Anatoly Bataev had one of the best results among the heads of more than 160 regional Russian universities. The National Foundation for Support of Innovations in Education published the rectors' performance rating. All the universities in the rating are within the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation jurisdiction.
The rating takes into account six indicators based on the results of 2020: the average Unified State Examination students' score, the proportion of undergraduates and postgraduates; the proportion of foreign students; growth rate of income from research-and-development works per employee and the number of publications and citations in Web of Science and Scopus per 100 employees of the university.
The rating is divided into two groups: Moscow and St. Petersburg rectors (47 universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg) and regional universities rectors (169 remaining universities).
Anatoly Bataev, NSTU NETI rector, made it to the top-10 rating of regional universities heads along with Eduard Galazhinsky (Tomsk State University), Oleg Polukhin (Belgorod National Research University), Ilshat Gafurov (Kazan Federal University), Nikolay Morozkin (Bashkir State University), Inna Shevchenko (Southern Federal University) and others. At the end of 2018 and 2019 Anatoly Bataev also made it to this top-10 rating as well as the top-10 rating of researching rectors and became the best rector of a Technical University in Russia.
Mikhail Fedoruk, the rector of Novosibirsk State University, is also in this top-10 rating. Mikhail Strikhanov (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Vladimir Vasiliev (ITMO University) and Alevtina Chernikova (MISIS National University of Science and Technology) headed the group of Moscow and St. Petersburg rectors.
As the rating compilers noted, the choice of the leaders is easy to explain. The top-10 includes the heads of the leading universities: national research, federal, flagship universities (both for regions and for industries), the participants of the 5-100 and Tochka Sborki (Integration Point) project as well as active participants of academic and research centers' projects and Mega Science projects.
Thus, NSTU NETI is a center for training and creating research technologies for the promising synchrotron radiation source SKIF, which is currently being built near Novosibirsk.