As an international scientific organization, ISC has ranked universities and research institutes in Iran by forming an internal working group.

ISC, as an avant-garde citation system in the Muslim world, published Islamic World University Rankings in 2013. Building on past experience, ISC’s Department of Universities Ranking published the new ISC World University Rankings in 2018.

In 2021, there were 42 Iranian universities on the ISC ranking by subject from 215 universities in Islamic countries.

The six subjects included natural sciences (biological sciences, chemical sciences, computer and information sciences, earth and related environmental sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, and other natural sciences (multidisciplinary sciences); engineering and technology ( chemical engineering,  civil engineering,  electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, environmental biotechnology,    environmental engineering, industrial biotechnology, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, medical engineering, nano-technology, and other engineering and technologies (engineering, multidisciplinary; engineering, industrial; engineering, manufacturing; food science and technology; instrumentation and instrumentation; microscopy; imaging science and photographic technology; spectroscopy); medical and health sciences   (basic medicine, clinical medicine, health sciences, medical biotechnology, and other medical science; agricultural and veterinary sciences (agricultural biotechnology,  agriculture, forestry, fisheries animal and dairy science, veterinary science, and other agricultural science (agricultural engineering; agricultural economics and policy; food science and technology); humanities and the arts (art, history and archaeology, languages and literature, philosophy, ethics and religion, and other humanities (humanities, multidisciplinary); social sciences (economics and business,  education,      law, media and communication, political science, psychology and cognitive sciences, social and economic geography, sociology, and other social sciences (hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism; asian studies; cultural studies; social sciences, interdisciplinary).

The number of top Iranian universities and research institutes in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database has increased from 112 last year (March 2022-March 2023) to 115 this year, the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) has reported.

The number of top Iranian universities and research institutes in this database has increased from 112 last year to 115 this year.

Iran’s top universities and research institutes are present in 19 subject areas, and the largest number is in the engineering subject area with 59 universities and research institutes.

The number of institutions in the fields of clinical medicine was 57, chemistry 50, material sciences 25, agricultural sciences 23, pharmacology and toxicology 19, plant and animal sciences 16, environment/ecology 15, social sciences, biology and biochemistry, and computer sciences 13 each.

Meanwhile, the number of institutions in the fields of neuroscience and behavior was 7, geology 6, physics and immunology 5 each, molecular biology and genetics 4, mathematics and microbiology 2 each, and psychiatry/psychology 1.

Reviewing the status of universities worldwide shows that the number of Iranian universities has increased in nearly all subject rankings.

At the beginning of its formation, rating systems provided a comprehensive view of institutions and evaluated them from all aspects and as a whole. But in the past few years, many of these systems evaluate and rank institutions in various scientific fields.

This new ranking method has emerged to meet the needs of users who seek to know the position of an institution in a special field.

Some of these systems evaluate broad scientific fields such as humanities and social sciences, technical and engineering, and medicine, and others measure special fields such as chemistry, mathematics, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and nursing in institutions.

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023 has placed 65 Iranian universities among the top Asian institutions.

The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2023 use the same 13 performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but they are recalibrated to reflect the attributes of Asia’s institutions.

The universities are judged across all their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook – to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.

The Sharif University of Technology is ranked first in the country and 64th in Asia. The position of two Iranian institutions is also mentioned as a reporter.

In the 2023 edition of the Times Higher Education’s Asian University Ranking System, the names of 928 institutions from 36 Asian countries are included in the final list. In the previous edition of this ranking system, 58 universities from Iran were among the top institutions in Asia, IRNA reported.

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These institutions are from the U.S. and more than 90 other countries that have been ranked based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations.

The overall Best Global Universities ranking encompasses 2,000 top institutions, up from 1,750 last year, spread across 95 countries, up from 90 last year.

Universities of “Tehran”, “Azad Islami”, “Medical Sciences and Health Services of Tehran”, “Noshirvani Babol Industrial University”, and “Sharif University of Technology” are the top five Iranian institutions in this ranking.

In the previous edition of this ranking system, 44 institutions from Iran were among the top institutions in the world, which have reached 52 this year.

Only institutions evaluated in this system that have at least 1,250 articles in the last five years (from 2016 to 2020) in the “Web of science”.

The University of Tehran and Azad Islamic University are among the 500 top intuitions in the world, according to this ranking.

The U.S. News uses 13 key indicators (global research reputation, regional research reputation, number of publications, books, conferences, normalized citation impact, number of all citations, number of publications among 10 percent most cited, the ratio of publications among 10 percent of high-quality publications, number of international collaborations [relative to the country], the number of global collaborations, the number of highly cited articles among one percent of high-quality publications, and the proportion of highly cited articles among one percent of high-quality publications, to evaluate institutions.

“Harvard University” is the leader in the world with the highest score, followed by “The Massachusetts Institute of Technology”, “Stanford University”, “The University of California-Berkeley”, and “The University of Oxford”.

Academic quality

Fifty-eight universities from Iran were listed among the top universities in Asia, according to the 2022 Asia University Rankings of the Times Higher Education.

The 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, based on universities’ contributions to delivering the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), listed 27 Iranian universities.

In the previous edition of the ranking, 44 institutions from Iran were among the top institutions in the world.

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2022 has ranked 694 Iranian institutions among 30,000 top universities across the world.

Also, 59 Iranian universities have been listed among the top 3,000 institutions in the world in terms of academic quality, according to the 2021-2022 report released by University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP).

The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 list has been released, which included three Iranian universities out of a total of 550 institutes worldwide that highlighted graduate employment processes.

Meanwhile, 41 Iranian universities in engineering sciences and 12 universities in computer sciences have made a place among the top 1,188 universities in the world with the announcement of Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 by subject.

It also has introduced 59 Iranian universities among the top institutions in World University Rankings 2022.

The THE Education Young University Rankings 2021 listed 26 Iranian institutions among the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger.

Moreover, 34 Iranian universities and institutions were listed among the top 1,000 in the world, according to Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2021.

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At least 8 university students are reported to have been killed and many more injured including the bus driver, who suffered a heart attack behind the wheel, causing the bus to go out of control and roll over in the north of Tehran.

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 Iran’s Yasuj University of Medical Sciences and Brazil’s University of Sao Paulo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand academic ties, said Owrang Ilami, the president of the Iranian university, IRNA reported on Monday.

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The honoring ceremony will take place at the university on Friday, the institute announced in a press release on Tuesday.

A number of Iranian and Dutch Iranologists and Persian literati are scheduled to deliver several lectures during the ceremony.

An assistant professor of Persian studies at Leiden University, the 86-year-old De Bruijn is the author of “Persian Sufi Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Persian Poems”.

Sanai was one of the earlier Sufi poets. Rumi acknowledged Sanai and Attar as his two primary inspirations, saying, “Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and Attar.”

Sanai is best known for his long didactic poem that is usually known by its Arabic title, Hadiqat al-Haqiqa wa-Shari’at al-Tariqa (The Garden of Truth and the Law of the Right Path), which contains mystical teachings intermingled with proverbs, fables and anecdotes.

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