Tarbiat Modares University

Infobox University


© Tarbiat Modares University
name=Tarbiat Modares University
دانشگاه تربیت مدرس
motto=
established=1982
type=Public
city=Tehran
state=Tehran
country=Iran
president=Farhad Daneshjo
postgrad=6000
postgrad_label=graduate
campus=Urban
website=http://www.modares.ac.ir

Tarbiat Modares University (دانشگاه تربیت مدرس) is located in Tehran, Iran. It was founded in 1982. The current president of Tarbiat Modares University is F. Daneshjo.

Colleges

Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) is a fully Accredited Graduate University and a prestigious center for higher education in Iran [Citation needed] . TMU has 7 colleges: Arts, Engineering, Agriculture, Basic Sciences, Humanities, Natural Resources, Marine Sciences and Medical Sciences. It is the only university in Iran which offers a master program for Medical Biotechnology and only 6-9 students are admitted annually according on their performance in National Graduate Studies Entrance Exam concours.

tatistics

*research centers:13
*academic faculty members:478
*adjoint faculty members:900
*master programs:129
*PhD programs:77
*master students:3203
*PhD students:1272
*master alumni:1413
*PhD alumni:9696
*labs:198
*employees:464
*Ranking between the top universities of Middle-East and North-Africa region according to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities in 2007: 11Rank in Iran: 3

Alumni

Notable alumni include Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (محمد باقر قالیباف) the Mayor of Tehran and Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi(محمد مهدی زاهدی) the current Science minister of Iran (notice that he get his Msc in mathematics from this university)

University name

The University's is not named for Sayyed Hassan Modaress, the revolutionist cleric. Rather, it is a reference to its original purpose, in response to the expulsion from Iran of professors who supported the Shah's regime. Tarbiat Modares University was initially in charge of training (tarbiat, تربيت, in Persian) university lecturers (modares, مدرس, in Persian), and selecting its students after an "ideologic" screening process. Later, however, it admitted students similar to other universities.

ee also

*Higher Education in Iran

External links

* [http://www.modares.ac.ir/ Official website]