Shahid Beheshti University
| دانشگاه شهید بهشتی Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti |
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1959 |
| Endowment |
US$ 78.67 million (December 10, 2014) |
| Chancellor | Hassan Sadough |
| Students | 17067 |
| Undergraduates | 7507 |
| Postgraduates | 9560 |
| Location |
 Tehran, Tehran province, Iran35°48′08″N 51°23′36″E / 35.80222°N 51.39333°ECoordinates: 35°48′08″N 51°23′36″E / 35.80222°N 51.39333°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website |
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Shahid Beheshti University is a university in Iran. Established in 1959 as the National University of Iran (NUI), the university started in 1960 with 174 students in the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Faculty of Banking and Economics. The first Master's course at SBU was offered in the Faculty of Architecture in 1961, while the first Ph.D. program was introduced in the Faculty of Economics in 1991. The university's name was changed during the Cultural Revolution in Iranian universities, 1980-82.
Today, there are 69 programs at Bachelor's, 208 at Master's and 136 at Ph.D. levels. By 1978 several 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.
Shahid Beheshti University was founded as the National University of Iran in 1959 by Ali Sheikholislam, the first private university in Iran. 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. Academic offerings expanded as facilities were added. The first PhD course was offered in the School of Economics in 1991.
Under royal auspices, the university library began to acquire important collections in the field of Oriental studies and literary classics in French and German. During that period, the university library ranked in importance second in the country only to Aryamehr (later Sharif) University of Technology.
In spring 2013, Power and Water University of Technology (PWUT) was merged into Shahid Beheshti University.
The main campus is in Evin District and extends into Velenjak District in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on approximately one million square meters.
Due to 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.
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