Ghazni University is a public university in
Ghazni
Ghazni ( prs, غزنی, ps, غزني), historically known as Ghaznain () or Ghazna (), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana ( gr, Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan ...
, a city in central
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
. It was established in 2008 and began with two faculties, the Faculty of Agriculture and the Faculty of Education. The university's first
rector
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was Ahmad Shah Rafiqi. During its inaugural semester, the university had around 110 students (97 male and 14 female). As of 2019, the university has five faculties and enrolls around 4,000 students, 540 (13.5 percent) of which are women.
History
The construction of the university was originally supported by the
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Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and after some time it was fully supported by the Afghan government. The university gradually expanded and enrolled more students, creating a need for more faculties. Ahmad Shah Rafiqi was replaced by Abdul Qadeer Khamosh around the time of the expansion, and after two years he himself was replaced by Mohammad Bayer Darmal who is the current rector.
A new campus for the university was constructed in the city's eastern quarter. Two more faculties were added, the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Sharia (Islamic law). The Faculty of Literature & Languages was also later added.
On 16 September 2019, a bomb attached to a university minibus exploded, killing one and injuring five. A little over three weeks later on 8 October 2019, a bomb exploded in one of the university's classrooms, injuring at least 19 students.
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Universities in Afghanistan
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