The 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) report has been released in August 17, by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution. More than 1000 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published on the web.
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2013
The United States with 17 universities in the top 20 and 149 in the top 500 still stands in the first place in ARWU.
University of Tehran is the only iranian institution in top 500 global ranking of ARWU. Sharif University of Technology included among the top 101-150 world universities in ARWU field ranking.
Academic Ranking of World Universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences - 2013
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