Payame Noor University

Payame Noor University (PNU) is a state distance education university with the headquarters based in Tehran, 30 provincial centers, 485 local study centers and campuses all around the country and one International Study Center located in the headquarters. Established in 1988, PNU is a legal body under the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. PNU took its first intake at 5 study fields at 28 local study centers. Presently, the university has 3,500 academic members and 1,101,182 national and international students. Its name means "The message of Light" in Persian. Payam-e Noor University is a long-distance mega university and open college, whose name means "The message of Light" in Persian. It was established by...