Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (NIT), sometimes also referred to as Noshirvani Institute of Technology or NIT, is a public research university and Institute of Technology in Babol, Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran, 20 km south of the Caspian Sea. The university is an influential center for academic research in Iran, due to which it has been consistently ranked among the top schools in the country. NIT is currently ranked 1st among all Iranian universities according to Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. THE has also ranked NIT between 351st and 400th among world universities, 55th among the world’s young universities, as well as 43rd among Asian universities.