The Utility of Rankings
Another advantage of a good performance in international university rankings is that graduates will be able to get into Russian postgraduate programs (if your university is in a G8 country).
Russia’s education ministry is currently drawing up a list of foreign universities whose qualifications will be recognized.
The list will include only universities located within the G8 countries that enter the top 300 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities or the QS World University Rankings. Officials say there will be around 300 institutions meeting the criteria.
The reform is intended to attract more students to take part in Russian MA and PhD programs.
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Shocking. That means plenty of highly qualified students from, say, French grandes ecoles (selective institutions that are too small to show up in these rankings) will now be excluded from postgraduate education in Russia.
That to me is the most dangerous collateral damage of these rankings. Any student with a degree from the mediocre university of Reading in the UK can now get into a selective Russian university, while a student from the prestigious INALCO, a super selective school of oriental studies in Paris similar to SOAS, will be excluded.
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