Mazandaran University of science and technology
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Mazandaran University of Science and Technology (MUST) is a university in Babol
Babol
Babol is a city in and the capital of Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 198,636, in 55,943 families....

, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

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MUST situated in the city of Babol
Babol
Babol is a city in and the capital of Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 198,636, in 55,943 families....

 in the province of Mazandaran (North of Iran) 15 km away from Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea
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, Blessed with a temperate climate, a plethora of colorful blossoms and removed from the turmoils and upheavals associated with big cities, Babol provides a suitable environment for academic activities.

MUST was established in 1992 as the first private university under the accreditation of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran)
Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran)
The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology is the government ministry of science, research and technology in the Islamic Republic of Iran...

 by members of its founder committee;
Mr. Morteza Haji, Mr. Mirmehdi Seyyedesfahani, Mr. Ahmad Nourian, Mr. Abbasali Soleimani, Mr. Hassan Asgarinejhad, Mr. Mohsen Nariman, Mr. Hossein Ramzanianpur, Mr. Alireza Saffarian and Mr. Yusef Asgarinejhad


It offers degrees in Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...

, Computer Engineering
Computer engineering
Computer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...

, Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

, Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

, Civil Engineering
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

 and other subjects, as well as MBA. In recent years, MUST has scaled such enviable heights to become a conglomeration of different provinces and cultures.

University Goals

The university states its present goals to be:
  • Improvement in the quality of higher education
    Higher education
    Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...

  • Responding to the great enthusiasm of youth for higher education.
  • Providing an environment for theoretical and practical research.

Future Goals

It states its future goals to be:
  • Improvement in cooperating with foreign universities
  • Making use of foreign teachers
  • Exchanging students and teachers in different degree subjects with foreign universities.

Cooperation

Masters degree and PhD
PHD
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 courses are taught in English. The university has established cooperation with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT
Indian Institutes of Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology are a group of autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institutes of higher education. The IITs are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as “institutions of national importance”, and lays down their powers, duties,...

) of India
India
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in offering MBAs and PhDs in industrial engineering.
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