The College of Science has five schools and students study at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels there.

Courses taught at the Dar ul-Funun included physics, chemistry, natural sciences, pharmacy, and mining, to which arithmetic, geometry, geography, and painting were gradually added.

Mahmoud Hessabi and Gholam Hossein Rahnama[6][7] were the two Iranian professors in this college.

[4][5][8] In 1934, the proposal to establish the University of Tehran, consisting of six faculties of medicine, law, natural sciences, technology, theology and teachers' colleges, was given to the then minister Ali-Asghar Hekmat by Dr. Hesabi, Dr. Sediq and Monsieur Batliani and was approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the same year.

Of course, in 1955, the Higher Teachers' College was separated from the faculties of literature and science and began another period of its activity.

The College of Science's library has the following specifications:[17][18] The Central Laboratory includes a set of important equipment for qualitative and quantitative examination of materials, which has been established with the aim of providing research services to students and faculty members of the University of Tehran and other scientific, research and industrial centers of the country.

The objectives of the Central Laboratory are listed below:[19][20] The Journal of Science of the University of Tehran was established in 1968 and its first issue was published in the same year.

English language magazine Geopersia: This journal is published twice a year by the School of Geology, Campus of Sciences, University of Tehran and has scientific research validity.