Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of Universities, is a global university ranking system based on a combined metric that takes into account both the volume of web content (number of pages and files) and the apparent impact of these publications on external citations.
Participation in international rankings is one of the directions of Vitebsk State Technological University development, which allows the university to be included into the international educational environment, to coordinate educational and research processes with international rules and standards in the field of education. Monitoring the rating of EI «VSTU» allows you to adjust the areas of the university educational and scientific activities.
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities - 2026
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is calculated by the Cybermetrics research group, which is the part of the Spanish National Research Council. Webometrics analyzes the presence of universities on the Internet, including scientific publications. According to the rating developers, the indicators used make it possible to create a fairly complete picture of university teachers and researchers activities.
According to the rating, EI «VSTU» 6947th in the world out of more than 32,000 institutions of higher education.
Webometrics ranking criteria
| INDICATORS | MEANING | METHODOLOGY | SOURCE | WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRESENCE | This indicator has been discontinued | |||
| VISIBILITY | Number of external networks (subnets) linking to the institution's webpages (normalized and then the average value is chosen) | Web contents Impact | Majestic |
50% |
| TRANSPARENCY (or OPENNESS) |
Top cited researchers | Number of citations from Top 310 authors (EXCLUDING THE FIRST 20) | Google Scholar Profiles |
10% |
| EXCELLENCE (or SCHOLAR) | Top cited papers | Number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited in each one of the all 27 disciplines of the full database Data for the five year period: 2019-2023 |
Scimago | 40% |
The university rankings are published every six months (January and July)
Dynamics of the rating of EI «VSTU»
| Year | Ranking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July | January | |||
| RB | World | RB | World | |
| 2026 | 15 | 6947 | ||
| 2025 | 12 | 3239 | 20 | 7135 |
| 2024 | 23 | 7109 | 10 | 4949 |
| 2023 | 9 | 5105 | 7 | 4860 |
| 2022 | 11 | 5240 | 15 | 5546 |
| 2021 | 8 | 4454 | 18 | 5641 |
| 2020 | 8 | 4454 | 9 | 4743 |
| 2019 | 11 | 5428 | 12 | 6312 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6206 | 21 | 8580 |
| 2017 | 10 | 5322 | 8 | 4853 |
| 2016 | 7 | 4352 | 8 | 4250 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3941 | ||
The UniRank rating (formerly «4 International Colleges & Universities», 4icu) is a webometric ranking of universities, determined only by the popularity and traffic of sites and makes a list of 14 013 universities and colleges in 200 countries.
48 Belarusian institutions of higher education are in the rating.
EI «VSTU» takes 15 st place in the Republic of Belarus (6311 th place in the world).
2025 Belarusian University Ranking
The rating is calculated using a special formula based on the data of the following web metrics:
- Moz Domain Authority
- Alexa Global Rank
- SimilarWeb Global Rank
- Majestic Referring Domains
- Majestic trust flow