The Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch (IAUM), also known as the Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, is a private university in Mashhad, Iran. This university is a branch of the Islamic Azad University. It was established in 1982 and offers Bachelor, Masters, PhD and M.D. degrees. It is famous for the quality and rigour of its undergraduate education and the success of its students in many national competitions and exams.
About
The Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch is one of the main and earliest branches of the Islamic Azad University. IAU is a private university system with a total of over 350 branches around Iran, and five branches overseas. IAUM was established in December 1982, in response to the high demand for higher education following the Islamic Revolution. The institution receives no financial aid from the government. It is entirely self-financed by student fees and is run by a board of trustees. Each one of the Islamic Azad University's branches is a comprehensive university in its own right with many faculties and offers various degrees up to the PhD level. This branch became one of the Comprehensive units 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 its active members.
IAUM has over 547 academic staff and about 25,936 students. 124 subjects are taught in six major programs (medical science, science, humanities, engineering, agriculture, art and architecture) at four different levels (undergraduate, graduate, Masters and PhD). More than 60,000 students have graduated from IAUM. It is run by more than 1756 administrative staff, most of whom have graduate and postgraduate degrees.
Faculties
Medicine faculty
Basic sciences faculty
College of Basic Sciences
College of Law, Political sciences & Foreign Languages
College of Humanities & Management
School of Medicine
School of Architecture & Art (architecture, Urban Planning, industrial design) School of Sport Sciences
Medicine faculty
The medicine faculty has an Educational space of 6000 square meters 138 with 8 classrooms with audiovisual facilities, an amphitheatre, educational laboratories, a computer and IT centre and pratic, moulage and anatomy halls. There are 7 laboratories in the faculty: Histology, Pathology, Parasitology and Mycology, Microbiology, Physiology and Biochemistry.
Facilities of basic sciences faculty
The faculty educational Space
Since the beginning, the faculty's educational and official space has been located in Mashhad, Rahnamaee street, and two other buildings have been used in Rahnamaee and Sanabad street. Now the sciences faculty with 6420 square meters built area in 4 buildings accepts students.
A major part of the space is occupied with classrooms, audio classes or educational workshops. The faculty has 32 classrooms now.
The faculty library
The library of the basic sciences faculty with 444 square meters of space is located in the south corner of the faculty and includes a book storehouse, awarding part, reference part, issues parts, technical part and male and female studying halls.
The references organization system is based on LC classification which is managed on the basis of the university libraries technical services. Now, all of the faculty members, the sciences faculty students and personnel are permanent members of the library. According to the topics of IAUM libraries, every student has been able to use every library of the university, which is very good for students in accessing to update references and research. Therefore, permanent and variant members of the library are more than 21,000 persons.
Kharazmi research Center
This centre, with the goal of research activities harmonization in orientations of the centre interdisciplinary, was recommended in 2007 and the implementation is in progress. The research laboratories complex of the centre includes nanotechnology research, chemistry, biochemistry physic, geology, physic, mathematic and statistic laboratories. hall
Facilities of Engineering Faculty
Library
The separated libraries are located in every building of the faculty 3 studying halls in the main building and 2 in building NO.2 Having 23,500 volumes of Persian book, 8500 volumes of Latin book, 50 titles Persian journal, 30 titles Latin journal and 710 Persian theses Open and close bookcase and classification is on the basis of congress classification