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Six Iranian universities have been placed in the top 1,000 of the 2024 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), up from five in 2023. Tehran University leads the Iranian institutions in the 301-400 band, while the new entrant, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, ranks in the 801-900 group.
A shooting at Virginia State University early Saturday wounded five people, one critically, forcing a campus lockdown that lasted several hours. Multiple suspects are involved, and the investigation is ongoing.
Facing tight budgets, universities are being pushed by tech companies to integrate AI. Students and faculty express skepticism as institutions sign costly deals, risking a loss of educational values. The trend threatens to turn universities into mere cogs in a Big Tech profit machine.
