The results of Round University Ranking 2023 is revealed and Kurdistan University of Medical
Sciences is ranked 545th globally and 8th in the country. It is important to mention that the
University is among the golden league universities and ranked 198th globally and 5th for Education.
More than 1200 universities from 89 countries were measured according to 20 performance
indicators in four key areas of university activities: teaching (40%), research (40%), international
diversity (10%), and financial sustainability (10%). There are 24 Iranian universities in the recent
ranking list.
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences is the second among the participating Iranian medical
universities. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran University, and Sharif University of
Technology are ranked the top three Iranian universities. Harvard University, California Institute
of Technology, and Stanford University are the top three universities in the world university
ranking 2023.
RUR rankings cover the period from 2010 to the present, and the raw data is provided through the
following methods. Three types of raw data are used in RUR:
 Statistical data
In GIPP (Global Institutional Profile Project) universities provide information about 20 raw
indicators.
 Bibliometric data
For scientometrics information RUR rankings use the raw data extracted from Web of Science
Core Collection.
 Reputation data
A special Academic Reputation Survey is conducted annually from 10,000 respondents which
present all dimensions of global academic community