Sharif University of Technology

Sharif University of Technology (SUT, Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی شریف, Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-e Sharif) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran, dedicated to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, with about 12,000 students and more than 700 faculty members as of 2020.谢里夫科技大学（波斯语全名 دانشگاه صنعتی شریف，简称 SUT）是位于伊朗德黑兰的一所公立研究型大学，专注科学、技术、工程与数学领域，截至 2020 年有约 12,000 名学生与 700 余名教师。

Established in 1966 as the Aryamehr University of Technology under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, it was renamed Sharif University of Technology after the 1979 revolution, and its main campus lies in the Tarasht district of western Tehran, near Azadi Square.该校于 1966 年在穆罕默德-礼萨·巴列维治下以阿里梅尔理工大学之名创办，1979 年革命后改称谢里夫科技大学，主校区位于德黑兰西部塔拉什特社区，毗邻阿扎迪广场。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 390th, it stands in the 451-500 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 578th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and it falls in the 901-1000 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex credits it with 47,820 works and 1,960,423 citations.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 390，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 451 至 500 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 578，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 901 至 1000 区间，OpenAlex 统计其成果 47,820 项、累计被引 1,960,423 次。

History

• The university was founded in 1966 as the Aryamehr University of Industry by Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, and in its first year it had 54 faculty members and 412 students who had been selected through a national examination.该校于 1966 年由穆罕默德·阿里·莫杰塔赫迪以阿里梅尔工业大学的名称创办，建校首年仅有 54 名教师与通过全国考试遴选的 412 名学生。

• Four departments were established at the outset, namely Electrical, Metallurgical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, reflecting the Shah's ambition to train engineers for industrial modernisation.建校之初设立电气、冶金、机械与化学工程四个系，反映出国王为工业现代化培养工程师的抱负。

• In 1972 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appointed Hossein Nasr as president of the university with the aim of modelling it on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while rooting it in Iranian culture.1972 年，穆罕默德-礼萨·巴列维任命赛义德·侯赛因·纳斯尔为校长，意在把学校办成麻省理工学院水准、又扎根伊朗文化的高等学府。

• In 1974 a new campus of the university was established in Isfahan, but it soon became independent as the Isfahan University of Technology, which retains a similar emblem to this day.1974 年，该校在伊斯法罕建立新校区，但该校区不久即独立为伊斯法罕理工大学，其校徽至今仍与本校颇为相似。

• In 1975 Majid Sharif Vaghefi, a leading member of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, was killed, and after the 1979 revolution the university was renamed in his honour.1975 年，伊朗人民圣战者组织重要成员马吉德·谢里夫-瓦盖菲遇刺身亡，1979 年革命后该校即为纪念他而更名。

• After the 1979 revolution the university was briefly called the Tehran University of Technology before taking the name Sharif University of Technology.1979 年革命后，该校曾短暂称为德黑兰科技大学，随后定名为谢里夫科技大学。

• During the Cultural Revolution of 1980 to 1983 Iranian universities were closed and reopened with revised curricula and admissions, a period that reshaped the institution's academic structure.1980 至 1983 年伊朗「文化革命」期间，全国大学停课，其后以修订的课程与招生制度复课，这一时期重塑了该校的学术架构。

• Between 1997 and 2003 student political life at Sharif was dominated by two blocs, the Basij students and the Association of Muslim Students, briefly called Anjoman, which backed opposing sides in national politics.1997 至 2003 年间，谢里夫的学生政治生活由两大阵营主导，即巴斯基学生与穆斯林学生协会（简称 Anjoman），二者在国家政治中支持对立的一方。

• In 2001 the Department of Chemical Engineering was renamed the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, reflecting the growing importance of the petroleum sector in its teaching and research.2001 年，化学工程系更名为化学与石油工程系，反映出石油产业在其教学与研究中的分量日益加重。

• In 2003 the Sharif Incubator was founded to provide offices and educational, consulting, marketing and networking services to emerging technology companies from the university.2003 年，谢里夫孵化器成立，为校内的新兴科技企业提供办公场所及教育、咨询、营销与联络等方面的服务。

