According to the Version of the 4 International Colleges

According to the version of the 4 International Colleges & Universities portal Minsk Institute of Management has significantly boosted its position in the global ranking of universities websites

4 International Colleges & Universities (4ICU) is an international educational portal, containing information about more than 11100 accredited universities and colleges in 200 different countries of the world.

It is worth to be mentioned that 4ICU ranking ( unlike, for example,Ranking Web of World universities don’t access academic achievements of the institutions of higher education as it is stated by Berlin principles on ranking of higher education institutions.

The main aim of 4ICU ranking is to provide consumers with rough estimate of the popularity of the world’s universities and colleges, according to the popularity of the institution’s website. The quality of educational programs as well as academic success of the institution of higher education is set aside.

During the process of making 4ICU ranking three unaffected web-metrics are used:

Google Page Rank– is a numerical quantity, which considers the importance of webpage, estimated by:

● Yahoo Inbound Links – the number of back links to the website of university obtained with the help of Yahoo! Siteexplorer service. ● Alexa Traffic Rank – site rank, based on the volume of registered traffic with the help of Alexa Toolbar.

Detailed information about methods of 4ICU ranking you can get by link.

4ICU ranking is published twice a year: in January and July. According to January’s ranking world leaders are USA universities: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University. Number one among Latin American universities is National Independent University of Mexico (15th place). Number one among European universities – University of Cambridge (18th place), among Asian universities – University of Beijing (53). According to the ranking, best among our neighbour-countries are: University of Warsaw (291), Moscow State University (317), Vilnius University (551), Latvian University (581) and National Technical University of Ukraine (1718).

48 Belarusian websites were estimated in January ranking. For the past six month website of Minsk Institute of Management boosted its positions by 2889 points and took 3087 place in the world ranking and 3rd place among Belarusian universities (inJuly 2011 ranking Minsk Institute of Management took 5976th place in the world and 10th among the Belarusian universities.)

The results of the January 2012 ranking are presented in the table below.

Change in world Position Position Institution of higher education rankings in world in Belarus since July 2011

Belarusian State University 1366 1 -135

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno 2102 2 +706

Minsk Institute of Management 3086 3 +2890

Belarusian State Economic University 4354 4 +1471

Belarusian National Technical University 4912 5 -554

Grodno State Medical University 4938 6 -3

Belarusian State Medical University 5132 7 -1215

Brest State Technical University 5269 8 -54

International Sakharov Environmental University 5512 9 +2379

Belarusian State Academy of Music 5557 10 +2135

Belarusian State University of Informatics and 5624 11 -2431 Radioelectronics

Vitebsk State University 6494 12 -374

Polotsk State University 6814 13 -2008 Brest State University 6962 14 +340

Minsk State Linguistic University 7165 15 -118

Grodno State Agrarian University 7497 16 -288

Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the 7505 17 -575 President of the Republic of Belarus

Belarusian State University of Physical Culture 7548 18 +218

Higher State College of Communications 7583 19 +1739

Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts 7631 20 -55

Gomel State University 7644 21 -961

Baranovichi State University 7655 22 -322

Belarusian State Agricultural Academy 7676 23 +87

Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University 7743 24 -198

Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine 7765 25 +88

Belarusian-Russian University 7846 26 +1701

Belarusian State Technological University 7924 27 +1540

Belarusian State Pedagogical University 8024 28 +1429

Institute of Parliamentarism and Private Enterprise 8038 29 +740

Polesie State University 8079 30 -549

Vitebsk State Medical University 8134 31 -101

Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 8155 32 +1246

Vitebsk State Technological University 8162 33 -117 Mogilev State University 8163 34 -122

Belarusian State University of Transport 8164 35 -139

Belarusian State Academy of Arts 8174 36 +1746

Gomel State Technical University 8635 37 +854

Belarusian Trade and Economics University of 8873 38 -1849 Consumer Cooperatives

Institute of Management and Business 8895 39 +336

Minsk State Higher Radiotechnical College 9037 40 +1024

ENVILA Women's Institute 9246 41 -325

Mozyr State Pedagogical University 9306 42 +757

Institute of Modern Knowledge 9360 43 +692

Minsk State Higher Aviation College 9368 44 -263

Mogilev State University of Food Technologies 9467 45 +689

Gomel Engineering Institute, Ministry of Emergencies of 9508 46 -78 Belarus

Gomel State Medical University 9574 47 +590

BIP-Institute of Law 10023 48 -254

Source: http://www.4icu.org/by/

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