Tehran University of Medical Sciences, University of Tehran among Top 500 World Universities
“In the Shanghai 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), 1,000 top universities in the world have been ranked, and like last year, Harvard and Stanford Universities and MIT in the US have taken the first to third places, respectively,” said Mohammad Mehdi Alavian Mehr, the head of the Islamic World Science and Technology Citation and Monitoring Institute (ISC).
He added that in this ranking, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and University of Tehran have been able to be placed among the top 500 universities in the world and have taken the first and second places among the Iranian universities, with a ranking in the range of 401-500.
“Also, Tarbiat Modares University is considered as the third Iranian university in this ranking,” Alavian Mehr said.
“The Shanghai Ranking 2025 features 51 universities from 10 Islamic countries. Saudi Arabia and Turkey have the highest number of universities in the ranking with 13 and 11 universities respectively, and Iran and Egypt have the highest number of universities with 6 universities each,” he noted.
Relevant reports said in July 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.
This global ranking is published annually by the London-based Quikrley Symonds (QS) Institute according to indicators like academic reputation, employment reputation, citations per capita, “h” index, and international research network.
In the QS 2026 ranking, the performance of 1,501 universities from around the world, including 11 Iranian universities, was assessed.
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