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Shahid Beheshti University (SBU)

Iran (Islamic Republic of)Asia

#741

QS World University Rankings 2026

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QS 2026 overall score

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Ranking data

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#741

QS World University Rankings 2026

#851

QS World University Rankings 2025

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QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

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Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
11.8
QS 2026 rank
#701

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
22.5
QS 2026 rank
#590

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
6
QS 2026 rank
#801

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
49.4
QS 2026 rank
#377

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
5.2
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
24.7
QS 2026 rank
#668

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
25.1
QS 2026 rank
#683

International research network

QS 2026 score
68
QS 2026 rank
#567

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
24.2
QS 2026 rank
#654

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
33.6
QS 2026 rank
#801
University profile

About Shahid Beheshti University (SBU)

Shahid Beheshti University covers science, engineering, architecture, and the social sciences

Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran presents an academic structure that brings natural science, engineering, architecture, economics, law, management, humanities, and social research into one university. Its public faculty map includes physics, chemistry, mathematical sciences, earth sciences, biological sciences, computer sciences, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical and energy engineering, nuclear engineering, architecture and urban planning, management and accounting, economics and political sciences, law, literature and foreign languages, cognitive science, and social sciences. This range supports both specialised and cross-field questions.

The science and engineering faculties provide routes for physical systems, materials, energy, computation, buildings, urban services, and biological processes. Economics, management, political science, and law work with organisations, markets, institutions, rules, and public decisions. Literature, languages, philosophy, and social sciences use texts, archives, communities, media, and observed behaviour. A research question should identify the faculty that owns the main evidence before it moves across several fields.

SBU research institutes connect lasers, cognition, environment, and digital systems

The university's research infrastructure includes specialist institutes and centres working across areas such as lasers and plasma, cognitive and brain science, environmental studies, applied physics, biotechnology, energy, materials, and information technology. These themes need different routes into evidence. A laser or materials project requires an instrument, sample, signal, or physical property. Cognitive science needs a participant group, behavioural task, neural measure, or computational model. Environmental research depends on a site, sample, climate record, pollutant, or resource process.

Architecture and urban-planning work can study buildings, neighbourhoods, transport, public space, or energy use. Computer science and electrical engineering require software, data, networks, circuits, signals, or control systems. Business and social research may use organisations, services, policies, households, or communities. An interdisciplinary plan is possible when it states which method produces the main result and why the supporting field is needed.

How to assess a Shahid Beheshti University route

Define the evidence before selecting a centre. Physics and chemistry need a material, reaction, instrument, equation, or measurement. Engineering needs a device, structure, process, energy system, or performance test. Computer science needs software, records, an algorithm, or a defined user context. Biology and cognitive science need a specimen, population, task, or biological measure. Architecture and planning need a site, building, map, or public-space observation. Humanities and social sciences need language, records, institutions, people, or cultural practice.

For SBU, name the faculty and responsible institute or centre first. Then add the question, method, study language, intended output, and one current route page. Use a research institute to find people and facilities, then identify the academic unit responsible for the project. Describe the proposed work as laboratory, computational, field-based, clinical, mathematical, archival, textual, design-led, or policy-oriented only after the object is clear. Tehran may be the study setting, a comparison point, or simply where the research group is located. Explain which role it has and what the project will observe there. A short note about the first dataset, sample, map, interview, model, or design test keeps the route focused when the university's list of faculties is broad. It also helps separate a cognitive experiment from an urban study, a computer system, an environmental observation, or a policy analysis.

A practical SBU research question

A Shahid Beheshti question should connect the research object with a result that can be checked. It might compare a physical measurement, model a power system, analyse a brain or behaviour dataset, map an urban condition, interpret a language archive, or examine a public decision. State the source of evidence and the responsible faculty, then use the relevant institute to refine the method and identify the people who work on it.

Institution record

Country
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Region
Asia
Status
Public
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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