and members of the scientific board of Aryamehr University of Technology in 1967. The university was founded in 1966 with the name
Aryamehr University of Industry by
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi. At that time, there were 54 faculty members and a total of 412 students who were selected by national examination. Four departments were established: Electrical, Metallurgical, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering. In 1972,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appointed
Hossein Nasr as president of the university with the goal of modeling the school based on the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but with roots in Iranian culture. In 1974 a new campus of the university was established in
Isfahan. But later, that campus became an independent university, named
Isfahan University of Technology (IUT). Following
the revolution, the university was named after
Majid Sharif Vaghefi, who was one of the
People's Mujahedin of Iran group's leaders who was killed by the members of a splinter group (later renamed to Peykar Organization) who had recently converted from Islam to Marxism and were adamant to forcefully change the Mujahedin's organization's ideology to Marxism. As of 2020, the university has about 12,000 students and over 700 faculty members in 16 main departments. During the
Mahsa Amini protests in 2022, many students participated, with video footage of the protest and subsequent response by Iranian security forces published first to social media and then by major news organizations. Iranian state news agency
IRNA reported that at least 37 students were arrested and most were released shortly afterwards. On 6 April 2026, in the
2026 Iran war, the campus was attacked by the US and Israel. ==Campuses==