The partner of the Championship is in the top 5 best universities according to Forbes

Russian Forbes has published a new ranking of Russia's leading universities. NUST MISIS, which is a partner of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, entered the TOP 5 of the rating, showing the best result according to the criterion of "Demand for graduates".

University students regularly take part in the CASE-IN championship, presenting their innovative projects to experts from the country's largest industry companies, and become the winners of the prestigious project. The current year was no exception. In the main season of the championship, two NUST MISIS student teams won gold medals at once: MFH won an unconditional victory in the field of Metallurgy, and Commune won in Mining.

In the 2021 ranking, Russian universities were evaluated according to three parameters: "Quality of education", "Quality of networking", "Demand for graduates". Each university could receive up to 10 additional points according to the "International Recognition" metric, which took into account the university's presence in three leading foreign rankings: QS WUR, THE and ARWU. NUST MISIS showed the most noticeable growth according to two criteria: "Quality of education" and "Demand for graduates."

The "Quality of education" metric It was based on monitoring data from the Ministry of Education and included two parameters: the quality of teaching and international activities. As in the previous year, the quality of teaching was assessed based on the salaries of the teaching staff and the ratio of teachers to students. In addition, this year a new parameter was added that evaluates the personnel potential of the university — the proportion of young teachers.

The criterion of "Demand for graduates" It was formed based on responses from companies that are among the best employers in Russia. They were asked the following questions: graduates of which universities they hired in 2020-2021, graduates of which universities received salary increases and/or positions in 2020-2021, graduates of which universities they would like to hire as a priority. The questionnaires were filled out by 35 companies, including Yandex, ALROSA, Tinkoff Bank, Sibur, Splat, Polyus, Rostelecom, Rosatom, Mail.ru Group, Megafon, etc.

NUST MISIS currently cooperates with more than 1,600 Russian and foreign companies that are leaders in their industries, including United Metallurgical Company, Metalloinvest, Severstal, Norilsk Nickel, SUEK, BEBER, Rosatom, IBM, Huawei, Mail.ru Group, Yandex and many others. Together with business partners, the university implements educational programs based on a modular principle: theoretical knowledge is complemented by practical cases from leading technology companies. Huawei ICT Academy and Big Data Academy have been created on the basis of NUST MISIS Mail.ru Group, launched joint educational programs with Sberbank.

Thanks to the active involvement of employers in the life of the university, NUST MISIS students have the opportunity to complete internships and internships at business partner enterprises with the possibility of further employment, and solve real production cases. This contributes to the formation of technology entrepreneurship skills, which allows them to create small innovative enterprises, including with the support of the university. The formed innovation belt of the university includes more than 30 small innovative enterprises founded by its graduates.

One of NUST MISIS' key partners in this field is the Moscow City Department of Education and Science. University students regularly take part in events and projects of the Department, such as StudFest 2020, SprintUp, etc., becoming winners and prize-winners of competitions for aspiring entrepreneurs.

The criterion of "Quality of networking" evaluates the overall level of students enrolled in the university and the opportunity to form useful connections in the learning process. The metric includes two parameters: the average score of the Unified State Exam and the Forbes factor, which takes into account, among other things, the presence in the university of the winners of the rating of young and successful Russians according to Forbes "30 under 30".

NUST MISIS currently ranks 4th among technical universities in terms of demand among graduates, according to the Admission Quality Monitoring. According to the results of the 2020 admission campaign, the average USE score for university applicants was 88.4 points (74.6 in 2013). More than 72% of last year's first—year students have an average EXAM score in three subjects of 250 and above, 33% have a certificate with honors, 16% of applicants are winners and prize-winners of Olympiads.

Young university scientists have repeatedly become winners and prize-winners of the Forbes "30 under 30" rating. In 2019, Alexey Fedorov, a senior researcher at the NTI Quantum Communications Center at NUST MISIS, became the winner in the Science nomination, and Danila Saranin, Deputy head of the Advanced Solar Energy Laboratory, was shortlisted for the 2021 rating..

The full version of the rating can be found on the website Forbes.

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