In the ranking of THE “Computer Science”, SFedU fell under 601 + group out of 963 universities, which were included in the published part of the ranking.  In the ranking THE “Engineering & Technology”, SFedU took a place in the group 601-800 out of 903 leading world universities.

In the field of computer science, SFedU conducts advanced research on the problems of artificial intelligence and computer security, machine learning and digital signal processing, big data processing and material properties modeling.

Engineering research in SFedU is carried out in the areas of marine and aviation engineering, radio and equipment engineering, robotics, distributed systems, smart control systems and navigation.

Times Higher Education rankings are based on 13 indicators similar to the international institutional ranking and are grouped into five areas: teaching (educational environment), research (volume, income, reputation), citation (impact of research), international interaction (employees, students and research), and income from production (knowledge transfer).