Caucasus University joins world`s top 700 universities

According to “QS World University Rankings 2011”, the Caucasus University of Azerbaijan was 601st among the world`s 700 top universities. The ranking list included 712 universities after surveying 2919 ones. The list featured 80 new universities this year. The Central European and post-Soviet countries are home to 18 of them.

According to the recent UNESCO conference in Paris, there are 20 000 universities in the world now and 700 top universities are considered as elite higher education centers, which accounts for 4 % of the total number of universities.

QS World University Rankings was founded by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), which is a company specializing in education and study abroad.


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