June 28, 2019
A total of 29 universities in Iran have made it onto the list of the 1,250 best universities in the world that is compiled annually by The Times of London.
The newspaper’s educational supplement has been producing these rankings since 2004 and it is generally recognized as the leading such global listing.
Of the top 25 universities on the ranking, 18 are American, three are British and one each is from Switzerland, Canada, China and Singapore. The top six, in order, are Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, MIT, the California Institute of Technology and Harvard.
The tabulators use 13 performance indicators to judge how good each university is in terms of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Here are the 29 Iranian universities ranked by The Times of London and their numerical categories. Within each numerical block, the universities are listed alphabetically
351-400
Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
401-500
none
501-600
Amirkabir University of Technology
University of Kashan
601-800
Iran University of Science & Technology
Isfahan University of Technology
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Sharif University of Technology
Shiraz University of Technology
University of Tabriz
University of Tehran
Tehran Univ of Medical Sciences
801-1000
Azarbaijan Shahid Madani Univ
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
University of Guilan
Iran Univ. of Medical Sciences
University of Isfahan
K.N. Toosi University of Tech.
University of Mazandaran
Shahid Beheshti University
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Shiraz University
1000-1250
Alzahra University
University of Birjand
Kharazmi University
Shahid Bahonar Univ. of Kerman
Shahrood University of Tech.
Urmia University
Yazd University
University of Zanjan
