• Founded: 1934 (In modern Phase)* 
• Size and Area of University: Total areas of campuses: 554,647 Square Meter 
• Number of Campuses: 8
  • Main Campus: Enqelab Ave.
  • Off Campuses:
    

    Abouraihan
    Agriculture and Natural Resources
    Caspian & Fouman Campus
    Qom
    Alborz International Campus
    Aras International Campus
    Kish International Campus
    

• Educational Departments: 126
• Research Centers: 45
• Number of Labs: 530
• Number of Scientific Journals: 73 
• Membership in International Associations/Unions: IAU, FUIW, AUAP, IASPO, IUHPS, ISC, COSPAR, IGU, IOBIC, GEM, WTO, IUGG, IFLA, ICODE,…
• Number of International Agreements/MOU's: 290

Faculty Statistics:

• Faculty Members (Total): 1,785
• Faculty Members by Rank:

  Professor: 287
  Associate Professors: 511
  Assistant Professors: 832
  Lecturers: 73
  Training Instructors: 6
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  Adjunct Professors: 76

Students Statistics:

• Number of Students:

  Ph.D. Students: 3,908
  Professional Doctorate Degree: 510
  Master's Students: 13,942
  Bachelor's Students: 15,312
  Number of students residing in University Dormitories: 10,000
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  Total: 33,672

Number of administrative staff:

• Formal: 1,771
• Contract-based: 672
• Service or Specified Period Contract: 1189
• Other types: 47
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• Total: 3,679

University Ranking:

• QS (2011): 501-550
• THES (2010): 401-500
• Shanghai Jiao University Ranking (2011): 301-400
• Webometric  Ranking (July 2012): 644
• SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR World Report 2012): 259
• University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) (2011): 193

• No. of ISI Web of Science Indexed Papers (As of March 2011): 10,000
• No. of ISI Web of Science Indexed Papers (As indexed by February 2011): 16,809
• No. of Scopus Indexed Papers ( As of February 2011): 14,940
• No. of Scopus Indexed Papers in 2010: 2,607
• ISI (Since 1970): 11,732 papers
• Average Citation: 4.45
• H-Index: 53
• Total Citation to Papers of University: 52,208

Library Statistics:

• Members: 65,000
• Daily users: Over 5,000
• Number of manuscripts: 17,000 Persian, Arabic and Turkish
• Number of Persian newspapers titles: 934
• Number of Journals in English: 1,500
• Number of historical documents: 60,000
• Number of lithography-printed books: 9,000
• Number of printed journals: 25,000

Graduates in 2011:

• Ph.D. Students: 475
• Professional Doctorate Degree: 45
• Master's Students: 3,540
• Bachelor's Students: 3,072
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• Total: 7,132

Number of Sport, Artistic and Atheletic Medals in International Competitions: 70