Payame Noor University
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About
Payame Noor University (PNU; Persian: Dāneŝgāhe Payāme Nur) is an open university system in Iran, with its headquarters in Tehran. Established in 1988, it is a legal institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran government. Payame Noor means "the message of light" in Persian.
PNU was established in 1988 in the Iran, after having integrated the University of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Iran Azad University. PNU took its first intake in five-degree programs at 28 study centres. Because of the governmental/public type of this university, its tuition is the lowest among all of the non-public universities.
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