Date: 10/11/2009
TUMSPR News: The Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds released the new ranking list for top universities at one minute past morning October 8, 2009.
At last the long-time wish came to an end and academicians, parents and businesses witnessed the new ranking of universities. The Time Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released the new rankings for top universities one minute past October 8, 2009. The Asian and English universities ranked better than they had done in the last year's evaluation and England took the better parts of the first ten top universities.
THE-QS usually release the top 200 rankings first and inclusion among them entails hard academic work and good university logistics. The criteria satisfied for the rankings include:
Peer Review Score (40%)
Recruiter Review (10%)
International Faculty Score (5%)
International Students Score (5%)
Faculty/Student Score (20%)
Citations/Faculty Score (20%).
Although there are different ranking institutions with different ranking criteria but that of the THE-QS is counted as a prestigious one, although criticism have lingered about regarding the high emphasis THE-QS put on “peer review”. Nonetheless, it seems when the same measuring tool is used for all it will affect all parties in similar fashions too.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) and University of Tehran (UT) which together form the oldest and largest university in Iran ranked 368. Last year both had ranked somewhere between 400 – 500. This union, starting from 2008, has been a prosperous one and the hard work put to visualize the two lead to the present achievement, although expectations were and are higher. For example, the heads of TUMS research centers and the top scientist of the university participating in a session held to commemorate its three top scientist included among the one percent bulk of top scientist of the world, ambitiously deliberated on the need for starting the second scientific growth of the university to find a place among the first 200 universities just a day earlier the rankings was released.
To access the new rankings list, please, click here.
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/results
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=13867
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