The University of Isfahan (UI) (Persian: دانشگاه اصفهان, romanized: Dāneshgāh-e Esfahān) is a state-operated university located in Isfahan, Iran. The university is located on Azadi square of Isfahan. It has another campus in Khansar. University of Isfahan offers undergraduate degrees in 71 fields, graduate degrees in 185 fields and postgraduate in 119 fields.
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History
The University of Isfahan was built in 1946. The decision to establish the university was an idea developed by a number of doctors at Amin Hospital in 1939. Eventually, the board of directors of the hospital approved a plan to establish Isfahan Higher Medical Institute in 1946. In September of the same year, an ad signed by lecturer Dr. Jelveh, then caretaker of Isfahan Province Health and Medical Treatment Department, was published in local newspapers calling on prospective students to enroll in the new institute. The first classes were held at Sadi High School (now Soureh Institute). The first classes took place on 29 October 1950. Medical sciences were split off into a separate school, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, in 1985.
Faculties
As of 2020, the university had fourteen faculties which were:
Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics
Faculty of Biological Science and Technology
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Transportation
Faculty of Computer Engineering
Faculty of Education and Psychology
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Foreign Languages
Faculty of Geographical Sciences and Planning
Faculty of Literature and Humanities
Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Sport Sciences
Faculty of Theology and Ahl Al-Bayt (Prophet's Descendants) Studies
Emblem
The university's logo was designed by Dr. Hossein Yaghini in 1968 by order of Dr. Motamedi, the president of the university.
International rankings
CWTS Leiden Ranking:
2019: (P indicator): 765
2018: (P indicator): 776
2017: (P indicator): 797
Times Higher Education World University Rankings:
2021: 801–1,0002020: 801–1,000 2019: 801–1,000
Business and management: 584
Chemistry: 692
Engineering ranking: 598
Notable alumni
Nusrat Bhutto, former First Lady of Pakistan.
Farideh Firoozbakht, a mathematician.
Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran.
Ata'ollah Mohajerani, former minister of culture of Iran.
Houshang Golshiri, Fiction writer, critic and editor
Hrant Markarian, head of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
Fatemeh Shayan, Political Scientist and winner of the 10 International Farabi Award