188 higher education projects to be inaugurated
May 5, 2021 - 16:46
TEHRAN – Tomorrow,[May 6] President Hassan Rouhani will officially inaugurate some 188 educational, research, and welfare projects in universities across the country via video conferencing, IRNA reported.
The projects include 34 educational places, 23 research centers, 19 training centers, 14 technical and vocational universities, 24 green management plans, 9 welfare centers and etc., costing a total of 1,264 billion rials (about $300 million) plus $2.5 million.
With the opening of these projects, job opportunities will be opened up for about 1,000 people.
In November 2020, Rouhani inaugurated some 1,550 educational, training, and welfare projects throughout the country.
The projects included 1,422 educational places with 8,051 classrooms, 124 training centers, and 4 welfare centers, measuring a total of 1.1 million square meters.
Iranian universities performance
Times Higher Education has published its annual ranking of the world’s top universities for 2021, listing 47 Iranian universities, which shows an increase of 7 universities compared to the last year.
With 47 Iranian universities ranked among 1,527 top universities of 93 countries in the world in 2021 rankings, Iran achieved a great improvement in the academic field.
Some 21 Islamic countries were also listed in the ranking, however, Iran holds the highest share with 47 universities.
With a scientific growth rate of 10.4 percent in 2019, Iran ranked second among the top 25 countries in the world, next to China with a growth rate of 12.9 percent, according to the Web of Science website.
According to statistics released by the International Web of Science Database, Iran's citation rank has always been on the rise over the last eight years, from 24 in 2012 to 16 in 2019.
Iran ranks first in terms of the number of universities in the region and among Islamic countries, according to Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2020.
Two Iranian universities have been ranked among the top 100 universities in Asia, according to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities for July 2020.
Moreover, 7 Iranian universities have been listed among the best 1000 worldwide; including, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Sharif University of Technology, Tarbiat Modares University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran University of Science and Technology.
In June 2020, THE Asia University Rankings 2020 ranked five Iranian universities among the top 100 universities worldwide.
The Center for Science and Technology Studies Leiden Ranking has placed 36 Iranian universities in the list of over 1,000 major universities worldwide in 2020 compared with 26 universities in 2019.
Also, five Iranian universities have been placed among the world’s top 1,000 universities announced by the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2021.
Courtesy of Tehran Times
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