The Petroleum University of Technology ( fa, دانشگاه صنعت نفت) is an Iranian

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university funded by the Ministry of Petroleum particularly by its main company, the

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. It was founded in 1939 in

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in response to the increasing industrialization of Iran oil company, and is officially the second oldest university in Iran after

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and based on The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), this university has the seventh worldwide rank in oil and gas sector and petroleum engineering. According to

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for petroleum engineering programs, PUT has not been placed among the top 100 universities. It offers

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programs for upstream and downstream oil and gas industry such as petroleum engineering,

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, and

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. It has four campuses in

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and Mahmudabad and some research centers.

History

The name of the university has been changed several times. The university was established in 1939 in

as Abadan Technical School. The academic program comprised working and studying in sequence. The students (if employed) spent two-fifths of the academic program in the school and three-fifths in the Abadan Refinery ( fa, پالايشگاه آبادان ''Pālāyeshgāh-e Ābādān'') as trainees. In 1956, the new curriculum was prepared by Lafayette College of Pennsylvania for two years of pre engineering and four years of general engineering. The curriculum was approved by National Iranian Oil Company and 79 students out of several thousand applicants were selected based on written test and interview. The name was changed to Abadan Institute of Technology (AIT). By then, the educational program focused on the general engineering major; admissions were given to fourth grade high school students after passing an entry test and interviews. The last admissions of the program were granted in 1961 and the first students graduated in 1962. In 1962, the new program was introduced that offered

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degrees in petroleum engineering, economic and administrative sciences and accounting. The programs was still internship-orientated. After the outbreak of the

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, the university was relocated. It was first moved to

Gachsaran Dogonbadan ( fa, دوگنبدان, ; also Romanized as Do Gonbadān, Dow Gonbadān, and Du Gunbadān; also known as Gachsaran ( fa, گچساران), also Romanized as Gachsārān) is a city and the capital of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer ...

in 1981. The universities all over the country reopened in December 1982 and the university moved to the current location of Ahwaz Faculty of Petroleum in

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. After the

, in 1989, the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education granted permission to found the Petroleum University of Technology. All the educational institutions of the Ministry of Petroleum are supervised by the university. Ministry of Petroleum, then founded the Abadan Shahid Tondghuyan Faculty of Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering or Abadan Faculty of Petroleum in February 1992 in the location of the former Abadan Institute of Technology and The Research Center of Petroleum University of Technology in the campus of the current Ahwaz Faculty of Petroleum in 1993.

Today

As of 2015, the Petroleum University of Technology consists of four faculties in cities that offer 13

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, 11 graduate and three

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programs: * Ahvaz Faculty of Petroleum (or PUT Ahvaz), * Abadan Faculty of Petroleum (or PUT Abadan), * Tehran Faculty of Petroleum (

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) (or PUT Tehran), * Mahmudabad Faculty of Marine Sciences (or PUT Mahmudabad). The university has four research centers: * Ahvaz Faculty of Petroleum Research Center; * Abadan Faculty of Petroleum Research Center; * Tehran Faculty of Petroleum Research Center and, * Mahmudabad Faculty of Marine Sciences Offshore Oil & Gas Industries Research Center. PUT programs:

Roles and goals

The priorities of the PUT are maintaining the resources of oil and gas in the country and training manpower for the development and exploitation of these resources.

Students

According to the Iranian university entrance exam (Konkoor), students ranked between 2000 and 4000 usually enter PUT. The university has sent some of its students to the

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and

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(IFP). A student has won the bronze medal of the ninth South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students (SEEMOUS 2015) that took place in

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, from March 3–8, 2015.

Notable alumni

Professor Abbas Firoozabadi Dr. Hojatollah Ghanimi Fard (and Ex Vice Minister for Ministry of Petroleum and Ex Vice Minister of Ministry of Commerce)

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