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
Former names
Tarbiat Moallem University
Type Public
Established 1919
Chancellor Prof. Mohammad Ali Sobhanallahi
Academic staff
459
Students ~14,000
Location Karaj and Tehran, Iran
Campus Karaj - Tehran
Website khu.ac.ir

Kharazmi University (in Persian: دانشگاه خوارزمی, formerly known as Tarbiat Moallem University, in 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. 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 faculty of financial sciences and faculty of economics. The university has two main campuses, one is the central campus in Tehran, another is in the Hesarak area west of Karaj.

History

The first teacher training institution for primary schools in Iran was established as Darol-Mo'allemin Markazi (Central House of Teachers) in the building of the Culture Ministry in Takht-e-Zomorod area of Tehran in 1919. With the increase in the number of schools in Iran and the increasing need for trained teachers, Darol-Mo'allemin Markazi was developed into Darol-Mo'allemin Aali (Higher House of Teachers) at the Higher Council for Sciences in October 1926. In December 1927, the Iranian Parliament passed a law to modify the statute of the latter institution to support it further and help employ its graduates nationwide. From then on, Darol-Mo'allemin Aali was divided into the two major ‘scientific' and ‘literary' departments. In 1932 and with expansion of the courses offered, Darol-Mo'allemin Aali moved to Negarestan building, which had, as part of the Negarestan Garden, started its history as the summer residence of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, the second king of the Qajar dynasty in 1808. Darol-Mo'allemin Aali changed its name to Danesh-saraye-ali (Higher Training College) in 1933. In 1963, the government's board of ministers supplanted the Danesh-saraye-ali with the organization for Teacher Education and Educational Research. The organization was rebadged again as Danesh-saraye-ali, however, and came to be sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education after the latter was founded in the country in 1967. In 1974, with the approval of the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education, Danesh-saraye-ali turned into Teacher Training University with its own dedicated board of trustees. The university was subsequently assigned with the task of developing teacher education programmes across the country and Danesh-saraye-alis or Higher Training Colleges were duly established in Zahedan, Sanandaj and Yazd and the Science Schools in Arak and Kashan were affiliated with Teacher Training University. The two final branches of the university were finally established in Sabzevar and Tabriz in 1987 and 1989 respectively.

In 1990, all the higher education institutions affiliated with or established by Teacher Training University were separated from and granted independence by the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education. The university changed its name to Kharazmi University January, 2012 to further expand and strengthen the educational and research activities at

the university, the University of Economic Sciences was incorporated into Kharazmi University according to the decision made on

15.03.2015 at the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

Campuses

Tehran Campus

The Tehran Campus has as one of its attractions national the heritage building designed by the Russian-Iranian architect Nikolai Markov in the late 1920s—is located in an area of 2 square kilometers on South Mofatteh Ave. This place is located in central Tehran and it is the central core of the university's educational and research sections.

Karaj Campus

With the increase in the courses offered and the activities at the university generally the construction of a second campus started in 1977 in the city of Karaj, west of the province of Tehran. The Karaj Campus covers almost 200 hectares of land and it includes, in addition to a central administrative building, the buildings of the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Education and Literature and Faculty of Humanities as well as student dormitories, staff houses, recreational facilities and other installations. The university's board of trustees approved of the foundation of another independent campus in Tehran in Nov. 2012 with the purpose of further expanding the university's research and educational activities and boost the number of students admitted in its postgraduate programmes. The construction of purpose-built and dedicated buildings for the faculty of Chemistry, Psychology, Engineering and Life Science are soon to start.

Structure

The university has 5 deputy departments, 16 faculties, 4 research institutes, 4 research centers, and 2 national centers of research excellence. There are 450 members of academic staff: 40 professors, 90 associate professors, 287 assistant professors, and 33 instructors. There are more than 900 non-academic staff members.

Faculties

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

The university has the following faculties and research centers:

Name of research institutes

Research Institutes description

See also

References

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