Presentation will be based on outcomes from the International Conference «Universities and International Rankings: Strategy Building» organized by Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (TIIAME) on 14-15 January 2019. Current status of world universities rankings and positioning of higher education institutes of Uzbekistan in global arena have been studied by comparing with Russian and Kazakh universities. Some information from QS world universities ranking database, Scopus database and Webometrics will be shared. Main issues, challenges, suggestions for improvement, strategy building for sustainability to be discussed.