In 2022, the Shanghai Ranking System published the subject rankings of the world's top universities. In this ranking, 1,800 universities were ranked out of 5,000 observed universities.
Shahrood University of Technology was ranked 201-300 in Mechanical Engineering and 301-400 in Energy Science Engineering among the top universities in the world and the top 10 universities in Iran.
Shanghai Ranking is one of the most reliable international ranking systems that annually evaluates and ranks the scientific performance of universities and research institutes around the world in a general and thematic manner baxsed on its indicators. In its subject ranking in 2022, which is baxsed on the performance of universities in 2016-2020, this system ranks universities and research institutes in 54 fields in the form of 5 general fields, including engineering field (22 fields), basic science field (8 fields), the field of biological sciences (4 fields), the field of medical sciences (6 fields), and the field of social sciences (14 fields).
It is worthwhile to mention that only universities with the minimum number of scientific productions during the period 2016-2020 on the Web of Science databaxse can be evaluated in these areas.