Methodology for calculating additional indicator 1 (AI1)
he additional indicator – “Share of master's degree and postgraduate students in total” (AI1) – is calculated as follows:
where
Q1 –Full-time master degree students as of 31 December of the reporting year;
Q2 – Full-time postgraduate students as of 31 December of the reporting year;
Q3 – Full-time tertiary specialists as of 31 December of the reporting year;
Q4 – Full-time students as of 31 December of the reporting year.
Calculation of the “Share of master's degree and postgraduate students in total” indicator includes specialists under the QS rating methodology (source: http://www.iu.qs.com/university-rankings/definitions/#toggle-id-5).
The additional indicator – “Number of educational programs implemented in partnership with leading international universities and research organisations” (AI2) – is calculated using the following method:
The number of educational programs implemented in partnership with leading international universities and research organisations and additional professional programs developed and implemented starting from 2016 using a network format in partnership with leading Russian and foreign universities and/or leading Russian and foreign research organisations and/or with the involvement of the world's leading scientists in a given field of science as of the reporting date, in delivering in-class instruction; each program is factored in only once.
The additional indicator – “Webometrics rating cumulative gain” (AI3) – is calculated using the following method:
The Webometrics ranking methodology is available on the official website: http://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology.
The ranking of universities evaluates how a university operates on the basis of its website analysis, and is calculated using the following four indicators: Presence Rank (Web-space size, 1/6 of the overall indicator); Openness Rank (Publication activity, 1/6 of the overall indicator); Excellence Rank (Scimago version of the publication activity, 1/6 of the overall indicator); and Impact Rank (Number of external links to SUSU web-space sites, ½ of the overall indicator). The highest university ranking available in two Webometrics rankings during the reporting year will be selected as the reporting indicator.
