General information on ranking

Name of the ranking	MosIUR "The Three University Missions" - Moscow International University Ranking
Geographical scope	Global
Name of person in charge of ranking	Dmitry Grishankov
E-mail of person in charge of ranking	contact@mosiur.org
Website of the ranking	https://mosiur.org/ranking
Publication frequency	annual
First year of publication	2017
Most recent year of publication	2023
Date of last update	2024-05-05
Ranking organization	Association of Rating Makers (ARM)
Website of the methodology	https://mosiur.org/methods/methodology
Methodology	Moscow International University Ranking "The Three University Missions" assesses higher education institutions according to the three traditional missions of universities: education, research, and the relation between the university and the local community, which is now getting increasingly important as a condition of sustained development of regions. The ranking uses only objective criteria approved by the international experts. Reputation surveys are entirely excluded from consideration. MosIUR Ranking uses 16 indicators grouped into three areas: Education (45%), including: Number of wins in international student contests by the university students (7%). Share of international students in the total number of students (8%). University budget to student ratio (15%). Student to academic staff ratio (15%).   Research (25%), including: IREG List awards won by university academic Staff and alumni (7%). Average normalised citation impact (global level) (10%). Average normalised citation impact (national level) (3%). Research income per academic staff member (5%).   University & Society (30%), including: Amount of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) (6%). University's share in its country's total academic publications (4%). Total pages of a university's website indexed by the leading search engines (3%). Views of the university's page on Wikipedia (1%). University's followers in social media (3%). Number of the university's graduates with an individual article on Wikipedia (7%). University website reach (4%). Transparency (Informational openness and quality of information policies) (2%).

Additional information

• Type of publication: internet
• Internet users access to ranking: open access
• Language of publication: English
• Main target groups: higher education institutions, policymakers, governments and funding agencies, quality assurance, accreditation, and recognition organizations, students and parents
• Level of comparison: institutional: 2000
• Major dimensions covered: internationalization, research, social engagement, teaching, web presence
• Structure of presentation: ordinary presentation (league tables)
• Data sources: open data from official websites of universities and national authorities, data from independent international sources: the largest aggregator of online course platforms Class Central, mass education platforms “Open Education” (Russia) and icourse163.org , "Wikipedia", search engines Google, Yandex, Baidu, social networks Facebook*, X (formerly Twitter**), VK, Sina Weibo, YouTube, Telegram, Similarweb company, websites of international student olympiads, bibliometric data providers, websites of academic awards from the IREG List of International Academic Awards;
• Quality assurance of ranking: periodic consultancy
• Website of the ranking organization: https://asrro.ru
• Types of the ranking organization: private, non-profit
• Types of rankings: global