Website of Minsk Institute of Management in the Top Ten of The

Website of Minsk Institute of Management in the top ten of the most popular websites of Belarusian higher educational institutions according to the 4 International Colleges & Universities ranking

4 International Colleges & Universities (4ICU) is an international educational portal, containing information about 11 307 accredited universities and colleges in 200 different countries of the world.

The aim of this website is to provide an approximate popularity ranking of world Universities and Colleges based upon the popularity of their websites. This is intended to help international students and academic staff to understand how popular a specific University/College is in a foreign country.

The prime aim of 4ICU rankings (published since 2005) is to provide an approximate popularity ranking of world Universities and Colleges based upon the popularity of their websites. The quality of educational programs as well as academic success of the institution of higher education is set aside, as it is defined by the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions.

During the process of making current 4ICU ranking five unaffected web-metrics were used:

● Google Page Rank – is a numerical quantity, which considers the importance of webpage, estimated byGoogle. ● Alexa Traffic Rank – site rank, based on the volume of registered traffic with the help of Alexa Toolbar. ● Majestic Seo Referring Domains – number of top-level domains that link to analyzed sites. ● Majestic Seo Citation Flow – numerical value that characterizes the credibility of the site, depending on the number of links to it. ● Majestic Seo Trust Flow – numerical value that characterizes the reliability of the site, depending on the inclination of reputable sites to link to it.

4ICU ranking is published twice a year: in January and July. The best among our neighboring countries are sites of Moscow State University (120), University of Warsaw (300), Vilnius University (664), University of Latvia (825), and Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University (1163).

48 sites of Belarusian higher education institutions are appraised in the January 2014 ranking. Website of Minsk Institute of Management takes 4465 place in the world and 7th place among Belarusian HEIs. Results of the January 2014 ranking are presented in the table below.

Changes in the world Position in Position Institution of higher education ranking the world in Belarus since July 2013

Belarusian State University 1271 1 -473

Belarusian National Technical University 3171 2 +593

International Sakharov Environmental 3538 3 +2108 University

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno 3714 4 +606

Belarusian State Medical University 4196 5 -34

Polesie State University 4258 6 -608

Minsk Institute of Management 4465 7 -593

Belarusian State University of Informatics and 4474 8 -261 Radioelectronics

Belarusian State Economic University 4764 9 -1656

Polotsk State University 5168 10 +83

Belarusian State Pedagogical University 5199 11 +352

Grodno State Medical University 5473 12 -352

Gomel State University 5483 13 +504

Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 5646 14 +643

Belarusian State Technological University 5663 15 +358

Mogilev State University 5709 16 +719 Brest State Technical University 5768 17 +279

Belarusian State University of Transport 5845 18 +368

Higher State College of Communications 5874 19 +369

Belarusian State Academy of Music 5890 20 +402

Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of 5986 21 -164 Belarus

Grodno State Agrarian University 5998 22 +603

Brest State University 6206 23 -26

Gomel Engineering Institute, Ministry of 6250 24 +3381 Emergencies of Belarus

Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts 6316 25 +418

Belarusian-Russian University 6353 26 -160

Vitebsk State Technological University 6415 27 -936

Gomel State Technical University 6443 28 +564

Belarusian State University of Physical Culture 6622 29 +140

Vitebsk State Medical University 6654 30 -77

Belarusian State Agricultural Academy 6980 31 -857

BIP-Institute of Law 7196 32 +94

Baranovichi State University 7402 33 -1079

Institute of Modern Knowledge 7642 34 -1419

Vitebsk State University 7731 35 -1338

Mogilev State University of Food Technologies 8016 36 -1401 Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University 8100 37 -1561

Minsk State Linguistic University 8308 38 -149

Mozyr State Pedagogical University 8547 39 +686

Institute of Parliamentarism and Private 8604 40 -1413 Enterprise

Belarusian Trade and Economics University of 8821 41 +9 Consumer Cooperatives

Belarusian State Academy of Arts 8823 42 -1396

Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine 8858 43 +274

Minsk State Higher Radiotechnical College 8907 44 -212

Minsk State Higher Aviation College 8957 45 -112

Gomel State Medical University 9057 46 +655

Institute of Management and Business 9381 47 -2063

ENVILA Women's Institute 9627 48 -1962

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