Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering was among the top hundred Russian universities according to Forbes.
The rating of Russian establishments of higher education, compiled by Forbes Magazine, was formed on the basis of monitoring data on the performance of more than 600 Russian universities prepared by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
The universities were evaluated on 10 parameters, divided into three groups: the quality of education, the demand for graduates in the labor market and the Forbes factor. It took into account not only the quality of education, but also the data on the employment of graduates, their relevance in the regions, as well as the share of entrepreneurs in the total number graduated from the university. Also, the compilers of the rating studied the biographies of more than 1,600 representatives of the Russian elite and found out which universities they had graduated from.