History of the University of Tehran

Adolphe Perney (a French advisor of the Ministry) was appointed as dean, and the faculty was directed by a cadre of capable Iranian and Western academics such as Dehkhoda, Gild Brand (from Russia), Sayyed Mohammad Taddayon (a Minister), Julian Lafin (a Frenchman), and Mirza Javad Khan Ameri, among many others.

Thus allocating an initial budget of 250,000 Tomans, the Ministry of Education was authorized to find a suitable land for the establishment of the university and take necessary measures to construct the building as soon as possible.

Ali Asghar Hekmat in collaboration and consultation with Andre Godard, a French skillful architect – who was serving the Ministry of Education as an engineer, promptly began looking for a suitable location for the university grounds.

This beautiful garden, full of orchards was founded in the early 1900s during the final years of Nasir ad- Din Shah, by the order of Prince Jalal ad-dawlah.

The influences of early 20th century modernist architecture are today readily visible on the main campus grounds of the university.

The Amir-abad (North Karegar) campus was added in 1945 after American troops left the property as World War II was coming to an end.

[2] In 1954, the "Institute of Business Administration" (Mo'assaseh-ye olum-e edari) was established with the help of the University of Southern California, directed by Harry Marlow of USC, offering master's and PhD degrees.

And in 1971, construction of a new building designed by Abdolaziz Farmanfarmayan was completed, which housed the university's main central library which today holds nearly 700,000 volumes, a large collection of Persian manuscripts, many of them unique, as well as 1800 periodicals from all over the world.