Iranian universities advance in QS Asia Rankings

TEHRAN - QS Asia University Rankings (QS) has included 31 Iranian universities in the list of top universities in 2024, compared with 16 and 13 universities in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Sharif University of Technology ranked first among Iranian universities, followed by Amirkabir University of Technology, and Iran University of Science and Technology, Mehr reported.

A total of 856 universities from Asia are included in this year's QS Asia University Rankings.

Peking University has been ranked as the best university in the region.

This year's QS Asia University Rankings can also be viewed in sub-regions: Central Asia (including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) Eastern Asia (includes mainland China, Japan, and South Korea) South-Eastern Asia (including, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand) Southern Asia (including India and Pakistan).

University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), and National University of Singapore (Singapore) ranked second and third following Peking University.

Sharif University of Technology ranked 85, the University of Tehran ranked 88, Amirkabir University of Technology ranked 121, Iran University of Science and Technology ranked 166, and Shiraz University ranked 184.

QS Rankings methodology

QS ranking is carried out by the "Quacquarelli Symonds" institute in England. It has been independently evaluating the world's universities since 2010. In the recent QS ranking methodology, three indicators including sustainability, employment outcome, and international research network have been used for the first time.

The information on scientific publications of universities in this ranking is calculated from the Scopus citation database in a 5-year period and citations in a 6-year period.

Recent rankings

The Performance Rankings of Scientific Papers for World Universities, released by National Taiwan University (NTU), listed 18 Iranian universities among the top 500 institutions of the world in 2023.

Tehran University of Medical Sciences won the best rank among Iranian universities. It ranked 16 in pharmacology and toxicology, Mehr reported.

Also, the University of Tehran ranked 25 in Energy Science and Engineering, 27 in Mechanical Engineering, and 31 in Chemical Engineering.

Iran ranked second with 80 universities included in D-8 group universities in 2022.

Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia have the largest number of universities in the ranking.

The most important criteria to evaluate the performance of D-8 group universities include research, innovation, education, and international activities.”

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the University of Tehran, and Tarbiat Modares University ranked 4th, 5th, and 13th, respectively.

The performance of 20 out of the 80 Iranian universities has been analyzed as the top universities

Tehran University of Medical Sciences has won the first rank among the Iranian universities.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR) 2024 placed 73 Iranian universities among the top universities in the world in 10 out of 11 subject areas.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR) 2024 included 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions.

In this ranking by subject, 73 Iranian universities were included, and 44 out of 185 majors were ranked below 500, ISNA reported.

The second edition of the Webometrics ranking 2023 of the World Universities ranked 440 Iranian institutions among 30,000 top 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.

Courtesy of Tehran Times