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IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) is one of the largest medical schools in Iran. Located in Tehran, it was founded in 1974 under the name The Imperial Medical Center, and designed by William Pereira and Associates. The school was state operated, and its current reincarnation trains 7,000 students in the medical field. Its students rank among the very top 1% of Iran’s students in the national ranking entrance exams for universities. The University operates ten schools (Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery,Public Health,Health Management and Information Sciences, Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences, Rehabilitation Sciences, Advanced technologies in Medicine, Allied Medical Sciences and Medicine and Pharmacy in its International Campus), twocenters, two institutes, twenty-nine research centers, seventeen teaching and fifteen non-teaching hospitals in Tehran.