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

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

This year’s table includes 329 universities, up from 290 last year.
A total of 36 Iranian universities have been ranked by THE Ranking 2024 by subject Law.

University of Tehran ranks first among Iranian universities, it ranks 401-500 in the world, ISNA reported.

University of Tabriz ranks 501-600; Imam Khomeini International University and Kashan University rank 601-800.

Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, University of Kurdistan, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, and Shiraz University rank 801-1000.

Harvard University climbs five places to lead the table this year, replacing Stanford University, which drops to second place.

73 Iranian universities in THE Ranking 2024 

In October, 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.

The Ranking was based on the new WUR 3.0 methodology, which included 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

In this ranking by subject, 73 Iranian universities were included, and 44 out of 185 majors were ranked below 500, ISNA reported.

“By the end of the seventh development program, the number of universities ranked below 500 in international ranking systems should reach 20,” ISNA quoted Ahmad Fazelzadeh, head of the Islamic World Science Citation (ISC) Database, as saying.

He added that the Times Higher Education World Ranking by subject is an important ranking that evaluates and assesses universities’ performance in different subject areas annually.

He added: The conditions for participation in the Times ranking by subject are an acceptable number of scientific publications and faculty members, which are different for each subject.

Other rankings

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, ISNA reported.

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

Tarbiat Modares University ranked 1051-1100. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad ranked 1101-1150. Amirkabir University of Technology, Iranian University of Science and Technology ranked 1151-1200; Shahid Beheshti University, Sharif University of Technology, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Islamic Azad University, and University of Tabriz ranked 1201.

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.

A total of 856 universities from Asia are included in this year's QS Asia University Rankings.

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.
Also, the University of Tehran ranked 25 in Energy Science and Engineering, 27 in Mechanical Engineering, and 31 in Chemical Engineering.

Iran ranked second with 80 universities included in D-8 group universities in 2022.

Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia have the largest number of universities in the ranking.

The most important criteria to evaluate the performance of D-8 group universities include research, innovation, education, and international activities.”

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the University of Tehran, and Tarbiat Modares University ranked 4th, 5th, and 13th, respectively.
The performance of 20 out of the 80 Iranian universities has been analyzed as the top universities.

Tehran University of Medical Sciences has won the first rank among the Iranian universities.

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 across the world.

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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Highlight: Eight Iranian universities are among top institutions by subject Law in the world.