Global university rankings and Russia's quest for national sovereignty

Figures & data

Table 1. 5–100 funding and Russian universities in global university rankings.

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
No. of universities	15	14	14	21	21	21
Funding (millions of roubles)	8,700	10,150	10,140	10,927	10,521	9,908
No. of Russian universities in the ARWU top-500 (top-100) *No. in 5–100	2 (1) *0 (0)	2(1) *0 (0)	2(1) *0 (0)	3(1) *1 (0)	3(1) *1 (0)	4 (1) *2 (0)
THE top-500 (top-100) *No. of universities in 5–100	2 (0) *1	1 (0) *1	2 (0) *1	7 (0) *5	8 (0) *6	8 (0) *6 (0)
QS (top-100) *No. of universities in 5–100			10 (0) *8	9 (0) *7	11 (0) *9	13 (1) *11 (0)

Source: Funding information from the documents on the 5–100 Project website https://5top100.ru/documents/regulations/; ranking information from the ranking websites.