Azad Islamic University

This article is about the university network, for the Damavand location see Azad Islamic University Damavand , for Mahshahr see Azad Islamic University Mahshahr .

Azad Islamic University دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی
founding	1982
Sponsorship	Private
place	Tehran
country	Iran
president	Farhad Rahbar
Networks	FUIW , IAU
Website	iau.ac.ir

The Azad Islamic University ( Persian دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی daneschgahe azade eslami , DMG Dāneschgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi , 'Islamic Free University'; English Islamic Azad University ) is the largest private university with different locations or a network of universities in Iran and the Middle East. It is the university with the most students in Iran and one of the largest universities in the world. Its main office is in Tehran . It was founded in 1982 by Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani . Farhad Rahbar has been its president since 2017. The university has approximately 1.7 million students. The university consists of more than 400 departments and branches at home and abroad ( United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , Tanzania , Lebanon and Armenia , the establishment of further universities and branches in Malaysia , Canada , Afghanistan and Tajikistan is in progress) employ well over 30,000 people. The foreign branches are usually "branches", i.e. only offices.

Locations

• Azad Islamic University Damavand
• Azad Islamic University Mahshahr
• Azad Islamic University of Karaj

literature

• Gholamreza Rahimi, Ghader Vazifeh Damirch, “Islamic Azad University Roles in Scientific Developement of Iran”, Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business, Vol. 1, Issue. 9, (pp 84–91), September – October 2011 ( Online ; PDF; 452 kB)

Web links

Commons : Azad Islamic University  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• iau.ac.ir (Official Website)
• englishtogerman.wordpress.com: Iran's Supreme Leader takes a stand against the Free University

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, accessed September 1, 2019 .  
2. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed July 31, 2019 .  
3. ↑ nationalinterest.org
4. ↑ Azad University website (English)
5. ↑ Gholamreza Rahimi, Ghader Vazifeh Damirch, p. 84 ("Some 1.7 million study in various programs in Islamic Azad University")
6. ↑ Gholamreza Rahimi, Ghader Vazifeh Damirch, p. 84

Coordinates: 35 ° 42 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 51 ° 23 ′ 0.9 ″  E