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Многомерное ранжирование как инструмент оценки многообразия функций университетов
The chapter analyses the experience of evaluation of modern universities’ internationalization. Special focus is given to the systems of indicators used for evaluation of international activities within various academic rankings. Drawing from analysis of the most popular global, regional and national single- and multidimensional academic rankings the authors argue that the number of indicators, that are reliable and relevant for evaluation of university international activities, is limited and doesn’t reflect modern development processes in higher education. The authors stress the importance of further development of the internationalization’s evaluation within different approaches, in particular multi-dimensional rankings practices, where internationalization is considered as one of the key institutional function. Based on the analysis of the approbation outcomes of the Template Methodology of Russian HEIs Multidimensional Ranking, the authors describe the differentiation processes occur in the Russian Higher Education system. Level of internationalization of Russian HEIs is seen as a possible criterion of their further differentiation