Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), originally founded as the Melli University (National University of Iran) , is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers programs at Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. levels.

History

Shahid Behesti University was founded in 1959 by Ali Sheikholislam. The university was planned to be devoted to graduate studies. At its opening, it consisted of two schools: Architecture and Urban Planning, and Banking and Economics, with 174 students. Soon the School of Literature and Foreign Languages began in downtown Tehran. The first graduate academic degree program was the Master's course in the School of Architecture, launched in 1961. In 1962, a new main campus was built in Evin, a suburb in the north of Tehran. By 1978 other faculties became active i.e.the faculties of Literature and Human Sciences, Basic Sciences, Law, Earth Sciences, Statistics and Informatics and Education and Psychology. In an academic reform in 1986, the medical schools were separated from the main universities and became Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences working under the purview of the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education. The first PhD course was offered in the School of Economics in 1991. Shahid Beheshti University has been sanctioned by governments in the EU, US, Australia, Canada, and Switzerland for their links to Iran's nuclear program. This restricts business and financial transactions with the university, in some cases including its students.

Campuses

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Notable people

Alumni

Politics

Academics

Art

Faculty

Engineering

Humanities

World rankings

Times Higher Education 2018-2020: 801-1000 2017: 800 2016: 601-800 Asia University Rankings 2019: 201–250 Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019: 901-1000