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Iran, Turkey set to establish joint university

Iran, Turkey set to establish joint university
Iran and Turkey have agreed to establish a joint non-profit university by September this year, Iranian Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology for International Affairs Arsalan Qorbani says.

Qorbani said on Sunday that the decision to establish the university was made based upon a proposal by Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology Kamran Daneshjoo during a meeting with President of Turkey’s Council of Higher Education Yusuf Ziya Ozcan in July 2011.

Based on the decision, Iran’s Tabriz University and Turkey’s Yuzuncu Yil University were assigned to act as the representatives of the two countries to follow through and execute the plan, Qorbani added.

The joint university will have two branches, one in the Iranian city of Tabriz and the other in the Turkish city of Van, and will offer majors in all levels of education, particularly at the postgraduate level, he added.

Qorbani noted that tuition fees will be received in Rial in Iran and in Lira in Turkey, adding, “The teaching language of the two branches will be in Persian and Turkish, but 30 percent of the courses at the medicine and engineering faculties would be offered in English.”

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