List of universities in Iran

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This is a list of universities in Iran.

Iran had 2,183 universities in 2022 and started a program to merge them and reduce the number down to 400 universities. [1]

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List of universities

List of universities by province

These are grouped according to their corresponding province, 31 provinces in all.

Alborz Province

Ardabil Province

East Azerbaijan

West Azerbaijan

Bushehr Province

Chahar Mahaal va Bakhtiari

Fars

Gilan

Golestan

Hamedan

Hormozgan

Ilam

Isfahan

Kerman

Kermanshah

Khorasan, North

Khorasan, Razavi

Khorasan, South

Khuzestan

Kohkiluyeh va Buyer Ahmad

Kurdistan

Lorestan

Markazi

Mazandaran

Qazvin

Qom

Semnan

Sistan And Baluchistan

Tehran

See also detailed list of: List of universities in Tehran Province .

Parsian Virtual University, Tehran [ permanent dead link ]

Yazd

Zanjan

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