page_title: Petroleum University of Technology
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Petroleum University of Technology / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Abadan Petroleum University, belong to Iran Oil Company. established at 1939. It was one of the first universities in Iran.
context_page_description: The Petroleum University of Technology is a leading Iranian public university funded by the Ministry of Petroleum particularly by its main company, the NIOC. It was founded in 1939 in Abadan in response to the increasing industrialization of Iran oil company, and is officially the second oldest university in Iran after University of Tehran and based on The Center for World University Rankings, this university has the 7th worldwide rank in oil an gas sector and petroleum engineering. It offers B.Sc., M.S and Doctorate programs for upstream and downstream oil and gas industry such as petroleum engineering, chemical engineering, offshore engineering, instrumentation engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, accounting, and marine engineering.
  It has four campuses in Ahwaz, Abadan, Tehran and Mahmudabad and some research centers.
context_section_description: The name of the university has been changed several times. The university was established in 1939 in Abadan as Abadan Technical School. The academic program comprised working and studying in sequence. The students (if employed) spent two-fifth of the academic program in the school and three-fifth in the Abadan Refinery (Persian: 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 4th 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 B.S. degrees in petroleum engineering, economic and administrative sciences and accounting. The programs was still internship-orientated.
  After the outbreak of the War, the university was relocated. It was first moved to Gachsaran 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 Kut-e Abdollah, Karun County.
  After the War, 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.
caption: Abadan Institute of Technology in 1939
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