Method of an estimation of quality of higher education

The article is devoted to the questions of quality of education in various high schools of the world can be estimated and accessible index, which considers two base values - the creative potential of the professors, and the quantity of students, counting on the one professor. We named the index in honour of M. Lomonosov - the Lomonosov index, L-index. For an estimation of quality of professor's work it suggested to consider their author's monographies, textbooks and methodical works (not references and publications in magazines). In technical colleges it makes sense to consider quantity of patents for inventions also. Possibility of such calculations has appeared with opening of electronic catalogues of the largest national libraries and patent bureaus.