OREANDA-NEWS. 'Expert RA' rating agency with support of Oleg Deripaska's Volnoye Delo Fund first drafted the rating of universities in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The list included 153 universities representing Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. The rating is based on both statistics and surveys of over 5,500 respondents - professors, employers, academicians, students and graduates. All of the universities included into the rating are classified into five rating categories from A to E, where A means extremely high training of graduates, В, very high, and C, D and E ratings, high, acceptable and sufficient training of graduates, respectively.