THE (Times Higher Education) World University Rankings is published by the British magazine Times Higher Education using a methodology developed by Times Reuters. The survey uses 13 performance indicators in 5 areas for analyzing as bellow:

• Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)

• Research: volume, income and reputation (worth 30 percent)

• Citations: research influence (worth 30 percent)

• Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 percent)

• International outlook: staff, students and research (worth 7.5 percent).

In this ranking, 100 eminent Asian universities were listed in THE world University Rankings’ website. According to the announcement of this ranking system, Sharif University of Technology ranked 42nd, Tehran University of Medical Sciences ranked 62nd, and Isfahan University of Technology ranked 95th.