Ranking
System of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
Currently,
the Islamic Conference organization encompassing 57 Islamic countries has aimed
to improve the status of universities in the Islamic world by designing a
special evaluation and ranking system known as the ranking system of Islamic
world universities. Muslims account for around one-fifth of the world's
population (1.3-1.4 billion people). Among the Islamic countries, the highest
number of articles is related to Turkey, Iran, and Egypt, respectively. At the
2005 Islamic Conference in Mecca, a fact was shared concerning the presence of
an insufficient number of Islamic world universities on the list of the 500 top
universities in the world. Therefore, it was proposed that a special ranking
system be designed and established by Islamic countries themselves to rank the
Islamic world universities. At the same meeting, it was stipulated that the top
20 Islamic universities in the Islamic world should be funded by the Islamic
Conference Bank, so that their ranking improvement could occur in other global
ranking systems. It is notable that the methods and indicators of this ranking
system were compiled and finalized on the 2006 and 2007 summits.
The
indexes of this rating system include the following five items:
1.
Evaluation index of research activities with 50% weight
2.
Evaluation index of educational activities with 30% weight
3.
International monetary evaluation index with 7% weight
4.
Facilities assessment index with 3% weight
5.
The assessment index of socio-economic activities with 10% weight of each of
these areas is also divided into the following topics:
A)
Evaluation Indexes of Research Activities
1.
Research quality based on the average number of citations to the number of
articles published
2.
Research efficiency based on the number of articles published on the number of
faculty members of the institution
3.
Research volume based on the number of articles published in the evaluation year
4.
The growth rate of research quality based on the equation defined
5.
The growth rate of research efficiency based on the equation defined
6.
Prizes based on the number of awards received by the institution
B)
Evaluation Indexes of Educational Activities
1.
Number of awarded faculty members
2.
Number of highly-cited professors in ISI and ISC
3.
The ratio of faculty members holding a PhD to all faculty members
4.
Number of graduates receiving scientific awards
5.
Number of highly-cited graduates in ISI and ISC
6.
Faculty member to student ratio
7.
Graduate students to all students ratio
8.
The growth rate of graduate students
9.
Successful students to achieving international awards ratio
C) International Reputation Assessment Indicators
1. The ratio of the faculty members to the entire faculty
2. The ratio of international students to all students
3. The ratio of faculty members with a doctoral degree to
all faculty members with PhD
4. Number of international conferences held by the
university
5. Number of international cooperation
D) Facilities Indicators
1. The per capita of the number of book titles per student
2. The number of periodical journals and publications
3. The number of research institutions and centers
affiliated with the university
E) Indicators of Socio-economic Criterion
1. The ratio of contractual earned income and consultations
to total university revenue
2. Total number of retraining courses held
3. The ratio of the number of students participating in
entrepreneurship projects and communication with the industry to the total
number of students