Kharazmi University

Coordinates: 35°42′16.12″N 51°25′36.3″E / 35.7044778°N 51.426750°E / 35.7044778; 51.426750

Kharazmi University
دانشگاه خوارزمی
Type Public
Established 1919
President Dr. Mohammad Ali Sobhanollahi
Academic staff
 344
Students ~14,000
Location Tehran and Karaj
Campus Semi-Urban,Urban
Athletics teams
Website khu.ac.ir

Kharazmi University (Persian: دانشگاه خوارزمی‎‎, formerly Teacher Training University Persian: دانشگاه تربیت معلم‎‎) is a major institution of higher education, offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in a variety of disciplines. Kharazmi University is considered as the oldest institution of higher education in Iran named after Khwarizmi (780-c. 850), Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer. It was established in 1919 as the Central Teachers' Institute and gained university status as Tarbiat Moallem University of Tehran in 1974. It changed its name to Kharazmi University on January 31, 2012. In 2015, the Iran University of Economic Science was merged into Kharazmi University as its faculty of management,[1] faculty of financial sciences and faculty of economics.

The university is one of the largest universities of Iran, with faculties of science, engineering, mathematical & computer sciences, Persian literature and humanities, psychology & education, physical education & sport sciences, management and economics and chemistry.[2] The university has two campuses, one in the Hesarak area west of Karaj and one the historic campus of the university dating to the early 1920s in central Tehran (off Darvazeh-Dowlat and Taleghani metro stations). The president of the university is Dr. Mohammad Ali Sobhanallahi.

Faculties

Dr. Mosaheb statue in front of Faculty of Mathematical Sciences & Computer

The university has the following faculties:

  1. Faculty of Letters and Humanities
  2. Faculty of Psychology & Education
  3. Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Sciences
  4. Faculty of Management and Accounting
  5. Faculty of Geography
  6. Faculty of Engineering - Kharazmi University
  7. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
  8. Faculty of Physical Sciences
  9. Faculty of Chemistry
  10. Faculty of Biological Sciences
  11. Faculty of Geosciences
  12. International Campus (Pardis)

Graduate Programs

Sciences

Engineering

Social Sciences and Humanities

See also

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