TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Sharif University of Technology is the best university in the world for a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, said the chancellor of Stanford University in the United States.

The university with the highest number of graduates who passed the most recent entrance exam for Stanford University's Ph.D. program in electrical engineering was Sharif University of Technology, the Persian language daily Sharif reported.

Fifteen Iranian students passed the exam, most of them graduates of Sharif University of Technology. The students who got the three top scores were all Sharif graduates.

This is the first time that a foreign university has had more students accepted for Stanford University's Ph.D. program in electrical engineering than any U.S. university.