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Founded by Amir Kabir , then the royal Vizier to Nasereddin Shah , the Shah of Iran, Dar al-Funun originally was conceived as a Polytechnic to train upper-class Persian youth in Medicine , Engineering , Military Science , and Geology . It was similar in scope and purpose to American Land Grant Colleges like Purdue University and Texas A&M . Like them, it developed and expanded its mission over the next hundred years, eventually becoming the University Of Tehran . The institute was planned by the British educated ''Mirza Reza Mohandes'', and built by the architect ''Muhammad Taqi-khan Memar-Bashi'' under the supervision of the Qajar i prince ''Bahram Mirza''. Facilities such as an assembly hall, a theater, library, cafeteria, and a publishing house were built for the institute. The elite school was training 287 students by 1889, and had graduated 1100 students by 1891. During this time, the faculty consisted of 16 Iranian, and 26 European professors. SEE ALSO
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