top 200 in Law. According to the ranking in the field of “Law”, RUDN University is strong in terms of academic reputation and reputation among employers. The Russian school of law began to be recognized in the world. Academic experts from Great Britain, France, and Colombia began to vote for RUDN University lawyers. For the first time, we received the votes of employers from Austria, Switzerland and South Korea. The qualitative scientometric indicators have also improved — the citation of articles of RUDN University on legal topics has increased 26 times in just one year. This is due to the selection of interdisciplinary, applied topics with international potential — for example, space law, regulation of environmental issues, protection of human rights, and legal support of the digital economy.

For the first time RUDN University entered the subject ranking in computer science. Here the competition is especially tough — 1,500 universities from all over the world are evaluated, and only 650 are included. On this topic, mathematicians of the RUDN University have published almost 600 scientific articles in recent years. Employers began to vote for RUDN University almost 3 times more. For the first time, we received votes from Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and South Korea. The flagship scientific direction of RUDN University in this area is modeling of 5G wireless networks. RUDN University researchers have created mathematical models that accurately describe the random behavior of mobile users / objects and allow taking into account hundreds of system parameters. This is especially true for cities where there are several devices with Internet access per one square meter.

In the subject ranking in Mathematics, RUDN University has shown growth in all indicators. We entered the Mathematics ranking for the first time last year and were among the top 400. This year our place is almost two times higher.