Zohreh Samadi

Tarbiat Modares University

Tarbiat Modares University is an exclusively graduate university with its main campus in Tehran, Iran. It was founded in 1982 and is consistently ranked among top universities in Iran. Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) is the only exclusively graduate university in Iran and was founded to train university professors. Admission to the university is through national level university exams (i.e. Concours) and in most programs is limited to top performers. TMU includes 13 faculties: Agriculture, Arts & Architecture, Basic Sciences, Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Engineering, Humanities, Management & Economics, Mathematical Sciences, Natural Resources & Marine Sciences and Medical Sciences. It is the only university in Iran that offers a master program for Medical Biotechnology and only 6-9 students are admitted annually according on their performance in National Graduate Studies Entrance Exam. The university is the first and the only one in Tehran and one of the three in Iran, in which the M.Sc. degree in Nanotechnology Engineering is offered.