Using the WASPAS Method to Rank Industrial Engineering Colleges of Selected Universities in Tehran

Industrial engineering can be regarded as the main core of communication between industry and the university, because it has many applications in all industries and even service environments. Therefore, in this research, selected industrial engineering colleges have been evaluated and ranked. For this purpose, the industrial engineering Colleges of Tarbiat Modarres, Khaje Nasir al-Din Tousi, Amir Kabir, Sharif, Science and Technology, and Tehran universities were studied with regard to eight indicators and ranked using one of the newest Multiple Attribute Decision Making methods called Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS) with Excel 2010 software. The results showed that Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Tehran University because of Earn more score, ranked first, Science and Technology University, second rank, Amirkabir University, Third Rank, Sharif University, Fourth Rank, Tarbiat Modares University, fifth rank, and finally Khaje Nasir-Al-Din Tusi University ranked the last. In the meantime, number of books and papers published per faculty members were identified as the most important indicators. Therefore, the encouragement of faculty members to the research field can play main role in increasing the rank of universities.