The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 rank of countries is an overall result of the set of 12 pillars of indicators. The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 is a statistical product of the World Economic Forum. In 2018 Azerbaijan ranked 69th out of 140th countries. However, in 2019, Azerbaijan considerably increased to 58th out of 141th ahead of countries such as Greece, South Africa, Turkey, Croatia, India, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Argentina, Ukraine, Algeria, Iran, etc. Particular attention should be paid to the indicators such as institutions, skills (education), infrastructure, where Azerbaijan ranking jumped to 49th from 58th; to 48th from 54th; to 38th from 48th, respectively. In order to see the whole report and download pdf please visit the website below: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf

On 17 October, Minister of Energy Parviz Shahbazov met with Mongolian students Munksaikhan Munkbayar and Batsaikhan Munkhnaran, who studies at the ASOIU in the frame of scholarship program for citizens of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member countries. After welcoming the guests and expressing his pleasure of seeing them in Baku, Minister Parviz Shahbazov talked about relations between Mongolia-Azerbaijan on the energy field and about high-level meetings of officials, and projects that are planned and on the implementation stage. The students in their turns expressed their pleasant to be in Azerbaijan and Baku and shared opinions about education on a bachelor's degree in Oil and Gas Production Faculty at the ASOIU. Minister called the Mongolian students "ambassadors" and emphasize he believe that they will have a considerable contribution to political, economic, and cultural dimensions of bilateral relations. In the frame of scholarship program for citizens of the OIC and the NAM member countries, along with Mongolian students in ASOIU, there are students from Ecuador, Pakistan, Yemen, Kenya, and Mozambique. © 2019 ASOIU.  

  Baku State University is the only high educational institution of the Republic of Azerbaijan that has taken a place in the QS World University Rankings since 2012. Currently, BSU ranks 801st place among 1000 of the world’s top universities. Meanwhile Baku State University holds 142nd position in the QS EECA University Rankings 2019 among 300th top universities from emerging European and central Asian study destinations.

UNEC has been the leader in Azerbaijan in the ranking announced by UniRank ranking agency in August. Also UNEC has ranked 192nd in the ranking of “Top 200 Universities of Asia” made by the ranking agency. UNEC which   ranked 788 th   in the world ranking of UniRank rating agency, has passed ahead of   Ataturk University of Turkey, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology of China and   Chung-Ang University of Korea and many Asian and European universities. About uniRank: Ranking is made on the algorithm based on 5 independent web measurements obtained from 4 web sources. Moz Domain Authority, Alexa Global Rank, SimilarWeb Global Rank, Majestic Referring Domain, Majestic Trust Flow are taken as the components of uniRank. © 2019 UNEC Facebook page.