Sharif University of Technology International Campus
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Sharif University of Technology (Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی شریف, romanized: Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-e Sharif) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university is an institution for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Established in 1966 under the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, it was named in his honor as Aryamehr University of Technology (Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی آریامهر, romanized: Dāneŝgāhe Sannatiye Āryāmehr) and for a short period after the 1979 revolution, the university was called Tehran University of Technology but then it was renamed to Sharif University of Technology after Majid Sharif Vaghefi, a leading dissident member of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
Sharif University of Technology is widely regarded as the leading engineering and STEM-focused university in Iran and one of the most prestigious technical universities in the Middle East. The university is known for its highly selective admissions process through Iran's national university entrance examination (Konkur), and is often referred to as the "MIT of Iran" or the "MIT of the Middle East" due to its emphasis on science, engineering, and technology education.
Today, the university provides both undergraduate and graduate programs in 15 main departments. The student body consists of about 6,000 undergraduate students and 4,700 graduate students from all the 31 provinces of Iran. Funding for Sharif University is provided by the government and through private funding. Undergraduate admission to Sharif is limited to the top 800 of the 500,000 students who pass the national entrance examination administered annually by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.
In 2023, according to U.S. News & World Report, the world ranking of this university reached 598.
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