Islamic Azad University of Mashhad

Islamic Azad University of Mashhad (IAUM) is a university in Mashhad, Iran. It was established in 1982, and offers Bachelor, Master, PhD and M.D. degrees. It is famous for the quality and toughness of its undergraduate education and the success of its students in many national competitions and exams. About IAUM

Mashhad city, the provincial capital of Khorassan E Razavi, Iran 's largest province. That is the nation's second largest city and also Iran's holiest city and a place of pilgrimage for Shiite Moslems from all over the world. Khorassan is one of Iran 's most important provinces both geographically and historically as well as religious. It is also the cradle of the Persian language and the civilization of eastern Iran, and the homeland of many great Iranian poets, writers and scholars . And today, by the help of God and under the supports of the Islamic Revolution, Mashhad is offering another great opportunity for knowledge production. The Islamic Azad University-Mashhad Branch (IAUM) is one the main and earliest branches of the Islamic Azad University (IAU). IAU is a chain university with a total of over 350 Branches around Iran, and 5 Branches overseas. The IAUM is established in December 1982, as a response to the high demand for higher education, after the Islamic Revolution in Iran . The institution receives no financial aid from the government. It is self-financed entirely by the fees it receives from the students and is run by a board of trustees. Each one of the Islamic Azad University's branches are a comprehensive university on its own right with many faculties, and offers various degrees up to PhD. This branch became one of the Comprehensive unit in July 2000 and in the second general assembly of the International Association of University, and the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, April 2001 Koualalampur, Malaysia, became one of the its active members .

The IAUM has over 547 members of academic staff, and about 25936 students. Students are studying in 124 different subjects in 6 major programs of medical science, science, humanities, engineering, agriculture, art and architecture and in four different degrees of undergraduate, graduate, Master and PHD. Until now more than 60000 students are graduate17d from this university.The administrative staffs of this branch are more than 1175 persons, in which most of them are in graduate and post-graduate level. The university has several faculties including Basic Sciences, Art, Humanities, Engineering, Linguistic, Sport, law, Agriculture and Medicine from undergraduate to post-graduate, level, with wide variety of subjects covering almost every field from social sciences to medicine and from basic sciences to the theology.