University of Tehran

The University of Tehran is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Persian speakers call it Daneshgah-e Tehran, and it is nicknamed the Mother University. Several of its departments were absorbed from the Dar al-Funun, established in 1851, and the Tehran School of Political Sciences, established in 1899. The plan for the present university began in 1931, and it was officially inaugurated in 1934. It opened to women in 1935. Its main campus lies in the central part of the city, and entry to its undergraduate and graduate programs is limited to the top one percent of students who pass the national entrance examination.