Project 5-100
Project 5-100 is a special government run program to develop major Russian universities. The program was launched by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Project 5-100 was aimed to improve the prestige of Russian higher education and bring at least five universities from among the project participants into the hundred best universities in the world according to the three most authoritative world rankings: Quacquarelli Symonds, Times Higher Education or Academic Ranking of World Universities.