• In 2005 the university established its International Campus on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, opening bachelor, master and doctoral programmes in engineering and a master's degree in management.2005 年，该校在波斯湾基什岛设立国际校区，开设工程类学士、硕士与博士项目，以及管理学硕士项目。

• In 2006 a serious controversy, involving physical confrontation, arose when Basij students attempted to bury the bodies of unknown martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War in the courtyard of the university mosque.2006 年，巴斯基学生试图将两伊战争无名烈士的遗体安葬于校内清真寺庭院，引发了一场伴有肢体冲突的严重争议。

• By 2019 the Sharif Incubator had served 330 technology units and housed more than 64 start-up companies, with a total floor area of over 5,000 square metres.至 2019 年，谢里夫孵化器已服务 330 家技术单位，入驻初创企业 64 家以上，孵化场地总面积超过 5,000 平方米。

• As of 2020 the university enrolled about 12,000 students and employed more than 700 faculty members across 16 main departments.截至 2020 年，该校在校生约 12,000 人，教师 700 余人，设有 16 个主要院系。

• By 2022 the university comprised 15 faculties with about 10,500 students, roughly half of them undergraduates, and about 700 doctoral candidates.至 2022 年，该校设有 15 个学院，在校生约 10,500 人，其中约半数为本科生，另有约 700 名博士生。

• During the Mahsa Amini protests of 2022 many Sharif students took part, and the state news agency IRNA reported that at least 37 students were arrested, most of them released shortly afterwards.2022 年「玛莎·阿米尼」抗议期间，众多谢里夫学生参与其中，伊朗国家通讯社 IRNA 报道称至少 37 名学生被捕，其中多数人不久后获释。

• Long before these events, in 1966 the founding cohort of 412 students had been chosen from the whole country through a rigorous competitive examination that set the pattern for later admissions.早在 1966 年，建校时的 412 名学生即经由严格的全国竞考从各地选拔，这一做法奠定了日后招生制度的模式。

• The university grew steadily from its four original engineering departments into a broad institution covering engineering, the basic sciences and the humanities, and it now offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees.该校从最初的四个工科院系稳步发展，成为涵盖工程、基础科学与人文社科的综合性院校，如今同时开设本科与研究生学位。

• Throughout its history the university has been closely tied to Iran's national entrance examination, the Konkur, and its intake has long been drawn from the highest national ranks.该校历史上始终与伊朗全国入学考试（Konkur）紧密相连，其生源长期取自全国名次最靠前的考生。

• Over the decades the university has also built up an extensive network of research centres and an incubator, and it was the birthplace of the Shahbal unmanned aerial vehicle developed by its researchers.数十年来，该校还建立起庞大的研究中心网络与孵化器，其研究人员开发的山巴勒（Shahbal）无人机也在此诞生。

Academics

• The university is organised into 15 main departments, comprising nine engineering departments, three science departments and three humanities departments.该校设有 15 个主要院系，包括九个工程院系、三个理学院系与三个人文社科院系。

• The engineering departments include Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, alongside Industrial, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.工程学院系包括材料科学与工程、化学与石油工程、石油工程、土木工程、计算机工程与电气工程，以及工业工程、机械工程与航空航天工程。

• The science departments are Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, and the humanities departments are Management and Economics, Languages and Linguistics, and the Philosophy of Science, the last admitting only graduate students.理学院系为化学、物理与数学，人文社科院系为管理与经济、语言与语言学，以及仅招研究生的科学哲学。

• The Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering alone has 35 full-time faculty members, 25 staff and more than 900 students, of whom 600 are undergraduates, 250 are master's students and 70 are doctoral students.仅化学与石油工程系就有 35 名全职教师、25 名职员与 900 余名学生，其中本科生 600 人、硕士生 250 人、博士生 70 人。

• The university operates 21 research centres, among them the Advanced Communications Research Institute, the Electronics Research Institute, the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and the Transportation Research Institute.该校设有 21 个研究中心，其中包括高级通信研究所、电子研究所、纳米科学与纳米技术研究所以及交通研究所。

• It also hosts a number of centres of excellence, spanning aerospace systems, biotechnology, discrete structures and computation, nanostructures, structural and earthquake engineering and information security and cryptography.该校还设有多个卓越中心，涵盖航空航天系统、生物技术、离散结构与计算、纳米结构、结构与地震工程，以及信息安全与密码学等领域。

