TEHRAN -- The University of Tehran (UT) plans to expand academic ties with the University of Tokyo, the head of the University of Tehran Farhad Rahbar announced on Monday.

During his visit with the head of the University of Tokyo Hiroshi Komiyama, Rahbar announced that UT is ready to conduct joint research in different fields.
Rahbar also stressed UT’s activities, its prominent position in Iran, and that much scientific research takes place at the university.
He went on to say that UT has 41 faculties and 120 research groups. Some 2,500 Ph.D. students and 10,000 postgraduate students are studying in 200 different fields in this university.
Komiyama welcomed Rahbar’s proposition and expressed his hope that the two universities would expand academic ties.
He pointed to the 130-year precedent of the University of Tokyo saying that the university is cooperating with other universities and research centers worldwide.
The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. As a leading research university, the University of Tokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity
The University of Tokyo has a faculty of over 4,000 and a total enrollment of about 29,000, evenly divided between undergraduate and graduate students.