TEHRAN – Forty-five universities of Iran have been listed among the top 1,000 green institutions worldwide, according to the University of Indonesia Green Metric overall ranking 2022.

The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking is an initiative of Universitas Indonesia which is being launched in 2010. Current criteria being used to rank universities were not giving credit to those that were making efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and thus help combat global climate change.

The universities are ranked based on setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste and water management, transportation, and education worldwide.So, the world’s green universities are ranked according to six deciding factors contributing to sustainability including setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste and water management, transportation, and education worldwide.

None of the Iranian universities are among the top 100 intuitions of the list, however, the University of Zanjan is ranked 107, and tops the Iranian universities. Kashan University of Medical Sciences with a rank of 156 and the University of Kashan ranking 163 are placed second and third among the national institutions.

According to the 2022 "Greenmetric" report, Wageningen University & Research is the greenest institution in the world with the highest score, followed by Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Groningen.

In 2021, a total of 42 universities from Iran have been listed among 1,000 green institutions worldwide.

In 2020, two universities of Zanjan and Kashan were listed among the top 100 green institutes, while, in 2021, only the University of Zanjan remained among the top 100.

Performance in 2022

According to the latest edition of the best global universities ranking released by U. S. News, 52 Iranian institutions were ranked among the best institutions worldwide.

Fifty-eight universities from Iran were listed among the top universities in Asia, according to the 2022 Asia University Rankings of the Times Higher Education.

The 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, based on universities’ contributions to delivering the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), listed 27 Iranian universities.

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2022 has ranked 694 Iranian institutions among 30,000 top universities across the world.

Also, 59 Iranian universities have been listed among the top 3,000 institutions in the world in terms of academic quality, according to the 2021-2022 report released by University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP).

The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 list has been released, which included three Iranian universities out of a total of 550 institutes worldwide that highlighted graduate employment processes.

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