The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation has published an updated M-Rate for January 2022. It is a media activity ranking of higher education institutions. VSU took 17th place in terms of the effectiveness of universities’ official websites (Index Site ranking). This index is based on such factors as the audience of the site, the time users spend on it, the number of visits per month, and bounce rate.
The leaders in the Index Site ranking were the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, and Belgorod State University (1st, 2nd, and 3rd places respectively).
The overall M-Rate is based on three indices: the university’s mass media performance (Index Mass Media), the effectiveness of its social media (Index Social), and the official website (Index Site). Each of the three indices is calculated separately and has a specific weight in the overall M-Rate formula. The total ranking includes 219 higher education institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia. The Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin retained the leading position, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics took 2nd place, and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia took 3rd place.
