2015-01-12
QS: VGTU is the leader of Lithuanian technical universities
QS, the publishers of the world famous international rating of universities, introduced one more ranking for assessing the emerging European and Central Asian universities.
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), among the ranking of Lithuanian universities, took the second place after Vilnius University (VU). VGTU was among fifty universities in this rating, taking the forty-seventh place. VU ranked thirty-second. Kaunas University of Technology took the third position (sixty-one to seventy). A little below was Vytautas Magnus University (eighty-one to ninety).
QS ranked about three hundred universities from thirty European and Central Asian countries – Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia and others. Moscow State University of Lomonosov is on the first place in the ranking. The next universities are Charles University in the Czech Republic and Novosibirsk State University in Russia. The fourth place goes to our neighbouring country - the University of Warsaw. The University of Tartu in Estonia and the University of Czech Republic in Prague shared the fifth and sixth places.
The best universities of the region are located in Russia (twenty-six). The second and third countries in the ranking, according to the number of Universities ranked, are the Czech Republic and Turkey – with ten universities from these countries. Poland, Kazakhstan, Hungary and the Ukraine are following them.
Rating assessed such criteria as academic reputation of the University, and the reputation among the employers. College students, international students, international faculties, doctors were also counted and University's visibility as well as biblio-metric data assessed.