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Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Iran

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Historical Development of Iranian Higher Education

Iran, also called Persia and officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), is a country in Western Asia with over 87 million inhabitants. Iran is the world’s 18th most populous country and the second largest country in the Middle East. Iran is home to one of the world’s oldest continuous major civilizations. The Academy of Gondishapur (Gondishapur University) established by Shapur I (Shapur the Great, 240/42–270/72 BC) was the first historical Iranian university that offered education and training in medicine, philosophy, science (chemistry and biology), and theology. Early Islamic universities in Iran (1037–1194) called the Nizamiyyah were a group of the medieval institutions of higher education established by Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk in the eleventh century in Iran. Nizamiyyah universities mainly offered education in religious jurisprudence.

The first modern Iranian university called Dar ul-Funun (polytechnic) established in...

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  1. Department of Educational Administration and Planning, College of Education, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Fars, Iran

    P. Saketi

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  1. CIPES - Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies and Faculty of Economics - U., Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Nuno Teixeira

  2. Department of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Jung Cheol Shin

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    Goolam Mohamedbhai

  2. Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

    Patricio Langa

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Saketi, P. (2020). Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Iran. In: Teixeira, P.N., Shin, J.C. (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8905-9_613

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