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

TEHRAN, Oct.8 (MNA) – Sharif University of Technology has been placed in the top 350 of the world’s best universities, according to the rankings recently published by the magazine Times Higher Education (THE).

It is the first time that an Iranian university has been named in the table of the top 350 universities.

According to BBC, the world rankings are produced each year by THE with Thomson Reuters.

THE rankings of the top universities across the globe employ 13 separate performance indicators designed to capture the full range of university activities, including teaching, research, citations, industry income, and international outlook.

The California Institute for Technology was named the best university in the world. Harvard is at number two, the first time it has failed to take the top spot in the list’s eight-year history, according to the Guardian.

THE rankings place 75 U.S. universities in the top 200.

The highest-ranking Asian university is the University of Tokyo, in 30th place.

High rankings help countries attract fee-paying overseas students and lucrative research contracts.

The top twenty universities in the rankings are listed below:

- California Institute of Technology
- Harvard
- Stanford
- Oxford
- Princeton
- Cambridge
- MIT
- Imperial College
- Chicago
- California, Berkeley
- Yale
- Columbia
- California, Los Angeles
- Johns Hopkins
- ETH Zurich
- Pennsylvania
- UCL
- Michigan
- Toronto
- Cornell