Internationalization of higher education: A case of Russian universities

Abstract

Our paper tackles the long-discussed processes of internationalization and globalization that is taking place in the sphere of higher education. We determine the levels and the attributes of internalization management of higher education on the global, national, and institutional level. Our fi ndings show that the main problems of Russian education are embedded into its integration into the global education area. We formulate these fi ndings in the structured and holistic form. In addition, we carry out the comprehensive evaluation of attractiveness of Russian education in the world according to the student mobility criteria. We employ the quantitative evaluation of universities’ internationalization level and its implementation using Russian top universities included in the QS World University Ranking as an example. Moreover, we propose a method for evaluating the internationalization level of universities that is universal and can be applied not only to Russian universities but on the wider world-wide level.