On May 30, 2022, the Association of Rating Compilers and the RAEX rating agency with the support of the Russian Union of Rectors and information assistance of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, published a family subject ratings of the universities of Russia. According to the results of an independent assessment, Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design became the second in light industry in the country and also became one of the 20 leading universities in the field of training “Chemical Technologies”.
When compiling subject ratings, data from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, bibliometric data providers Clarivate Analytics and Scopus, organizers of student competitions “I am a professional”, media monitoring and analysis systems and social media SCAN–Interfax, aggregators of online courses, Alexa web analytics platform, as well as social networks were analyzed. In total, 136 universities from 41 regions of Russia were included in 29 rating.
In the local ranking of universities presented earlier by the RAEX agency in the context of the federal districts of Russia, Ƶ ranks third in the Northwest out of 35 higher educational institutions included in it.
Subject ratings have replenished the ecosystem of the "Three missions of the University". From this point of view, Ƶ is positioned in the academic and scientific community as a university involved in the development of import substitution through the introduction of its own scientific results and digital industrial design technologies into domestic production. As participant of Federal program of development “Priority 2030” the university creates cluster “SmartDesign” in the center of Saint-Petersburg with technological laboratories, presents its developments in the field of “smart” materials, fibers and textile to industrial companies, helps with implementation, takes part in the launch of students startups in the field of FashionTech and combines another universities, business and representatives of the regional authorities. This year Ƶ realizes a pilot project of Ministry of Education of Russia called “Professionalitet”. Its concept includes creation of educational and industrial cluster of light industry on the base of College of Technology, Modeling and Management in the Northern capital. The center will be oriented to the production of shoes. 100 million rubles have been allocated from the federal budget for the implementation of the project, co-financing in the amount of 10 million rubles will be provided by Ƶ, 13 million rubles by leading Saint-Petersburg shoe enterprises and factories.