Iran’s Sharif University placed among world’s 350 best universities

TEHRAN,Dec.16(MNA) – Iran’s Sharif University of Technology has been placed among the world’s 350 best universities in 2012, according to the rankings recently published by the Times Higher Education magazine. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013, powered by Thomson Reuters, are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry, and governments. The highest-ranking Asian university is the University of Tokyo, in 27th place. The top twenty universities in the rankings are listed below: 1) California Institute of Technology, United States 2) Stanford University, United States 3) University of Oxford, United Kingdom 4) Harvard University, United States 5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States 6) Princeton University, United States 7) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 8) Imperial College London, United Kingdom 9) University of California, Berkeley, United States 10) University of Chicago, United States 11) Yale University, United States 12) ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland 13) University of California, Los Angeles, United States 14) Columbia University, United States 15) University of Pennsylvania, United States 16) Johns Hopkins University, United States 17) University College London, United Kingdom 18) Cornell University, United States 19) Northwestern University, United States 20) University of Michigan, United States