Pahlavi EraSociety
The Rise of the Classroom
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Education's share of government spending rose from 4% in 1926 to 14.1% in 1976. The University of Tehran opened with 1,043 students in 1935; by 1973 higher-education enrolment topped 115,000.
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Iran's first modern college, Dar ul-Funun, opened in Tehran in 1851 under the reformer Amir Kabir, more than eight decades before the University of Tehran.
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In 1966 Tehran opened the Aryamehr University of Technology, today's Sharif University of Technology, one of Iran's leading engineering schools.
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