• The Sharif Incubator, established in 2003, supports emerging companies with offices and advisory, advertising, marketing and networking services to lower the risk and cost of commercialisation.成立于 2003 年的谢里夫孵化器，为新兴企业提供办公场所与咨询、宣传、营销、联络等服务，以降低产品商业化的风险与成本。

• By 2019 the incubator had benefited 330 technology units and housed more than 64 start-up firms within a total area of over 5,000 square metres.至 2019 年，该孵化器已使 330 家技术单位受益，并在 5,000 多平方米的场地内容纳了 64 家以上初创企业。

• The university is funded by the government together with private donors, and its endowment has been estimated at about 25 million US dollars, while it earns the highest income from industry among Iranian universities.该校经费来自政府与私人捐赠，其捐赠基金估计约为 2,500 万美元，且其来自产业的收入在伊朗各大学中最高。

• Undergraduate admission is conducted primarily through the Konkur, the national university entrance examination, and is generally limited to students with the highest national ranks among hundreds of thousands of applicants.本科录取主要通过全国大学入学考试 Konkur 进行，通常只招收在数十万考生中全国名次最靠前的学生。

• Admission is limited to roughly the top 800 of the 500,000 students who pass the national examination each year, and in the 2021 Konkur 98 of the top 100 examinees chose Sharif.每年约有 500,000 人通过全国考试，录取名额大致限于其中的前 800 名，2021 年 Konkur 考试全国前 100 名中有 98 人选择了谢里夫。

• The International Campus on Kish Island is organised into two faculties, the Faculty of Engineering and Science and the Faculty of Management, and admits students for bachelor, master and doctoral degrees.基什岛国际校区下设工程与科学学院及管理学院两院，招收学士、硕士与博士各层次学生。

• The student body is drawn from all 31 provinces of Iran, and the roughly 6,000 undergraduate and 4,700 graduate students make Sharif one of the most selective institutions in the country.该校学生来自伊朗全部 31 个省份，约 6,000 名本科生与 4,700 名研究生使其成为全国最难考入的高校之一。

• Research across the university is supported by institutes and laboratories in telecommunications, electronics, nanotechnology, transportation, energy and industrial policy, many of them funded through industry partnerships.该校科研由通信、电子、纳米技术、交通、能源与产业政策等研究所和实验室支撑，其中许多依靠产业合作获得经费。

• The university's graduates are known for their strength in engineering and the sciences, and its faculty have published widely in electrical engineering, computer science, physics and mathematics.该校毕业生以工程与科学实力著称，其教师在电气工程、计算机科学、物理与数学领域发表了大量成果。

• Researchers at the university developed the Shahbal unmanned aerial vehicle, and Sharif also gives its name to the Iranian Machine Design Competition, a national contest for engineering students.该校研究人员开发了山巴勒（Shahbal）无人飞行器，谢里夫之名还见于面向全国工科学生的「伊朗机械设计竞赛」。

Campus

• The main campus is located in the Tarasht neighbourhood of western Tehran, close to Azadi Square and the Azadi Tower, which is the symbol of the city and one of its main transport hubs.主校区位于德黑兰西部的塔拉什特社区，靠近阿扎迪广场与阿扎迪塔，后者是德黑兰的地标与主要交通枢纽之一。

• The Avicenna Building, named after the 9th-century Persian scholar Ibn Sina, serves as the main teaching building of the campus.以 9 世纪波斯学者伊本·西那命名的阿维森纳大楼，是校园的主要教学楼。

• The Jaber ibn Hayyan Building honours the 8th-century Persian alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, and the Abu Rayhan Biruni Building, named after the 11th-century scholar, houses mathematics and industrial engineering.贾比尔·伊本·哈扬大楼纪念 8 世纪波斯炼金术士贾比尔·伊本·哈扬，而以 11 世纪学者命名的阿布·拉伊汗·比鲁尼大楼则是数学与工业工程系所在。

• The campus also contains a central library, a mosque, student and staff dining halls and a publishing house, with the library serving as the main study space for students.校园内还设有中央图书馆、清真寺、师生餐厅与出版社，其中图书馆是学生的主要学习场所。

