Round University Ranking (RUR Ranking) is a Moscow, Russia-based world university ranking, assessing effectiveness of 700 leading world universities based on 20 indicators distributed among 4 key dimension areas: teaching, research, international diversity, and financial sustainability.
700 universities were evaluated in the RUR 2016 edition, including 91 higher education institutions of the BRICS economies.
The RUR rankings are based entirely on InCites, the evaluation and benchmarking engine from Thomson Reuters for scientific research.
The raw data for RUR Ranking is provided within a special annual survey run by Thomson Reuters - Global Institutional Profiles Project (GIPP).
[4][5] Altogether there are 20 indicators divided into four groups: teaching, research, international diversity and financial sustainability.