Campus Setting of Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (BNUT) is located in an urban area in Babol, Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran, approximately 20 km south of the Caspian Sea. The school was founded in 1970 by the Iranian philanthropist, Seyed Hossein Fallah Noshirvani. During the early years, the complex served primarily as a training center for technical instructors who would teach at community colleges in fields related to engineering. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the school merged with the University of Mazandaran (UMZ) to become a College of Engineering and changed its curriculum to offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering. In 2005, following public demand and supported by donations from people of Babol, the institution started a process of independence from UMZ, during which it was temporarily referred to as “Noshirvani Technical and Education Complex”. Since March 2008, BNUT has been an independent public university under the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology. BNUT has a total area of 171190 m² and a total population of 6329. This means a low population density of 0.037 inhabitants per m².