| University of Isfahan | |
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| دانشگاه اصفهان | |
| © University of Isfahan | |
| Established | 1946 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Mohammad Hossein Ramesht |
| Academic staff | 450 |
| Students | 16,553 |
| Location | Isfahan (city), Isfahan Province, Iran |
| Campus | Urban |
| Athletics | 10 teams |
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University of Isfahan (UI) (Persian: دانشگاه اصفهان Dāneshgāh-e Esfāhān) is a state-operated university in Iran. It is one of the most prominent science and engineering schools in Iran and is the largest university in Isfahan Province in Iran. The university is located in the southern section of the city of Isfahan. University of Isfahan is located in Azadi square of Isfahan, in the middle of the city has another campus in Khansar.
University of Isfahan offers undergraduate degrees in 70 fields and graduate degrees in 55 areas. Students come from all over the world to study a wide variety of courses at Bachelor, Master and Doctoral levels in full time and part time. The University has seven faculties and thirty-four departments, and is still expanding. The university includes more than five hundred full time academic members. The student body consists of 12000 undergraduate students and 4500 graduate students from all the 30 provinces. Undergraduate admission to University of Isfahan is limited to the top 10% of students who pass the national entrance examination administered yearly by the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education.
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University of Isfahan with more than 50 years experience is one of the major universities in the fields of science, human science and engineering. The decision to establish the university was rooted in an idea developed by a number of doctors at Amin Hospital in 1939. Finally, the hospital's board of directors 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). Many more students enrolled in subsequent years. Therefore, the institute had to find a larger campus to accommodate the growing number of new students. On October 29, 1950, the first series of classes was held at the University of Isfahan. Other colleges such as the Medical University, the newly established College of Medicine and Literature College on Shahzadeh Ebrahim Street also joined University of Isfahan and relocated themselves in the main campus in subsequent years. The university later offered programs in human sciences, engineering and medical sciences. Related programs of medical sciences were then separated from the University of Isfahan and became an independent university in 1985, named medical university of Isfahan.