Sharif University of Technology

Sharif University of Technology
  • دانشگاه صنعتی شریف

Dāneshgāh-e sana'ti-e sharif
Former name
Aryamehr University of Technology
Motto in English
The Place of Intellectuals and Elites
Transforming National Talents into Global Bests
TypePublic Research University
Established1966; 58 years ago (1966)[1]
EndowmentUS$ 0.5 billion (2021)[2]
PresidentAbbas Mousavi[3]
Academic staff
460 (Full-time) (Fall 2022)
Administrative staff
395 (2021)
Students10,812 (Fall 2022)
Undergraduates5,659 (2021)
Postgraduates3,390 (2021)
989 (2021)
Location
Tehran
,
Tehran province
,
Iran

35°42′6.47″N 51°21′5.18″E / 35.7017972°N 51.3514389°E / 35.7017972; 51.3514389
CampusUrban, 74 acres (29.9 ha)
NewspaperSharif Daily
Scientia Iranica
Colors  Dark Blue
Sporting affiliations
19 sports
IUSF
Websiteen.sharif.edu

Sharif University of Technology (SUT); (Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی شریف, romanized : Dāneshgāh-e sana'ti-e sharif) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. Nicknamed "the MIT of Iran",[citation needed] it is widely considered to be the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Every year, the smartest and the most prospective students in Iran, ranked according to the results of the Iranian University Entrance Exam, choose to study at SUT at Bachelor's, Master's as well as PhD levels. For those students who wish to study STEM related fields, especially the most popular ones such as Computer engineering, Electrical engineering and Mechanical engineering, Sharif University of Technology is the toughest Iranian university to get admission to.

Established in 1966 under the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, it was formerly named the Aryamehr University of Technology (Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی آریامهر, romanized: Dāneŝgāhe Sannatiye Āryāmehr) and for a short period after the 1979 revolution, the university was called Tehran University of Technology. Following the revolution, the university was named after Majid Sharif Vaghefi.

Today, the university provides both undergraduate and graduate programs in 15 main departments. The student body consists of about 6,000[4] undergraduate students and 4,700[4] graduate students from all the 31 provinces of Iran. Funding for Sharif University is provided by the government and through private funding. Undergraduate admission to Sharif is limited to the top 800 of the 500,000 students who pass the national entrance examination administered annually by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.[5]

In the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences rankings, SUT was ranked 5th in the Middle East.[6] It is in the top 251–275 universities in the world and 37th in Asia in the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[7][8] In the 2014 Times Higher Education top 100 for newer universities (less than 50 years old), SUT ranked 1st in the Middle East, 6th in Asia, and 27th in the world.[9] In 2023, according to US News, the world ranking of this university reached 598.[10][11]

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