TEHRAN- The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR) 2024 has placed 73 Iranian universities among the top universities in the world in 10 out of 11 subject areas.
These ten subject rankings include arts and humanities; business and economics; clinical and health; computer science; education; engineering; life sciences; physical sciences; psychology; and social sciences. The eleventh subject is Law.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR) 2024 include 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions
The Ranking is based on the new WUR 3.0 methodology, which includes 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.
This year’s ranking analyzed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally. Overall, 411,789 data points were collected from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data.
In this ranking by subject, 73 Iranian universities were included, and 44 out of 185 majors were ranked below 500, ISNA reported.
“By the end of the seventh development program, the number of universities ranked below 500 in international ranking systems should reach 20,” ISNA quoted Ahmad Fazelzadeh, head of the Islamic World Science Citation (ISC) Database, as saying.
He added that the Times Higher Education World Ranking by subject is an important ranking that evaluates and assesses universities’ performance in different subject areas annually.
He added: The conditions for participation in the Times ranking by subject are an acceptable number of scientific publications and faculty members, which are different for each subject.
Other rankings
The second edition of the Webometrics ranking 2023 of the World Universities ranked 440 Iranian institutions among 30,000 top universities worldwide.
Webometrics is an internationally recognized university ranking system that employs a combination of indicators to evaluate universities.
These indicators include Visibility (or Impact), which measures the influence of web content; Transparency (or Openness), which considers the researchers cited the most; and Excellence, determined by the most cited scientific publication.
The Webometrics ranking system is published by Cybermetrics Lab, a research group affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) based in Madrid, Spain. This ranking undergoes biannual updates in January and July each year, ensuring that the evaluations remain current and relevant for universities worldwide.
The first edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2023, in June, ranked 457 Iranian institutions among around 32,000 top universities across the world.
The Academic Ranking of the World Universities (ARWU), also known as Shanghai Ranking, has placed ten universities from Iran among the top 1000 universities in the world in the Shanghai Ranking 2023, according to the head of the Islamic World Science Citation (ISC) Database.
In the 2023 edition of the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings which includes 605 universities, Iran became the third most represented nation with 39 institutions
The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings (2024) has placed seven Iranian universities among the world’s top institutes.
The Leiden ranking system published the 2023 report, according to which 46 Iranian universities were among the 1,411 top universities in the world. Among Islamic countries, Iran ranked first, followed by Turkey and Egypt with 36 and 13 universities, respectively.
In the 2023 edition of the Times Higher Education’s Asian University Ranking System, 669 institutions from 31 Asian countries are included and 65 Iranian universities are among the top Asian institutions.
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