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University of Tehran History

The University of Tehran is one of the oldest universities which started off as a religious school and has now become one of the top universities in Iran. The university was inaugurated by Ali Asghar Hekmat, the Minister of Science in the year 1934 as Dar-ol-Fonoon College – an engineering school. Presently there are more than 35,000 students enrolled in the university.