Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) (, ''Dâneshgâh-e 'elm va San'at-e Irân'') is a research institution and

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and

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Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. The university is home to 15 faculties offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in a wide range of engineering-based subjects as well as maths, physics, and department of foreign languages. In 1995 IUST awarded Iran’s first PhDs in materials, metallurgical and traffic engineering. IUST is the only university in the Middle East which has a school of railway engineering and a school of progress engineering. It is also the only university in Iran which has a school of

automotive engineering Automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and naval architecture, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of Mechanical engineering, mechanical, Electrical engineering, electrical, Electronic engineering, electro ...

. There are also 12 research centres, nine centres of excellence and 19 specialised libraries as well as four satellite campuses in other parts of the country. IUST is located on Hengam Street in the Narmak neighborhood in northeast

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

. The 20,000 capacity IUST Stadium, which is used mostly for

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, is their main sports venue.

History

Iran University of Science and Technology was founded in 1929 as the first Iranian Institution to train engineers, named the Governmental Technical Institute. Soon it was named "Honarsarā-ye Ālī" (Persian: ; Advanced Art College in English). In 1932, the first Iranian graduated in Machine Engineering and in 1935 the first Iranian graduated in Chemical Engineering. In 1958, the Institute started to enroll students for Masters programs under the name of Tehran Institute of Technology (TIT). In 1963, the Institute transferred to its current location in Narmak in northeast Tehran. In 1972, the title of the college upgraded to the Iran Faculty of Science and Technology due to the growth of the institute by the Ministry of Sciences. The faculty offered four-year bachelor's degrees in most areas of engineering and it is the first and for many years the only engineering university that consist of School of Architecture in the country. In 1978, it was granted University Status by the Ministry of Sciences. Since then the institute was named Iran University of Science and Technology. In 1990 it admitted students to Ph.D. programs in Civil Engineering and Materials Engineering fields. In 1995, IUST awarded the first Ph.D. degrees in Iran in the fields of Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Traffic Engineering. The main campus has 15 faculties and three other departments with 380 members of the academic board. On the main campus, 9,000 students are studying in 90 fields of engineering and sciences, out of which 2,000 are M.Sc. and 546 are Ph.D. students. Over 50,000 students have graduated since 1932.

Campus

Northeast of Tehran is where the main campus is situated, expanded in . Four further campuses of IUST are located in the cities of Arak, Behshahr, Damavand, and Noor; the latter two are still under construction.

Academics

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IUST has 15 schools, 44 instruction groups, and 83 fields of study. Over 5,500 students study in the B.Sc program, over 5,400 students are studying in M.Sc. and over 940 are doing Ph.D. disciplines. School of

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

*Departments: **Electronic **Bioelectrical Engineering **Communication **Power **Control School of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

*Departments: **Solid Mechanics **Fluid Mechanics **Production and Manufacturing **Aerospace Engineering **Biomechanics School of

materials science Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses for materials in other fields and industries. The intellectual origins of materials sci ...

*Departments: **Casting **Industrial Metallurgy **Extractive Metallurgy **Ceramic **Extraction of Metals **Biomaterial **Ceramic School of

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

*Departments: **Environmental and Water Resources Engineering **Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering **Highway Engineering **Structural Engineering **Transportation Engineering and Planning **Geomatics Engineering School of

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

*Departments: **Industrial Engineering **Systems Engineering **Productivity Management Other schools: *School of Progress Engineering *School of Automotive Engineering *School of Railway Engineering *School of Mathematics *School of Chemistry *School of Chemical, Petroleum, and Gas Engineering *School of New Technologies *School of Physics *School of Computer Engineering *School of Architecture and Environmental Design Departments: *Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences *Department of Foreign Languages

Extracurricular activities and association

Iran University of Science and Technology's most significant associations are: * Student's Theater association * Student's Music association * Student's Literature association * Student's Film association

Research

Advanced and High-Tech Research Activities at IUST include: * Hydrostructures at the Department of Civil Engineering * Electronics at the Department of Electrical Engineering * Field of Advanced Materials at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering * Nano Technology as interdepartmental research * Bio-technology in the Department of Medical Engineering * Hydrodynamics, experimental and numerical fluid dynamics research laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering The University Research Centers include: * Architecture Research Center * Automotive Research Center * Cement Research Center * Center of Excellence in Experimental Solid Mechanics and Dynamics * Center of Excellence in Islamic Architecture * Electronic Research Center * Green Research Center * Information Technology Research Center * Iran Composites Institute * Materials Research Center * Research Center for ICT Strategic and International Studies

World rankings

''Times Higher Education'' * 2024–2025: National Rank: 3, Rank in Asia: 79 * 2020–2021: National Rank: 1, Rank in Asia: 11 * 2016–2017: National Rank: 1 * 2015–2016: National Rank: 1, Rank in Asia: 4, International Rank: 9 * 2014–2015: National Rank: 3, Rank in Asia: 69 According to ''

QS World University Rankings The ''QS World University Rankings'' is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm. Its first and earliest edition was published in collaboration with '' Times ...

