The international QS World University Rankings by Subject covers 54 subjects in five broad subject categories. This ranking, compiled by the international rating agency QS Quacquarelli Symonds, has become the largest QS study: it includes 1594 educational institutions from around the world.

Universities were evaluated according to five indicators, including academic reputation and the reputation of the university among employers, the demand for graduates, scientometric and other indicators. In 2023, the QS World University Rankings by Subject included a record number of universities from Russia - 55.

Since 2010, the international rating agency QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) has been conducting an independent assessment of universities from more than 80 countries. In addition to the general ranking of universities QS World University Rankings, the agency is compiling regional and industry rankings. The QS EECA ranking (Emerging Europe and Central Asia QS University Rankings) has been compiled since 2014 based on open sources, the Scopus scientometric database and the assessment of international experts.

QS Stars project from Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd rating agency is a rating system based on evaluating institutions and identifying the best among them in specific areas, such as academic development, learning environment, graduate employability, inclusiveness.

The rating is an integral assessment of the quality of training of university graduates, determined by quantitative parameters of the educational and research activities of universities and qualitative characteristics that reflect the opinion of key reference groups: employers, representatives of the academic community and the scientific community, as well as students and university graduates. Universities of creative and sports orientation, as well as universities of law enforcement agencies, cannot participate in the ranking. Held annually since 2011.

In 2020, SPbGASU took first place in the subject ranking in the field of "Construction and Architecture", confirming its high competitiveness and ahead of the National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering and the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCHI).

The full version of the subject ranking materials for 2020 is published on the RAEX website.

On 16 May, 2023, the subject ranking of universities in the field of "Civil Engineering" was published, in which the St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering took 12th place, improving last year's result by one position, with the assignment of 61.91 points. The shortlist in this subject includes 20 leading universities.

The full version of the subject ranking materials for 2023 is published on the RAEX website.

In 2023, for the first time, SPbGASU became a participant in the subject ranking in the field of "Land transport engineering and technology" and took 15th place.

The full version of the subject ranking materials for 2023 is published on the RAEX website.

The RAEX agency presented four ratings of annual reports: commercial companies, charitable and social NPOs, educational institutions, institutional and public organizations. The competition considers and evaluates public non-financial reporting of companies and organizations.

Reports of educational organizations are evaluated on a five-point scale. This or that assessment is in its own rating class, each having a certain number of stars.

The Moscow International Ranking "Three Missions of the University" has been held since 2017. In 2020, the ranking included 1,500 universities from 97 countries, including 101 from Russia. The global academic ranking evaluates universities in three missions: "Education", "Science", "University and Society". To compile the rating, only objective criteria approved by an international group of experts are used. The sources of information are open data from the official websites of universities and national authorities, as well as data from independent international sources.

The full version of the ranking materials in Russian is published in the RAEX Rating Review.

The monitoring evaluates the quality of admission to state universities in Russia, enrollment to which is carried out mainly on the basis of the results of the Unified State Examination. Primary data on the course of the admission campaign is collected from open sources - from the websites of universities. The quality of admission is assessed only in the bachelor's and specialist's studies and only full-time education. It has been held annually since 2009.

The largest online recruiting platform HeadHunter (hh.ru) presents the ranking of the best universities in Russia. It is based on the analysis of the data contained in the resumes of applicants. Evaluation of universities is carried out according to five parameters:

• the popularity of the university in its region meaning the share of the number of university graduates in the total number of university graduates in one region;
• demand for university graduates from employers meaning the average number of interview invitations received by one university graduate from employers on hh.ru in 2021–2022;
• the relative level of expected salaries of university graduates meaning the ratio of the median value of the salary indicated in the resume of university graduates to the median value of the salary indicated in the resume of university graduates of one region;
• the amount of work experience of graduates meaning the average number of months of work experience indicated in the resume of a university graduate;
• current employment meaning the share of the number of graduates whose resumes contain at least one job with an open graduation date, out of the total number of resumes of university graduates.

A university becomes a member of the ranking if at least 100 of its graduates of the last two years have up-to-date CVs on hh.ru.

The RUR ranking agency (Round University Ranking) was founded in 2013 in Moscow. It publishes international rankings of higher education institutions and provides consulting services for universities in the field of increasing competitiveness. RUR measures the performance of the world's leading universities in 20 unique metrics and four key areas of university activity: teaching, research, international diversity, financial sustainability. Since the first release, more than a thousand educational institutions from 84 countries have been marked in the ranking.

The Global Aggregate Ranking is a classification of higher education institutions ranked by the 13 most authoritative global institutional rankings and one public database of accredited programs from European and Asian quality assurance agencies. Each rating has its own goals, audience, methodology, data sources and indicators. To get an objective picture, the ratings should be considered as a whole. This task is solved by the Global Aggregate Ranking, which brings the palette of ratings to a common denominator and assesses the place and role of universities in the world educational processes.

The Russian non-profit association "Guild of Experts in the Field of Vocational Education" presents the National Aggregate Ranking (NAR). In 2023, the ranking included 686 Russian universities. The NAR methodology is based on data from 12 authoritative ratings, such as RAEX, Interfax, the Hirsch index, which meet the requirements of publicity (complete information is publicly available), stability (at least three years of existence), mass character (estimated at least 100 universities) and frequency (assessment is carried out annually). Rankings are converted into a league table: there are ten in total, starting with the Premier League.

On 22 April, 2021, the Guild of experts in the field of vocational education, in collaboration with the National Foundation for Educational Innovation Support, presented the National Aggregate Ranking by Subject. In this rating, for the first time, all 724 educational institutions of higher education of the Russian Federation were evaluated in 55 subject areas. The ranking was carried out on the basis of open data from 43 significant procedures for independent evaluation of higher education in Russia:

• five global rankings;
• 10 national rankings;
• four open data bases;
• 10 foreign and five national accreditation agencies;
• three testing centers and six centers for national olympiads.

The independent agency for accreditation and rating conducts an international ranking of higher educational institutions "IAAR Eurasian University Ranking (IAAR-EUR)". IAAR EUR ranks universities based on four criteria:

• quality of education;
• scientific potential;
• international recognition;
• academic reputation.

The ranking methodology was approved by the experts of the international audit IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.

The project of the research group of the Cybermetrics Laboratory of the Spanish National Research Council, Cybermetrics Lab, has been implemented since 2004. The rating evaluates the educational and research achievements of world universities based on an analysis of the representation of universities in the Internet space, through comparing their websites. The results are published twice a year, in January and July. The Webometrics project aims to measure all aspects of university activity.

Spanish international search engine and directory for higher education, formerly known as 4 International Colleges & Universities. Research has been conducted since May 2005. World universities are evaluated not by the quality of educational programs, but by the popularity of their sites among the global Internet audience. The goal is to give applicants, students and academics around the world an idea of how well-known an educational institution is outside their country.

The national ranking of universities in the Russian Federation demonstrates the demand for universities from the Russian economy. The study included 457 state and 114 non-state universities from 81 regions of Russia. The evaluation of universities was carried out according to such criteria as the demand for trained specialists by employers, the commercialization of the intellectual product produced by the university, as well as the demand for a research product. Held from 2016 to 2020.