• Sport facilities on the main campus include a first and a second gymnasium together with outdoor courts for basketball, volleyball and tennis, supporting the university's physical education programme.主校区的体育设施包括第一与第二体育馆，以及篮球、排球与网球等室外场地，支撑全校体育课程。

• The International Campus occupies its own site on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, established in 2005 and organised around the Faculty of Engineering and Science and the Faculty of Management.国际校区位于波斯湾基什岛上的独立园区，成立于 2005 年，围绕工程与科学学院及管理学院组建。

• The Kish campus comprises a central building, a Faculty of Engineering and Science block, laboratory buildings and a language centre building, all within a short distance of the island's free-trade zone.基什校区由中央大厦、工程与科学学院楼、实验楼与语言中心大楼组成，均距该岛的自由贸易区不远。

• The main campus lies near the Azadi transport interchange, giving students easy access to the metro, bus terminals and the commercial heart of the capital.主校区邻近阿扎迪交通枢纽，学生可便捷抵达地铁、长途客运站与首都的商业中心地带。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Sharif University of Technology is placed 390th, and it has long been the highest ranked university in Iran.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，谢里夫科技大学位列第 390，长期是伊朗排名最高的大学。

• It stands in the 451-500 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, after occupying the 351-400 band in the 2026 edition of the same table.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 451 至 500 区间，此前在 2026 年同一榜单中处于 351 至 400 区间。

• It is placed 578th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and in the 901-1000 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 578，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 901 至 1000 区间。

• In the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities it stood in the 501-600 band and ranked first in Iran, while by 2022 its civil engineering was in the world's top 100.在 2020 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 501 至 600 区间且居伊朗首位，至 2022 年其土木工程已跻身世界前 100。

• By the QS ranking of 2023 it ranked first in Iran and 380th in the world, with its petroleum engineering programme placed 23rd worldwide.在 2023 年 QS 排名中，该校居伊朗第一、世界第 380 位，其石油工程项目位列全球第 23。

• In the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stood in the 401-500 band, fourth in Iran and 70th in Asia, and in 2016 it was placed 100th among the world's young universities.在 2019 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列 401 至 500 区间、伊朗第 4、亚洲第 70，2016 年又在全球年轻大学排名中位列第 100。

• In the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities by subjects, its civil engineering stood in the world's top 100, mechanical engineering in the top 150 and water resources and metallurgical engineering in the top 200.在 2022 年世界大学学术排名学科榜中，其土木工程位列世界前 100，机械工程位列前 150，水资源与冶金工程位列前 200。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 47,820 research works attracting 1,960,423 citations, a record that reflects its emphasis on engineering and applied science.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出研究成果 47,820 项、累计被引 1,960,423 次，这一记录反映出其对工程与应用科学的侧重。

• The university earns the highest income from industry of any institution in Iran, a measure of how closely its research is tied to the country's industrial sector.该校来自产业的收入在伊朗各院校中最高，这一指标显示其研究与本国工业部门的紧密联系。

• In the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking the university was placed 598th in the world, another sign of its standing among Iranian universities.在 2022 至 2023 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 598，这也是其在国内高校中地位的又一佐证。

Student life

• The Sharif University of Technology Association, known as SUTA, is a non-profit organisation registered in the state of California in the United States, with many chapters and affiliates around the world.谢里夫科技大学协会（简称 SUTA）是注册于美国加利福尼亚州的非营利组织，在全球设有多个分会与联络机构。

• SUTA works to strengthen professional, academic and social ties among its members and to maintain links between alumni living outside Iran and the university.SUTA 致力于加强会员之间的专业、学术与社会联系，并维系旅居海外的校友与母校之间的纽带。

• Student political life at Sharif has long been active, and between 1997 and 2003 the main blocs were Basij students and the Association of Muslim Students, which often clashed over national politics.谢里夫的学生政治生活历来活跃，1997 至 2003 年间主要以巴斯基学生与穆斯林学生协会两大阵营为主，二者常因国家政治而冲突。

