Russian Rating agency RAEX produced the rating lists of Top-50 universities split into such categories as 'Engineering, Natural Sciences and Hard Sciences', 'Economics and Management', 'Engineering and Technologies', 'Mathematics and Natural Sciences', ‘Arts and Social Sciences’ and ‘Medicine’.
NSTU is the only university of Novosibirsk and the second Siberian university among the first 10 Russian universities in the category 'Engineering and Technologies'. It has improved its position from the 9th to the 7th in comparison with its position in 2016.
During the period of two years NSTU has outperformed such leading Russian universities as National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Ural Federal University named after the first Russian president B.N. Yeltzin. NSTU lacked some score to outperform National Research University ‘Moscow Power Engineering Institute’ and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University).
Also, NSTU prestigiously ranks the 11th among Top-50 universities in category 'Engineering, Natural Sciences and Hard Sciences', following leading Moscow universities and national research universities of Novosibirsk and Tomsk. In this rating NSTU outperformed National Research University ‘Moscow Power Engineering Institute’, Ural Federal University named after the first Russian president B.N. Yeltzin, National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Higher School of Economics and Kazan Federal University. In this category NSTU maintained the position of 2016.
The four regional clusters characterized by high standard of teaching are identified under the category 'Engineering, Natural Sciences and Hard Sciences'. These are Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Tomsk clusters. These regions have 50 % of the Top-50 Russian universities specialized in 'Engineering, Natural Sciences and Hard Sciences' (namely 25 out of 50 enlisted ones).