University of Tehran Shines at the Third National Soraya Festival

The National Soraya Festival is held annually by the Organization of Student Affairs of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to honor the country's top universities. 

At the ceremony, emphasis was placed on the need to achieve the enrollment of 320,000 foreign students by the end of the Seventh Development Plan,  holding of structured in-person and virtual training courses in international languages (English and Arabic). It was also announced that the Council of Ministers had approved the opening of foreign-currency accounts at universities and the collection of tuition fees in foreign currency from international students.

The festival also featured two specialized panel sessions on international student recruitment and on Persian Language Teaching Centers (AZFA).

The National Soraya Award was established pursuant to a Council of Ministers resolution on facilitating and organizing the process of international student recruitment, and is held annually, with comprehensive evaluation of university performance, hosted by one of the country's prominent higher education institutions. The previous two editions of the festival were hosted by Tarbiat Modares University and Shahid Beheshti University, and this year, Iran University of Science and Technology hosted the Third National Soraya Festival.