Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (KTMU) ranked 183th among the top 400 universities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) ranking. KTMU is in second place in Kyrgyzstan.

Comparatively, Manas University was ranked on 190th in 2019. This year KTMU is 15th in the Central Asia ranking. There are 27 universities from Kazakhstan, 2 from Kyrgyzstan, 4 from Uzbekistan and 1 from Tajikistan.

121 of the top 400 universities in the ranking are from Russia and 55 are from Turkey.

The ranking is prepared by evaluating universities from 29 countries according to various criteria. These criteria’s include the academic reputation index of the university, the reputation index among employers, the number of employees with a doctorate, the ratio of the citation index of scientific publications to the number of academicians, and the website usage index.

QS is known as one of the most popular university rankings in the world.