Improving the legal regulation of the Russian higher education system vs international rating systems

The task of creating by 2030 at least 100 advanced modern universities - centers of scientific, technological and socio-economic development of the country, in order to achieve the global competitiveness of the Russian higher education system and practical failure of the 5-100 Program reinforce the need for a reasonable legislative consolidation of criteria indicators for achieving such an ambitious goal. Purpose: to analyze the criteria of the main international rating systems, regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and other legal documents in the field of higher education to identify groups of criteria for achieving global competitiveness by Russian universities. Methods: the author uses empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic. Such special scientific methods as comparative-legal and legal-dogmatic are used. Results: the study makes it possible, based on a comparative legal analysis of the main international rating systems, legal documents, Russian legislation and scientific literature, to conclude that it is necessary to introduce criteria provisions into the legislation of the Russian Federation that take into account not only international criteria aimed at the Anglo-American education system, but, above all, the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation.