Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University was included in the world institutional university ranking RUR — Round University Ranking (Russia), published by RUR Rankings Agency together with Clarivate.

PGUPS is the only transport university included in this ranking in 2021, taking the 809^th position in the world university ranking and 82nd among the Russian universities.

Round University Ranking (RUR) is a world university ranking, which measures performance of leading world universities by 20 indicators across 4 key missions: teaching, research, international diversity and financial sustainability.