Evin is a neighbourhood in the north of Tehran .
5-461: The district consists of an old section filled with orchards and gardens of old houses and a new section with high rises and skyscrapers. It is adjacent to Shahid Beheshti University campus. It is notorious for the nearby Evin Prison , a detention center famous for atrocities committed against political prisoners, both in the pre-1979 period and in the post-revolutionary period. It is minutes away from
10-508: The Darakeh hiking trail. Hiking is a national pastime in Iran, and this trail thus brings many tourists to the area. This Tehran County location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Shahid Beheshti University Shahid Beheshti University ( SBU ) ( Persian : دانشگاه شهید بهشتی , romanized : Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti ), originally founded as
15-621: The Melli University (National University of Iran) ( Persian : دانشگاه ملی , romanized : Dāneshgāh-e Melli ), is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers programs at Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. levels. Shahid Behesti University was founded in 1959 by Ali Sheikholislam . The university was planned to be devoted to graduate studies. At its opening, it consisted of two schools: Architecture and Urban Planning, and Banking and Economics, with 174 students. Soon
20-629: The School of Literature and Foreign Languages began in downtown Tehran. The first graduate academic degree program was the Master's course in the School of Architecture, launched in 1961. In 1962, a new main campus was built in Evin, a suburb in the north of Tehran. By 1978 other faculties became active i.e.the faculties of Literature and Human Sciences, Basic Sciences, Law, Earth Sciences, Statistics and Informatics and Education and Psychology. In an academic reform in 1986,
25-595: The medical schools were separated from the main universities and became Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences working under the purview of the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education. The first PhD course was offered in the School of Economics in 1991. Shahid Beheshti University has been sanctioned by governments in the EU, US, Australia, Canada, and Switzerland for their links to Iran's nuclear program . This restricts business and financial transactions with
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