The new release of Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, published at the beginning of August 2014, included more than 22000 higher education institutions. Aim of the Ranking is to motivate both higher education institutions and professional and teaching staff to increase academic web presence, in order to display results of their scientific-methodological activity.
59 Belarusian websites were estimated in July 2014 world ranking of higher education institutions’ websites. It should be mentioned that in general position of most Belarusian higher education institutions has improved compared with the January Ranking, in particular, Minsk University of Management improved its position by 1204 points.
This is already the fifth release of the ranking which includes website of Minsk University of Management. Website of Minsk University of Management holds high standing in the ranking among websites of Belarusian institutions of higher education. Website of the university in July 2014 ranking took 5027 place in the world and 15th place in Belarus.
Methodology of the ranking still includes the following composite indicator:
Activity (50%)
Visibility (50%)
Website of Minsk University of Management takes 768 place in the world in terms of Openness indicator (fifth place among Belarusian HEIs), which indicates high assessment of the content of the electronic library of the university and educational-methodological publications placed on the university’s website.
Detailed information about the results of the July 2014 ranking http://www.webometrics.info/en/Europe/Belarus.
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