• Free-speech tribunes on campus occasionally ended in heated debates between the two blocs, and in 2006 a confrontation followed an attempt to bury war martyrs in the university mosque courtyard.校园内的言论自由讲坛有时以两派激烈辩论收场，2006 年更因有人试图将战争烈士安葬于校内清真寺庭院而爆发对峙。

• During the Mahsa Amini protests of 2022 Sharif students were prominent, and state media reported that at least 37 were arrested before most were released.2022 年「玛莎·阿米尼」抗议期间，谢里夫学生表现突出，官方媒体称至少 37 人被捕，其后多数获释。

• The campus mosque, the central library and the two gymnasiums are the main social and recreational anchors of student life, alongside the university's sports competitions and engineering contests.校内清真寺、中央图书馆与两座体育馆是学生生活主要的社交与休闲场所，此外还有各类体育比赛与工程竞赛。

• Every year the university draws its students from all 31 provinces of Iran through the Konkur, and the shared experience of that fierce competition shapes a strong campus culture of academic rivalry.该校每年通过 Konkur 从伊朗全部 31 个省份招收学生，这场激烈竞考的共同经历塑造了浓厚的学业竞争文化。

Notable people

• Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, an educator who headed the institution at its founding in 1966, is regarded as the founder of the university and shaped its early engineering curriculum.穆罕默德·阿里·莫杰塔赫迪是该校 1966 年创办时期的负责人，被视为学校的创办人，并奠定了早期工程课程的基础。

• Hossein Nasr, the philosopher appointed president in 1972, sought to model the university on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while grounding it in Iranian culture.1972 年获任命为校长的哲学家赛义德·侯赛因·纳斯尔，力图将学校办成麻省理工学院式的学府，同时使之扎根于伊朗文化。

• Maryam Mirzakhani, a mathematics alumna who became a professor at Stanford University, was in 2014 the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, the highest honour in mathematics.数学专业校友玛丽安·米尔札哈尼后来成为斯坦福大学教授，并于 2014 年成为首位获得数学界最高荣誉「菲尔兹奖」的女性。

• Omid Kokabee, an alumnus in applied physics and mechanics, was arrested while visiting Iran and sentenced to ten years in prison, drawing international calls for his release.应用物理与力学专业校友奥米德·科卡比在回伊朗探亲时被捕并被判十年监禁，引发国际社会要求释放他的呼声。

• Mohammad-Ali Najafi, who ranked first in the national university entrance examination and enrolled at Sharif, became a mathematician, a professor at the university and mayor of Tehran.在全国大学入学考试中名列第一并考入谢里夫的穆罕默德-阿里·纳杰菲，后来成为数学家、该校教授以及德黑兰市长。

• Eshaq Jahangiri, an alumnus, served as Iran's Minister of Industries and Mines and later as First Vice President of the country.校友艾沙格·贾汉基里曾任伊朗工业和矿业部长，后任该国第一副总统。

• Abbas Mokhtaj, an alumnus of the university, rose to become commander of the Iranian Navy, one of the senior military posts in the country.该校校友阿巴斯·莫赫塔杰后升任伊朗海军司令，跻身该国高级军职之列。

• Ali Daei, a graduate, was a forward for the Iran national football team and is remembered as one of the most prolific goalscorers in the history of international football.毕业生阿里·代伊曾担任伊朗国家男子足球队前锋，被公认为国际足球史上进球最多的射手之一。

• Akbar Torkan, among the university's alumni in business, became managing director of the Pars Oil and Gas Company.该校商界校友阿克巴·托尔坎出任帕尔斯石油与天然气公司总经理。

• Manouchehr Manteghi, another alumnus in industry, served as managing director of Iran Khodro, the country's largest automobile manufacturer.另一位工业界校友曼诺切赫尔·曼特吉曾出任伊朗最大汽车制造商「霍德罗」的总经理。

• Salman Avestimehr, a Sharif graduate, became a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Stanford University in the United States.谢里夫毕业生萨尔曼·阿维斯特梅尔后来成为美国斯坦福大学电气与计算机工程系教授。

• Azita Emami, an alumna, became a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, working on integrated circuits and biomedical devices.校友阿齐塔·埃马米后来成为加州理工学院电气工程系教授，从事集成电路与生物医学器件研究。