Siberian Federal University

QS-Stars rating is about helping the students from all over the world to get some information about various universities and to find the best places for education, research, emplyment and sports. The company ranks universities by 51 different areas which include statistical data and the results of employers' and researchers' surveys.

The universities accredited by QS company get from 1 to 5+ stars. According to SibFU's Deputy Vice Rector (Research and International Collaboration) Eugenia Turtapkina, it was for the first time that SibFU chose to take part in QS-Stars rating and it immediately received three stars. «When we started this work we benchmarked the university against 1 star and we intended to get two stars in 2015. The fact that the university received three stars at the very beginning of our involvement is a great achievement of the university's faculty and staff».

QS-Stars rating only involves three other Russian universities: MGIMO university, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod and Higher School of Economics.

According to Eugenia Turtapkina, the universities that plan to get QS-Stars accreditation are required to submit the necessary document on their international collaboration, teaching performance, publishing activity, patenting activity, partnerships with leading universities, graduates' employability, university infrastructure, social projects. The company also required the university to submit a list of accredited teaching programmes included in their priority list.

«An important indicator from QS-Stars rating is the degree of students' satisfaction with educational services and teaching quality.», — Deputy Vice Rector said. QS survey that was conducted from 1 May 2013 involved 1,500 students studying various subjects at Siberian Federal University.