- Shahid Beheshti University
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Shahid Beheshti University دانشگاه شهید بهشتی 
Established March 20, 1960 Type Public Endowment US$ 734 million[1] Academic staff Faculties Location Tehran, Tehran province, Iran Campus Urban Website www.sbu.ac.ir Shahid Beheshti University was formerly The National University of Iran (NUI). The university's name was changed during the cultural revolution in Iranian universities, 1980-82. 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.
Contents
Schools
- School of Architecture & Urban Engineering
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Construction
- Department of Design
- Department for History of Architecture and Preservation
- Department of Reconstruction
- Department of Urban Planning
- School of Business & Management
- Department of State Management
- Department of Business Management
- Department of Commercial Management
- Department of Financial Management
- Department of Industrial Management
- Institute for Research
- School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Department of Computer Engineering
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- School of Ecological Sciences
- Department of Biology
- Department of Genetics
- Department of Marine Biology
- Department of Microbiology
- Department of Plant Sciences
- Department of Zoology
- School of Economics & Political Sciences
- Department of Economics
- Department of Political Sciences
- School of Energy Sciences & Modern Technologies
- Department of Aeronautics
- Department of Biotechnology
- Department of Energy
- Department of Nanotechnology
- Department of Cellulose and Paper sciences
- School of Geological Sciences
- Department of Geology
- Department of Geography
- Department of Geophysics
- School of Law
- Department of Criminology & Criminal Law
- Department of Intellectual Property
- Department of International Trade Law
- Department of Economic Law
- Department of Environmental Law
- Department of Human Rights
- Department of International Law
- Department of Private Law
- Department of Public Law
- School of Literature & Human Sciences
- Department of Linguistics and Literature
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of History
- Department of Archaeology
- Department of Sociology
- Institute of Iranology
- Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Computer Sciences
- School of Nuclear Engineering
- Department of Applied Radiation
- Department of Fuel-Recycling
- Department of Radiology (Medical Radiation)
- School of Physical Education & Sport Sciences
- School of Psychology and Education
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Behavioral Studies & Advising
- Department of Educational Sciences
- School of Sciences
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Physics
Research Centers
- Automated Software Engineering Research Group
- Center for Environmental Researches
- Center for Family Researches
- Center for Medicinal Plant and Drug Research Institute
- Center for Laser & Plasma Research (Laser Research Institute)
- Fiber optics
- LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy)
- Magneto-optics
- Non-Destructive Testing
- Polymers and Organic Materials Photonics headed by Dr.Mohajerani
- Center for Pharmaceutical Research
History
Shahid Beheshti University was founded as the National University of Iran in 1959 by Dr. Ali Sheikholislam only to be the first private university in Iran. The university was originally planned to be devoted to graduate studies. At its opening, it consisted of two schools, Architecture and Urban Planning and Banking and Economics, with just 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.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, the university was home mainly to students coming from well-to-do families of Tehran. However, from the mid-1970s onwards, students from plebeian families in Tehran and other Iranian provincial cities began to infiltrate the student body of the university. Under royal auspices, the university library began to acquire some of the most 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.
Notable faculty and alumni
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a graduate of the School of Architecture, the last prime minister in modern Iranian history, and the leader of the Green Movement.
- Abdul Ali Bazargan, one of the most famous intellectuals of the country and the son of Mahdi Bazargan, the well-known thinker, opposition leader under both royal and Islamic regimes, and the first Primer of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
- Hashem Aghajari, a professor of history who was sentenced to death by the Islamic regime of Iran in 2002 on the account of his anti-clerical remarks, but after nationwide demonstrations by Iranian students his life was spared.
- Masoumeh Ebtekar, the first female Vice President in Iranian history.
- Abbas Milani, former professor of political science, now director of Hoover Institution and professor of Iranian Studies at Stanford University
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, world-renowned philosopher, served as chancellor of the university in the mid-1970s.
- Mohsen Sazegara, former government official, political activist. Earned his master's degree in history from the university.
- Sharaf al-Din Khorasani, a graduate of Cambridge University and the most famous professor of Greek philosophy in Iran.
- Amir Parviz Puyan, a leading member and theoretician of the Marxist guerrilla movement in Iran in 1970s, who died in armed confrontation with security forces of the royal regime in southern Tehran.
- Mohammad-Ali Mojtahedi, the first Iranian holder of the doctorat d'état in mathematics from Sorbonne, a professor of mathematics at the University of Tehran, principal of the Alborz High School, founder of the Aryamehr (later Sharif) University of Technology and President of the National University of Iran (later Shahid Beheshti University) in 1969.
- Abbas Safavian, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the private physician of the last Shah of Iran who supervised the medical treatment of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi's blood cancer in late 1970s.
- Kourosh Yaghmaei, one of the first Iranian rock musicians.
See also
- Tehran University
- Higher Education in Iran
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
- Shahid Beheshti's library management system
References
- ^ http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/149763/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86
External links
- Shahid Beheshti University home page
- Research Institute
- Iran Photonics Forum
- Shahid Beheshti University Faculties and PhD Students' Personal Homepage
- Shahid Beheshti's Central Library
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Categories:- Universities in Iran
- Education in Tehran
- Educational institutions established in 1960
- School of Architecture & Urban Engineering
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