Shahid Beheshti University

Shahid Beheshti University (SBU)
دانشگاه شهید بهشتی
Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti
Type Public
Established 1959
Endowment US$ 78.67 million
(December 10, 2014)[1]
Chancellor Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi
Students 17067
Undergraduates 7507
Postgraduates 9560
Location IranTehran, Tehran province, Iran
35°48′08″N 51°23′36″E / 35.80222°N 51.39333°E / 35.80222; 51.39333Coordinates: 35°48′08″N 51°23′36″E / 35.80222°N 51.39333°E / 35.80222; 51.39333
Campus Urban
Website en.sbu.ac.ir (English)

Shahid Beheshti University is a university in Iran. Established in 1959 as the National University of Iran (NUI), the university started its academic life 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.

History

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 in total. Soon the School of Literature and Foreign Languages began its life 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 2013 spring, Power and Water University of Technology (PWUT) was merged into the Shahid Beheshti University As a result, the former PWUT became a part of the Shahid Beheshti University.

Campuses

It is located in Evin District and extends into Velenjak District in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on a main campus of approximately one million square meters. The university was founded in 1959. 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 within the purview of the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

Faculties

Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
School of Biological Sciences in Shahid Beheshti University in Iran, Tehran.

Research centers

Notable faculty and alumni

World rankings

[3] World ranking 1
Category B++
Article 64.80
Citation 63.34
Total Document 30.59
JIT 54.25
JCIT 45.11
Collaboration 45.32
Total 303.42

See also

References

  1. "Financial information=December 10 2014".
  2. http://www.pwut.ac.ir/EN/About/Pages/MessageMGR.aspx
  3. "University Ranking by Academic Performance". None. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
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