Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) (Persian: دانشگاه تحصیلات تکمیلی علوم پایه زنجان, Daneshgah-e Tehesilât-e Tekimili-ye Olum-e Paih-e Zanjaan) also known as Zanjan Graduate University of Basic Sciences is a public advanced research center and university in Zanjan, Iran founded in 1991 by Prof. Yousef Sobouti.

The goal of establishing IASBS was to provide a leading research-based institute in advanced science topics for both researchers and students in Iran.

Zanjan city in Iranian Azerbaijan region, 298 km to the north-west of Tehran, was chosen for the Institute.

In this program students directly proceed to their PhD thesis after completing their undergraduate and graduate courses, thereby skipping the M.Sc.

The active research groups of the Department are in the fields of Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Graph theory, Computer Science and Financial Mathematics.

[5] The Department of Chemistry at the IASBS started its formal activities in fall 1999 with five Master’s students and five faculty members, seven years after the opening of the Institute.

Department of Earth Sciences is currently active in the fields of Geophysics, Tectonics, Petrology and Hydrology and Hydrogeology.

The program, a first attempt at the national level, will train these selected groups of students over a period of seven years, granting them a PhD degree in physics.

In this program students directly proceed to their PhD thesis after completing their undergraduate and graduate courses, thereby skipping the M.Sc.

IASBS also offers a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering which is the only undergraduate program in the institute.

The institute also used to run a joint undergraduate program in Information Technology with Heriot-Watt University of the United Kingdom.