The Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology has announced new criteria for ranking the country’s universities based on indices of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) The new criteria are related to ‘students, culture, and society’ as well as ‘management and productivity’, IRIB quoted Ahmad Fazelzadeh, head of the ISC, as saying. A total of 377 universities from 29 Islamic countries were listed in the ranking, where Turkey with 93 universities, and Iran with 69 universities