Sharif University of Technology

Sharif University of Technology is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's leading institution for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. The international campus of the university is located in Kish Island, Persian Gulf.

Established in 1966 under the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, it was formerly named the Aryamehr University of Technology and for a short period after the 1979 revolution, the university was called Tehran University of Technology. Following the revolution, the university was named after Majid Sharif Vaghefi.