The dean of the faculty of Mechanical Engineering said: "Currently, more than 337 master students and 142 doctoral students are conducting their research under the supervision of supervisors."

The Shanghai 2020 thematic ranking report shows that Tarbiat Modares University is among the top world universities in the fields of technical and engineering sciences (mechanical engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, energy science and engineering, water resources, food science and technology, biotechnology, mining science and engineering), natural sciences (earth sciences), biological sciences (agricultural sciences and veterinary sciences) and in the field of medical sciences (nursing).

Tarbiat Modares University's "Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics" (editor-in-chief of Dr. Ali Asghar Talebi) was ranked first among 21 specialized scientific journals in medicinal plant and entomology. According to the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC), ?the Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics? (with IF = 0.705 and based on Q1 quality index), which has been published since 2015, ranks first among 21 specialized journals in medicinal plant and entomology. It is also ranked third among 373 journals in the field of agriculture and biology, and seventh among 736 biology journals.

According to Iran's Waste Management law, special or hazardous waste are all waste that need special care due to at least one of their hazardous properties such as toxicity, pathogenicity, explosiveness or flammability, corrosion and reactivity. Therefore, those medical waste, as well as some of the normal, industrial and agricultural wastes that require special management, are considered as special or hazardous wastes.

International memorandums of understanding have been concluded among the faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, the University of Lisbon, Portugal, the University of Guangzhou, China and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

The new building of the Persian Language Training Center was inaugurated on September 8 in the presence of the Tarbiat Modares University chancellor, the Executive Vice-President of Science Ministry for the Development of Persian Language and Iranology in abroad universities and scientific centers.

Razieh Najafloo, a PhD student in bioinformatics, was among the winners of the 21st International Congress of "Royan" Reproductive Medicine.

The second French-language student conference, which was scheduled for March in person, was held online on September 1, sponsored by the University's French language student scientific association.

Evaluations of the Leiden ranking system represent that the ranking of Iranian universities, including Tarbiat Modares University, has significantly improved in this ranking.

The article extracted from the doctoral dissertation of Leila Gholami, a PhD graduate of watershed management engineering department, faculty of natural resources and marine sciences, entitled "Straw Mulching Effect on Splash Erosion, Runoff, and Sediment Yield from Eroded Plots" with the guidance of Dr. Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi (academic member of natural resources faculty) that advised by Dr. Mehdi Homayee (academic member of agriculture faculty), was introduced as the year top article of Soil Science Society of America.