University of Tehran
| University of Tehran دانشگاه تهران |
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| motto | Don't stop studying for a second. |
| founding | 1934 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Tehran |
| country |
 Iran
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| president | Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi |
| Students | 50,448 |
| Networks | FUIW , IAU |
| Website | www.ut.ac.ir |
The University of Tehran ( Persian دانشگاه تهران) is the oldest and most respected university in Tehran . With over 50,000 students and 2,150 academic employees, it is also the largest university in all of Iran .
The University of Tehran was founded in 1934 by order of Reza Shah by merging existing educational institutions as the first university in Iran. The well-known medical faculty goes back to Dar-ol Fonun , which was founded in 1851 . The Faculties of Fine Arts & Architecture , Agricultural Sciences and Law consist of various universities founded by European scientists between 1899 and 1918. The university was continuously expanded in the following years through the establishment of further faculties. 2004, the first master's degree program for entrepreneurs (was here Entrepreneurship ) established in Iran.
Female students were also admitted from the start.
Faculties
In 1934 the University of Tehran consisted of six faculties, to which ten more have been added over the past seventy years.
- theology
- Natural sciences
- Literature , Philosophy and Education
- medicine
- Technology and engineering
- Law , Politics and Economics
such as
- Fine arts , music & architecture (1941)
- Veterinary medicine (1943)
- Agricultural Science (1945)
- Business Administration (1954)
- Pedagogy (1954)
- Natural resources (1963)
- Economics (1970)
- Modern Languages (1989)
- Environmental Science (1992)
- Sports science
Well-known graduates
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- Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad , writer
- Shirin Ebadi (* 1947), Iranian lawyer and human rights activist
- Heydar Ghiai , architect
- Behzad Ghorbani (* 1971), zoologist
- Abbas Kiarostami (* 1940), screenwriter, film director and poet
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi (1947–2014), Târ and Setar player and composer
- Hassan Ali Mansour (1923–1965), Iranian Prime Minister
- Shahrnush Parsipur (* 1946), writer
- Ezatollah Sahabi (1930–2011), politician and critic of the regime
- Parviz Varjavand († June 10, 2007), archaeologist, was involved a. a. for the inclusion of Persepolis and Naqsh-e Jahan - Square (formerly Königsplatz, today Imamplatz ), Isfahan in the list of the UNESCO world cultural heritage
- Ehsan Yarshater (1920–2018), was the editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica
- Lotfi Zadeh (* 1921), inventor of fuzzy logic and now professor emeritus at UC Berkeley.
- Nasser Zahedi (* 1961), resident doctor, author and translator in Leverkusen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry by the University of Tehran in WHED
- ↑ a b University of Tehran: Facts and Figures (as of December 1, 2014). Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ^ List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, accessed September 1, 2019 .
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed July 31, 2019 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 43 '58 " N , 51 ° 23' 19.9" E