'' 2016–2017 Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) ranked as the second university of Iran after Sharif University of Technology and 491–500 among world universities. Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) ranked 436th among World universities and 78th in Mathematics and computer science according to 2011–2014

CWTS Leiden Ranking The CWTS Leiden Ranking is an annual global university ranking based exclusively on bibliometric indicators. The rankings are compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies ( Dutch: ''Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologische Studies' ...

. In 2017, the '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked IUST Engineering Sciences 113th among world universities. Also, Materials Science of IUST ranked 169 among World Universities. According to ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017, IUST has been ranked 101–150 among world universities in Metallurgical Engineering and also 151–200 in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering. U.S. News & World Report *2020 Best Global Universities Ranking **Global Ranking: 870 **Engineering : 180 **Chemistry: 624 **Civil Engineering : 88 **Materials Science : 280 **Mechanical Engineering : 98

Notable people

Presidents

Notable faculty members

Notable alumni

Politics and government

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born Mahmoud Sabbaghian on 28 October 1956) is an Iranian Iranian principlists, principlist and Iranian nationalism, nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a mem ...

(B.S., M.S., PhD. 1997) - sixth

President of Iran The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran () is the head of government of the Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the Supreme Leader of Iran, supreme leader. The 1980 Iranian presidential election, fi ...

, and former

Mayor of Tehran The Mayor of Tehran is an elected politician who, along with the City Council of Tehran, City Council of 21 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Tehran. Since 2 September 2021, Alireza Zakani is the mayor of Tehran. Previously, ...

* Hamid Behbahani (B.S.) - former Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology * Kamran Daneshjoo (B.S.) - former Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology * AbdolReza Sheikhol Eslami (B.S., M.S., PhD.) - former Iranian Minister of Employment * Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi (B.S.) - former Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance * Seyyed Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh (B.S.) - former Iranian Minister of Petroleum *

Mohsen Rezaee Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed (, born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed (); born 1 September 1954) is an Iranian conservative politician affiliated with the Resistance Front of Islamic Iran and senior military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...

(B.S.) - former Chief Commander of the

IRGC The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is a multi-service primary branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. It was officially established by Ruhollah Khomeini as a military branch in May 1979 i ...

, and former secretary of the

Expediency Discernment Council The Expediency Discernment Council of the System ( ''Majma'-e Tašxis-e Maslahat-e Nezâm'') is an administrative assembly of Iran appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Supreme Leader and was created upon the revision to the Constitution of ...

of the

Islamic Republic of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

* Alireza Ali Ahmadi (B.S.) - former Iranian

Minister of Education An education minister (sometimes minister of education) is a position in the governments of some countries responsible for dealing with educational matters. Where known, the government department, ministry, or agency that develops policy and deli ...

, former president of

Payame Noor University Payame Noor University (PNU; Persian language, Persian: Dāneŝgāhe Payāme Nur) is an Open university (concept), open university in Iran, with its headquarters in Tehran. Established in 1988, it is a legal institution under the supervision of t ...

* Mohammad Soleimani (B.S.) - former Minister of Information and Communications Technology * Mehdi Ghazanfari (B.S. 1986) - former Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade and former Minister of Commerce * Bahman Eshghi (B.S.) — Secretary-General of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture

Business

Alireza Nasiri Alireza Nasiri (; born 21 March 1968) is an Iranian academic, business manager and technocrat. He played a leading role in the establishment of online degree programs in Iran in the early 2000s, founding University of Tehran's first online progr ...

(B.S. 1993) - founder of online degree programs in

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

and father of commercial forestation in Iran

Academia

* Abdollah Jasbi (B.S.) - former president of

Islamic Azad University The Islamic Azad University (IAU; , ''Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi'') is a Private university, private university system Headquarters, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. It is one of the largest comprehensive systems of university, universities in ...

* Mohammad Ali Barkhordari (B.S.) - professor of

, former president of Yazd University, University of Zanjan, and Iran University of Science and Technology * Sayyed Mahdi Abtahi (B.S.) - professor of

, former president of Isfahan University of Technology * Jalil Shahi (B.S.) - professor of

, founder and former president of Yazd University, and former president of Iran University of Science and Technology

Film, television, radio, popular culture

* Tahmineh Milani (B.S. 1986) - Iranian film director *

Homayoun Khorram Ostad Homayoun Khorram (), (June 30, 1930 – January 17, 2013) was an Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and a member of the high council of Iran's house of music. Khorram began his music career as a violinist at the age of 10 by participa ...

(B.S.) - Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and a member of the high council of Iran's House of Music

Writing and journalism

* Touka Neyestani (B.S.) - Iranian political cartoonist * Ali Abolhassani (B.S. 1975) - Iranian contemporary historiograph Image:Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_2019_02.jpg,

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