Mechanisms to Enhance the International Competitiveness of the University

Improving the competitiveness of the leading Russian universities is an important task for the state. Presidential Decree N 599 of May 7, 2012 set the goal to bring "by 2020 at least five Russian universities in the first hundred of the world's leading universities according to world ranking of universities." In accordance with the Government of the Russian Federation on March 16, 2013 ¹ 211 was formed by the International Council for increasing the competitiveness of the leading universities of the Russian Federation made significant investments to support the 15 Russian universities that the government considered worthy to join the fight for the title of best universities of the world.