Damavand College

Damavand College
مدرسه عالی دماوند
Former name	Damavand Higher Educational Institute
Type	women's private (1968–1974);; public (1974–1979)
Active	1968–1979
Location	13 Diba Alley, Tehran, Iran (from 1968 to 1976),; Lashgark Road, Tehran, Iran (from 1976 to 1979)

Damavand College (Persian: مدرسه عالی دماوند; romanization: Madreseh-ye Ālī-ye Damāvand; and later, دانشکده دماوند Dāneshkadeh-ye Damāvand) was founded in 1968 as a private institution of higher learning for women and run by an international community and by American Presbyterian Missionaries. In 1974, it became a public college, offering a four-year intercultural program in liberal arts.

In 1976, the campus was designed by William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) and Nezam Amery of the Amery-Kamooneh-Khosrovi Group.

It was one of the last educational centers that closed down preceding the February 1979 events within the Islamic Iranian Revolution. The former campus of Damavand College is now occupied by Payame Noor University.

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