TEHRAN –The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2026 has positioned 90 Iranian universities among the many prime Asian establishments, up from 85 universities in 2025.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 choose analysis-intensive universities throughout all their core missions: instructing, analysis, data switch, and worldwide outlook.
Sharif University of Technology is positioned first in the nation, with a worldwide rating of 76, Borna information company reported.
Amirkabir university of Technology (79), Iran University of Science and Technology (87) are ranked second and third.
Tehran University of Medical Science (111), University of Tehran (120), Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (131), Isfahan University of Technology (137), Tarbiat Modares University (162), Shiraz University of Technology (166), and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (154) are positioned fourth to tenth in the nation.
The efficiency indicators are grouped into 5 areas: Teaching (the training setting) 24.5 %, Research Environment (quantity, earnings and fame) 28 %, Research Quality (quotation affect, analysis energy, excellence and affect) 30 %, International Outlook (employees, college students and analysis) 7.5 %, and Industry (earnings and patents) 10 %.
The 2026 rating contains 929 universities from 36 territories. China leads the rankings. India has essentially the most represented establishments (128). Malaysia joins the highest 40 for the primary time and doubles its prime 100 locations, and Yemen has a university ranked for the primary time.
Recent rankings
THE World University Rankings (WUR) 2026 positioned 101 Iranian universities among the many prime universities in the world in 11 topic areas, in comparison with 81 universities in 10 topic areas in 2025.
These ten topic rankings embrace arts and humanities; enterprise and economics; medical and well being; pc science; training; engineering; life sciences; bodily sciences; psychology; social sciences, and Law.
To create the THE WUR 2026 checklist, THE’s knowledge staff drew on a complete and rising database containing a whole bunch of 1000’s of information factors on greater than 3,100 world analysis universities, and employed a worldwide Academic Reputation Survey of greater than 108,000 main students, who offered us with their skilled views on the world’s main universities.
In addition, it additionally analysed 174.9 million citations to 18.7 million tutorial publications (from Elsevier’s Scopus database) printed over a 5-12 months interval between 2020 and 2024.
Amirkabir University of Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, and Sharif University of Technology, rating 351–400 globally, have been positioned first in the nation.
Iran University of Science and Technology, and University of Tehran have been positioned second, with a worldwide rating of 401–500.
Shiraz University of Technology, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences ranked 501–600 globally; they ranked third nationwide.
The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings positioned 48 Iranian universities in the checklist of prime universities in 2026, in comparison with 32 universities in 2025.
Published yearly since 2009, the QS Asia University Rankings highlights the highest universities in Asia every year.
University of Tehran (with a worldwide rating of 93) was positioned first amongst Iranian universities, adopted by Sharif University of Technology (rating 142 globally) and Amirkabir University of Technology (rating 169 globally), ISNA reported.
Iran University of Science and Technology (172), Isfahan University of Technology and University of Tabriz (212), Shahid Beheshti University (214), Shiraz University (241), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (261), Okay.N. Toosi University of Technology (287), University of Isfahan (293) have been ranked fourth to tenth.
The 11 indicators used to compile the QS Asia University Rankings are as follows: Academic fame (30 %), Employer fame (20 %), Faculty/pupil ratio (10 %), International analysis community (10 %), Citations per paper (10 %) and papers per school (5 %), Staff with a PhD (5 %), Proportion of worldwide school (2.5 %) and proportion of worldwide college students (2.5 %), Proportion of inbound alternate college students (2.5 %) and proportion of outbound alternate college students (2.5 %).
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