Iranian universities among the top 1500 universities in THE

14 November 2020 | 13:01 Code : 1454 News Important News
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Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Times Higher Education (THE) magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) to publish the joint THE-QS World University Rankings from 2004 to 2009 before it turned to Thomson Reuters for a new ranking system from 2010–2013. The magazine signed a new deal with Elsevier in 2014 who now provide them with the data used to compile the rankings.

The publication now comprises the world's overall, subject, and reputation rankings, alongside three regional league tables, Asia, Latin America, and BRICS & Emerging Economies which are generated by different weightings.

THE Rankings is often considered as one of the most widely observed university rankings together with Academic Ranking of World Universities and QS World University Rankings. It is praised for having a new, improved ranking methodology since 2010; however, undermining of non-science and non-English instructing institutions and relying on subjective reputation survey are among the criticism and concerns.

In THE, and from 2012 to 2014, there was only one Iranian university which was present in the list. In 2015, Sharif University of Technology and Isfahan University of Technology were present in this ranking and in 2016, the number of universities reached 8. In 2017, it has increased to 13 universities, where in 2018 to 18 universities, and in 2019 and 2020 to 29 and 40 universities, respectively.

In 2021, the presence of 47 universities from Iran in a total of 1527 top universities in the world from 93 countries is really striking, and this promises to see more and more capable Iranian universities in prestigious international rankings.

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