Round University Ranking (RUR) revealed that Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) is in the second place in the ranking of the top universities in Iran after Tehran University of Medical Sciences. According to RUR in 2021, Isfahan University of Technology is the second top university in Iran with a global ranking of 216 among 867 leading universities in the world, and 12 Iranian universities in this ranking system.

After Isfahan University of Technology, the University of Tehran, Iran University of Science and Technology, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, and Shahid Beheshti University are in the next places of this ranking system for 2021. The purpose of this ranking system is to measure the performance of the world's top institutions based on four key areas of education, research, global diversity and financial sustainability. In this report, IUT is ranked 195 in education, 182 in research, 665 in global diversity, and 188 in financial sustainability.

RUR was established in Moscow in 2013, which evaluates more than 800 institutions of higher education based on 20 indicators and annually reveals the rankings of the world's top universities.