Eighty-Four Iranian Universities among ISC World Ranking
05 December 2025 | 07:36
17:30 - October 17, 2025

Eighty-Four Iranian Universities among ISC World Ranking

TEHRAN (ANA)- Eighty-four Iranian universities are standing among the top universities in Islamic states, up from eighty in 2023, in the Islamic World University Rankings (IWUR).
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The latest report by the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) said that 552 universities from 35 Islamic countries are listed in the ranking, where Turkey, with 138 universities and Iran, with 84 universities, and Pakistan, with 50 universities, are placed first to third.

University of Tehran is placed among the top ten universities in Islamic nations, ranking sixth. The university ranks first in Iran.

Tehran University of Medical Sciences (11), Sharif University of Technology (17), Tarbiat Modares University (21), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (31), Amirkabir University of Technology (37), Isfahan University of Technology (40), Iran University of Medical Sciences (47), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (50), Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (53), and University of Tabriz (54) are placed second to ten in Iran.

Iran, with 75501 documents, ranks second among Islamic countries in 2024.

Iran also ranks 17 globally, dropping one position in the ranking compared to the past year. Turkey (with 82150 documents) and Saudi Arabia (with 72167 documents) rank first and third, respectively.

According to the report, in terms of citations (89,492), Iran ranks second and fifteenth in the region and the world, respectively. Over the past five years, the country’s global ranking has improved from 19 to 15.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey, with 121,838 and 81,106 citations, ranked first and third, respectively.

Relevant reports in July said that the University of Tehran ranked first nationally and 322nd in the world in the latest world university ranking released by the Quikrley Symonds (QS).

In the latest QS ranking, the University of Tehran ranked first in Iran by moving up 46 places and achieving 322nd place internationally.

In this list, Sharif University of Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran University of Science and Technology, and Isfahan University of Technology were ranked second to fifth, respectively.

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Azra Varasteh

 

 

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