Based on the latest release and update of the 2025 Shanghai Subject Rankings, Amirkabir University of Technology has achieved a distinguished position among the world’s top universities in the field of Marine Engineering.

The University’s notable positions in the 2025 Shanghai Subject Rankings are as follows:

• Rank 51–75: Mining Engineering

• Rank 76–100: Marine Engineering

• Rank 151–200: Metallurgical Engineering

• Rank 201–300: Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Information Science and Technology, Civil Engineering

• Rank 301–400: Engineering Sciences, Telecommunications Engineering

The Shanghai Ranking is recognized as one of the most reputable global university ranking systems. In 2025, for the ninth consecutive year, it published the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. In this edition, more than 2,000 universities from 100 countries were evaluated across 57 subjects grouped into five broad disciplinary areas.

The evaluation criteria of this ranking system are based on objective indicators and third-party data, categorized into five main groups:

• Global academic achievements of faculty members (including Nobel Prizes and Highly Cited Researchers)

• World-class research output of universities (Q1 journal publications)

• High-quality research (average citations per paper and international collaborations)

• Research impact (number of publications, publication quality, and citation counts)

• International collaboration