Baku State University  (BSU) has become the only Azerbaijani university to break into top 1000 in the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. The QS global rankings 2020 were released on 19^th June in London. Out of more than 20,000 universities in the world, only top 1001 were ranked by QS in terms of their performance criteria. BSU ranked 801+ in the 2019-2020 rankings.

QS World University Rankings assesses universities using six performance indicators, which each carry a different weighting when calculating overall scores. These indicators are: academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, research citations, per faculty member, proportion of international faculty and proportion of international students.

Press and Information Department, July 19, 2019