Facts and Figures
Last Update: (Aug, 2020)
- History
- Basic Statistics
- Faculty Members
- Enrolled Students
- Staff
- Global Subject/Faculty Rankings
- Academic Publications
- Library Statistics
- Graduates
History
- Iran’s leading modern university
- Some parts of the university were established at the time of Amirkabir, the then prime minister of the Qajar dynasty, within the framework of Darul-Funun (Polytechnic) School in 1851.
- University of Tehran was officially ratified by the Iranian parliament in 1934.
- A comprehensive university offering a variety of disciplines.
- Over 1,000,000 square meters of educational space
Basic Statistics:
- Eight Campuses in 8 cities
- Central campus:
- In the heart of Tehran Metropolis
- Other campuses:
- Fouman (Fouman Campus)
- Jolfa (Aras International Campus)
- Karaj (Agriculture and Natural Resources, Alborz International Campus)
- Kish (Kish International Campus)
- Pakdasht (Abouraihan)
- Qom (Farabi)
- Rezvanshahr (Caspian Campus)
- Central campus:
- Number of Colleges: 9
- Number of Faculties/Schools: 48
- Educational Departments: 160
- Research Centers: 55+
- Laboratories: 550+
- Scientific Journals: 137
- Membership in International Associations/Unions: more than 25 (i.e. IAU, FUIW, AUAP, IASPO, IUHPS, ISC, COSPAR, IGU, IOBIC, GEM, WTO, IUGG, IFLA, ICODE,…)
- International Agreements/MoU's: 580+
- UT was the President of Iran and Russian Top Universities Summit in 2016
- President of University of Tehran as the First Vice President of AUAP (at present)
Faculty Members (2019):
- Total Academic Staff: 2094
- International Academic Staff: 55
Enrolled Students (2019):
- Total: 43992
- Ph.D. Students: 9214
- Professional Doctorate Degree: 296
- Master's Students: 18135
- Bachelor's Students: 16347
- Capacity of University Dormitories in the city of Tehran: 12,000 residents
International Students (2019):
- Full Time Degree Seeking Students: 744
- Ph.D. Students: 311
- Master's Students: 251
- Bachelor's Students: 182
- Visiting and Non-Degree Seeking Students: 1800+
- Total: 2898
Academic Publications (November 8, 2019):
- No. of Web of Science Indexed Documents (Indexes: SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, BKCI-S, BKCI-SSH, CCR-EXPANDED, IC., ESCI; Since 1972): 46,024
- No. of Scopus Indexed Documents (Since 1953): 55,139
- No. of WoS 2018 Indexed Documents: 4,541
- No. of Scopus 2018 Indexed Documents: 5,132
- Citations per Paper (ESI; September 26, 2019): 9.48
- H-Index (WoS): 135
- H-Index (Scopus): 150
- International Collaborations: ~26% of WoS Indexed Documents, 135 Collaborating Countries
Library Statistics:
- Number of Central & Specialized Libraries of Colleges/Faculties: 56
- Members: 75,000
- Daily users: Over 2,000
- 1.5+ millions books
- 300,000+ journals in 18,000 titles
- 60,000+ historically significant and unique documents
- 2,000+ historical maps
- 40,000+ historical photographs
- 3,000+ titles of lithography printed books
- 2,700+ Newspaper and magazine titles (since 1843)
- 18,000+ manuscripts
- 60,000+ electronic versions of theses and dissertations
- Seismic data (all records over 3 Richter in Iran since 1993)
2019Graduates:
- Total: 10487
- Ph.D. Students: 1254
- Professional Doctorate Degree: 48
- Master's Students: 5900
- Bachelor's Students: 3285