Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

Babol Noshirvani University of Technology was established in 1970 by Seyed Hossein Fallah Noshirvani, who dedicated the complex to the people of Babol as a public engineering school. However, during the early years, the complex served primarily as a training center for technical instructors who would teach at community colleges in fields related to engineering. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the school merged with the University of Mazandaran (UMZ) to become a College of Engineering and changed its curriculum to offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering. In 2005, following public demand and supported by donations from people of Babol, the institution started a process of independence from UMZ, during which it was temporarily referred to as “Noshirvani Technical and Education Complex”. Since March 2008, BNUT has been an independent public university under the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology.[3]

According to Times higher education world university ranking 2018, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology has been ranked among the best in Iran and 301–350th in the world. Moreover, it has been ranked 201–250th in the engineering category.[7] The Times Higher Education Young University Rankings (aged 50 years or under) has announced Babol Noshirvani University of Technology as the 55th young university of the world.[8]

According to ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019, BNUT has been ranked 101–150 among world universities in Mechanical Engineering[9] and also 201–300 in Chemical Engineering.[10]

In 2018, SciVisions University Ranking, Noshirvani University of Technology took 2nd place among all Iranian universities after University of Tehran.[11]

Round University Ranking (RUR) has ranked Babol Noshirvani University of Technology as the 6th university of Iran and 506th among world universities in 2018.[12]

In 2018 ShanghaiRanking's ranking BNUT stands as the 7th university of Iran.[13]

In 2019, the U.S. News & World Report ranked BNUT Engineering Sciences 231st among world universities.[14]

Babol Noshirvani University of Technology stands as the 11th university of the country and 584th among world universities according to 2016 SCImago institutions rankings.[15]

Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science announces a list of world's most effective universities every year. BNUT has been ranked as the 6th top university of technology in the country among top 1% universities of the world in June 2015.[16]

Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) has announced a list of most effective universities of Iran based on scientific diplomacy in 2012–2014. Babol Noshirvani university of technology has been ranked 3rd among all the technical universities of Iran in such field after Isfahan university of technology and Sharif university of technology.[17]

Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) has published the Ranking Universities and research Centers of Iran 2014–15, Babol Noshirvani university of technology has been ranked 6th among all technical universities of Iran after Amirkabir University of Technology, Sharif University of Technology, Iran University of Science and Technology, Isfahan University of Technology and khaje nasir toosi.[18]

University Administration Building

Chancellor: Javad Vaseqi Amiri, Professor of Civil Engineering, since 2014

• Vice-Chancellor for University: Kurosh Sedighi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Chancellor of International Campus: Mousa Farhadi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Vice-Chancellor for Education: Mohammad Bakhshi Jooybari, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Vice-Chancellor for Research and Technology: Majid Taghizadeh, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
• Vice-Chancellor for Administrative and Financial: Sayyed Hashem Rasouli, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• Vice-Chancellor for Student: Mohammad Reza Hassanzadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
• Vice-Chancellor for Cultural and Social: Abolfazl Ranjbar Noei, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Major faculties of the university:[19]

• Head of Institute: Prof. Mohsen Jahanshahi
• Researchers: Six professors, seven associate professors, eight assistant professors and 20 postgruadute students
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• In 2019, the Nanotechnology Research Institute was chosen as the excellence center of nanotechnology in the water and Dr. Mohsen Jahanshahi was elected chairman of the excellence center.[23]

Student activist Sayed Ziaoddin Nabavi attended the university as an engineering student before being banned from higher education for his anti-government political activities.[24] Along with other banned students, he formed the Council to Defend the Right to Education to defend their rights to continue attending university. Following his participation in "Green Revolution" protests following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed reelection, Sayed Ziaoddin Nabavi was arrested along with his wife,[25] and he is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence on charges of "creating unease in the public mind".[26]

• Higher education in Iran

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