The charter shows the top 8 BRICS University on the University Rankings: BRICS 2015 released by British company Quacquareli Symongs (QS) on July 8, 2015. [Photo: topuniversities.com]

China has dominated a ranking of the leading BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) universities, with 7 mainland universities ranking the top 10, chinanews.com cited the university ranking report released by British company Quacquareli Symongs (QS) on Wednesday.

Tsinghua University, Peking University and Fudan University rank as the top three universities among BRICS, followed by Romonosov Moscow State University, India Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University, University of S?o Paulo and Beijing Normal University.

According to QS, the rank is based on criterions including teaching quality assessments; graduate employment rates and graduates' competitiveness in job markets; the productivity of researchers and the frequency that their papers are citied; faculty ratio with higher educational degree; the proportion of international students and staff.

Specifically, Tsinghua ranks as the top among BRICS universities because it has the largest proportion of researchers with doctoral degrees and the highest productivity in research papers.

The ranking report is based on 55900 academic-related surveys and 8,200 employer-focused surveys.

411 universities of BRICS have participated in the evaluation and 404 universities have their names on the ranking list.

The ranking report has been published amid the 7th BRICS summit held at the southwestern Russian City of Ufa this Wednesday.

The file photo shows Tsinghua University. It ranks as the top university among all 404 BRICS universities on the University Rankings: BRICS 2015 released by British company Quacquareli Symongs (QS) on July 8, 2015. [File Photo: chinanews.com]