TEHRAN –A total of 36 Iranian universities are featured on the GreenMetric World University Ranking 2023 results released in Dubai on December 5.

Around 1,183 institutions from all over the world have been evaluated by the UI Green Metric World Ranking 2023, IRNA reported.

The University of Kashan with a total score of 8,200 ranked first in Iran and 126 worldwide.

Alzahra University, ranked 164, and the University of Zanjan, ranked 172, are placed second and third in the country, respectively.

Wageningen University and Research of the Netherlands topped the list followed by Nottingham Trent University and Umwelt-campus Birkenfeld (Trier University of Applied Sciences) in second and third place respectively.

GreenMetric has been launched to provide a comprehensive view of the status and policies of the environment and sustainable development of the world's higher education institutions.

It is unique in informing university managers and policymakers about environmental challenges and energy consumption.

GreenMetric ranking is based on six criteria as follows. Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate change, Waste management, Water, Transportation, and Education and Research are the criteria used in this rating system to measure institutions.

Numeric data from universities are collected, and processed data provides a single score that reflects the efforts being made by the institution to implement environmentally friendly and sustainable programs. Universities are ranked according to this score.

GreenMetric Ranking

UI GreenMetric World University Ranking was established by Universitas Indonesia in 2010 to promote awareness of sustainability in higher education institutions.

This initiative aims to provide the result of an online survey regarding the current condition and policies related to Green Campus and Sustainability in Universities all over the world.

 It is expected that by drawing the attention of university leaders and stakeholders, more attention will be given to combating global climate change, energy and water conservation, waste recycling, and green transportation.

Such activities will require a change of behavior and providing more attention to the sustainability of the environment, as well as economic and social problems related to sustainability.

Recent rankings

According to the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking (WUR) 2024 by subject, eight Iranian universities were among the top institutions in the world in the field of law.

The law subject table used the same trusted and rigorous performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, but the methodology had been recalibrated to suit the discipline.

This year’s table included 329 universities, up from 290 last year.

A total of 36 Iranian universities were ranked by THE Ranking 2024 by subject Law.

The University of Tehran ranked first among Iranian universities, ranking 401-500 in the world, ISNA reported.

The University of Tabriz ranked 501-600; Imam Khomeini International University and Kashan University ranked 601-800.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR) 2024 placed 73 Iranian universities among the top universities in the world in 10 out of 11 subject areas.

These ten subject rankings included arts and humanities; business and economics; clinical and health; computer science; education; engineering; life sciences; physical sciences; psychology; and social sciences. The eleventh subject was Law.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR) 2024 included 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions.

Based on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings for Sustainability 2024, eleven Iranian institutions were among the top sustainable institutions in the world.

QS, a global higher education analyst, recently published the second edition of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2024.

Shiraz University ranked 731-740, and the University of Tehran ranked 841-860.

QS Asia University Rankings (QS) included 31 Iranian universities in the list of top universities in 2024, compared with 16 and 13 universities in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Sharif University of Technology ranked first among Iranian universities, followed by Amirkabir University of Technology, and Iran University of Science and Technology, Mehr reported

The Performance Rankings of Scientific Papers for World Universities, released by National Taiwan University (NTU), listed 18 Iranian universities among the top 500 institutions of the world in 2023.

Tehran University of Medical Sciences won the best rank among Iranian universities. It ranked 16 in pharmacology and toxicology, Mehr reported.

The second edition of the Webometrics ranking 2023 of the World Universities ranked 440 Iranian institutions among 30,000 top universities worldwide.

The first edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2023, in June, ranked 457 Iranian institutions among around 32,000 top universities worldwide.

The Academic Ranking of the World Universities (ARWU), also known as Shanghai Ranking, has placed ten universities from Iran among the top 1000 universities in the world in the Shanghai Ranking 2023, according to the head of the Islamic World Science Citation (ISC) Database

In the 2023 edition of the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings which includes 605 universities, Iran became the third most represented nation with 39 institutions.

The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings (2024) has placed seven Iranian universities among the world’s top institutes.

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