On 11th December Internet edition «The Capital of the Country» declared the results of a ranking of scientific and practical effectiveness of higher education institutions of Russia. 

«St. Petersburg national research university of information technologies, mechanics and optics» (ITMO) took the sixth place in TOP 100, having outran such Universities as Moscow State University of Lomonosov, Moscow School of Management «SKOLKOVO», St. Petersburg state polytechnical university and others. 

This ranking is the author's development realized by research group with financial support of the Russian humanitarian scientific fund (project No. 12-02-00169a). 

You can review a methodology of creation of the rating on a web-site: http://kapital-rus.ru/articles/article/240296/