Every year, the universities of the world are ranked in an international ranking system called "Green Metric" to measure their greenness factors. In this ranking system, universities are evaluated based on six factors of spaces and infrastructure, energy management, waste management, water management, transportation management, and green education and research. Through the efforts of Green University Management Office, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad managed to receive the global ranking of 337 as well as ranking 9th at the national level among 41 Iranian universities and the second place among the top-tier Iranian universities.