Tehran, Aug16, IRNA � New global ranking for the world universities shows an improvement in the status of three top Iranian universities, ranking Iran higher by giving the Islamic Republic seven points.

According to the Islami World Science Citation, Iran's new ranking comes after analyzing the overall performance of Tehran, Sharif and Amir Kabir universities, as three top universities in the Islamic Republic.

'Tehran University is ranked as the best university in Iran. It has improved its performances significantly each year to be ranked among 300 world universities in 2015,' says the ISC citing the Shanghai ranking report.

Sharif University ranks the second best university in Iran, following Tehran University.

For the first time, Sharif University has been included in the Shanghai comprehensive list of 500 world top universities.

By IRNA