ISC IWUR 2023 Released
The presence of 80 universities from I.R. of Iran among 499 universities of Islamic countries
ISC’s Islamic World Countries ranking 2023 has been released by Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC), and among the universities of 57 Islamic countries, a total of 499 universities from 33 Islamic countries are included in this ranking.
In ISC IWUR 2023, universities that have recorded at least 500 documents from 2019 to 2021 in Web of Science (WoS) database have been put in the list.
Due to the fact that many Islamic countries’ universities are not included in ISC WUR, ISC IWUR can be the basis for specifying the position of each university among Islamic countries by showing the weaknesses and strengths of the universities based on each criterion. The setting and policy making of universities should be placed in this ranking.
The ranking of universities in IWUR has been done by ISC since 2018, which can be seen in chart 1 of the number of universities in this ranking.
The top 10 universities in this ranking are from the countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Malaysia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia is among the top 10 universities ISC IWUR 2023 with 4 universities and the rest of the countries with one university each.
Table 1: The top universities of the ISC ranking of universities in the Islamic world
Rank |
University |
Country |
1 |
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology |
Saudi Arabia |
2 |
King Saud University |
Saudi Arabia |
3 |
King Abdulaziz University |
Saudi Arabia |
4 |
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals |
Saudi Arabia |
5 |
Qatar University |
Qatar |
6 |
Universiti Malaya |
Malaysia |
7 |
COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) |
Pakistan |
8 |
American University of Beirut |
Lebanon |
9 |
University of Tehran |
Iran |
10 |
Khalifa University of Science & Technology |
United Arab Emirates |
Islamic countries’ universities in ISC IWUR 2023
Among the 57 Islamic countries’ universities, a total of 499 universities from 33 Islamic countries had the conditions to stand in this ISC IWUR 2023.
The largest number of universities belong to Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, which have 122, 80 and 47 universities in this ranking, respectively.
The status of other Islamic countries in terms of the number of universities in the ranking is shown in Chart 2.
Chart 2: The number of universities in Islamic countries in the ISC IWUR 2023
Row |
University |
Rank |
Country |
1 |
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology |
1 |
Saudi Arabia |
2 |
Qatar University |
5 |
Qatar |
3 |
Universiti Malaya |
6 |
Malaysia |
4 |
COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) |
7 |
Pakistan |
5 |
American University of Beirut |
8 |
Lebanon |
6 |
University of Tehran |
9 |
Iran |
7 |
Khalifa University of Science & Technology |
10 |
United Arab Emirates |
8 |
Middle East Technical University |
11 |
Turkiye |
9 |
Cairo University |
12 |
Egypt |
10 |
Sultan Qaboos University |
27 |
Oman |
11 |
Kuwait University |
36 |
Kuwait |
12 |
Universite de Tunis-El-Manar |
37 |
Tunisia |
13 |
Jordan University of Science & Technology |
43 |
Jordan |
14 |
University of Ibadan |
57 |
Nigeria |
15 |
Nazarbayev University |
63 |
Kazakhstan |
16 |
Makerere University |
64 |
Uganda |
17 |
University of Indonesia |
65 |
Indonesia |
18 |
Mohammed V University in Rabat |
69 |
Morocco |
19 |
University Brunei Darussalam |
83 |
Brunei |
20 |
University of Dhaka |
101-125 |
Bangladesh |
21 |
University of Yaounde I |
Cameroon |
|
22 |
University of Baghdad |
126-150 |
Iraq |
23 |
An Najah National University |
201-250 |
Palestine |
24 |
University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar |
Senegal |
|
25 |
Eduardo Mondlane University |
Mozambique |
|
26 |
University Science & Technology Houari Boumediene |
Algeria |
|
27 |
University of Abomey Calavi |
Benin |
|
28 |
Baku State University |
Azerbaijan |
|
29 |
University of Khartoum |
251-300 |
Sudan |
30 |
Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny |
301-350 |
Cote Ivoire |
31 |
University of Bahrain |
351-400 |
Bahrain |
32 |
Damascus University |
401-450 |
Syria |
33 |
Taiz University |
Yemen |
Universities of I.R. of Iran in ISC IWUR 2023
80 universities from the I.R. of Iran are included in this ranking. This is despite the fact that 74 universities from Iran were present in last year's ranking.
Chart 3 shows Iranian universities position in ISC IWUR 2023
Table 4: The top ranks of Iranian universities in each of the ISC IWUR 2023 Criteria
Rank in ISC IWUR |
Research |
4 |
University of Tehran |
8 |
Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
12 |
Tarbiat Modares University |
14 |
Sharif University of Technology |
16 |
Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences |
27 |
Isfahan University of Technology |
30 |
Iran University of Medical Sciences |
32 |
Tabriz University of Medical Science |
33 |
Amirkabir University of Technology |
34 |
University of Tabriz |
Rank in ISC IWUR |
Education |
8 |
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences (BMSU) |
12 |
Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
16 |
Mashhad University Medical Science |
21 |
Tarbiat Modares University |
22 |
Semnan University of Medical Sciences |
23 |
University of Tehran |
32 |
Amirkabir University of Technology |
40 |
Shahrood University of Technology |
44 |
Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University |
48 |
University of Mohaghegh Ardabili |
Rank in ISC IWUR |
International |
20 |
Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
28 |
University of Tehran |
36 |
Iran University of Medical Sciences |
42 |
Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences |
53 |
Amirkabir University of Technology |
56 |
Sharif University of Technology |
60 |
Mashhad University Medical Science |
65 |
Shiraz University of Medical Science |
66 |
Tarbiat Modares University |
73 |
Tabriz University of Medical Science |
Rank in ISC IWUR |
Innovation |
19 |
Amirkabir University of Technology |
21 |
Sharif University of Technology |
35 |
Tarbiat Modares University |
53 |
Ferdowsi University Mashhad |
54 |
University of Tehran |
58 |
K. N. Toosi University of Technology |
60 |
Isfahan University of Technology |
61 |
Semnan University |
63 |
Iran University of Medical Sciences |
72 |
Iran University Science & Technology |
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