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YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY LEADS IN THE REGION
news.am
Sept 6 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - The results published by Webometrics Ranking of World
Universities shows that according to the international ranking Yerevan
State University (YSU) is the leading university in the region.
Webometrics is one of the best raters in the world, it rates nearly
20,000 universities worldwide, including 5,000 European, 6,000 Asian,
and 7,000 American universities.
Four main criteria is taken into account: the number of official
website mentions in the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engines; external
links to the universities website; the number of Adobe Acrobat (pdf),
Adobe PostScript (ps), Microsoft Power point (ppt) format files;
and links to the works of the university professors).
"The first three points describe the official website of the
university, and the forth one shows the real potential of the
professors, that is, how visible are their work on the website"
says the YSU Academic Affairs Vice-Rector Alexander Grigoryan.
A year ago YSU occupied 4,392th place, in the beginning of this year
it was on 4,651th place, however, in the summer it reached to the
2,856th place, and later YSU becomes the leader in the region.
Presently YSU occupies the 1,051th place among 20,000 universities.
Azerbaijan's highest-rated "Khazar University" occupies the 6,211th
place, Baku's state university the 11,736th place, and Georgia's
leading "Ilia State University" has appeared on the 5,915th place. It
should be mentioned that the national universities of the neighboring
countries are significantly lower in their ranking than the private
ones.
news.am
Sept 6 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - The results published by Webometrics Ranking of World
Universities shows that according to the international ranking Yerevan
State University (YSU) is the leading university in the region.
Webometrics is one of the best raters in the world, it rates nearly
20,000 universities worldwide, including 5,000 European, 6,000 Asian,
and 7,000 American universities.
Four main criteria is taken into account: the number of official
website mentions in the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engines; external
links to the universities website; the number of Adobe Acrobat (pdf),
Adobe PostScript (ps), Microsoft Power point (ppt) format files;
and links to the works of the university professors).
"The first three points describe the official website of the
university, and the forth one shows the real potential of the
professors, that is, how visible are their work on the website"
says the YSU Academic Affairs Vice-Rector Alexander Grigoryan.
A year ago YSU occupied 4,392th place, in the beginning of this year
it was on 4,651th place, however, in the summer it reached to the
2,856th place, and later YSU becomes the leader in the region.
Presently YSU occupies the 1,051th place among 20,000 universities.
Azerbaijan's highest-rated "Khazar University" occupies the 6,211th
place, Baku's state university the 11,736th place, and Georgia's
leading "Ilia State University" has appeared on the 5,915th place. It
should be mentioned that the national universities of the neighboring
countries are significantly lower in their ranking than the private
ones.