V.Potanin Charity Foundation represented Rating of Russian Universities 2016 on September 6, 2016. It differs from other national and international ratings, due to it analyzes only those universities whose students and professors are recipients of its scholarships and grants. The competition includes 75 public and private Universities in Russia. It has been held for 12 years.
The rating is a tool that estimates firstly participants of Fund’s educational programs; secondly, refreshes the list of participants and stimulates competition among them (annually 2-3 lower positions in the list are replaced by new Universities).
The Fund’s grant programs for students and professors motivate to obtain and to share knowledge, to develop teamwork skills, to improve their professional skills, to show creative approach of solving tasks.
TOP10 of the best Universites in Russia in 2016
| # | University |
| 1 | High School Of Economics |
| 2 | Petrozavodsk State University |
| 3 | Ural Federal University of B.Yeltsin |
| 4 | St-Petersburg State University |
| 5 | Kemerovo State Universit |
| 6 | Nizhny Novgorod State University of N.Lobachevsky |
| 7 | Siberian Federal University |
| 8 | Tomsk Polytechnic University |
| 9 | Novosibirsk State University |
| 10 | MGIMO |
