Shahid Beheshti University is a university in Iran. Established in 1959 as the National University of Iran (NUI), the university started its academic life in 1960 with 174 students in the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Faculty of Banking and Economics. The first Master's course at SBU was offered in the Faculty of Architecture in 1961, while the first Ph.D. program was introduced in the Faculty of Economics in 1991. The university's name was changed during the Cultural Revolution in Iranian universities, 1980-82.