Saint-Petersburg State University entered the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) of Shanghai University of Jiao Tong and took the second place among the universities of Russia (after MSU). In the direction of Business Administration SPbU took 301-400 places. A total of more than 2,500 universities were evaluated.

 In the framework of the Shanghai ARWU rating, educational institutions are evaluated according to six criteria:

•  the number of alumni — laureates of the Nobel Prize or the Fields Prize,
• the number of employees — laureates of Nobel Prize or Field Prize,
• the number of highly cited researchers,
• articles published in journals Nature and Science,
• the indexes of citing scientific articles,
• the academic output of the university in relation to the number of employees.

Every year ARWU ranks among the top 100 universities in the world. This year ARWU noted nine Russian universities with the most successful results of scientific activity. St. Petersburg University maintained its high performance and holds the second position among Russian universities, giving way only to Lomonosov Moscow State University. You can view the results of the rating here.