EghtesadOnline: Currently, some 55,000 foreign students are studying in Iranian universities while the number is expected to increase to 80,000 by the Sixth Five-Year Development Plan (2017-22), deputy science minister for international affairs said.

EghtesadOnline: Times Higher Education (THE) has listed names of eighteen Iranian universities among world top ones, Head of Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) said on Wednesday.

EghtesadOnline: Joint courses between domestic universities and top 100 universities across the world will be held in near future, Iranian deputy minister for international scientific cooperation, Hossein Salar Amoli announced.

EghtesadOnline: Companies affiliated to the Oil Ministry on Monday signed 12 research and development contracts with nine universities and research institutions in the downstream petroleum sector.

EghtesadOnline: Tehran University, University of Zanjan and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were among 500 top universities of UI GreenMetric World University Ranking in 2016.

EghtesadOnline: The 60th Anniversary of Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL) International Conference opened on Monday attended by several university representatives from several countries, Iran in particular.