The Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Qods Branch (

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Islamic Azad University The Islamic Azad University (IAU; , ''Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi'') is a Private university, private university system Headquarters, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. It is one of the largest comprehensive systems of university, universities in ...

in Qods,

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, Iran. It is also the fourth out of ten of the best non-profit universities in Iran (which makes it as a high-ranking one specially among the Azad University Branches). It has 4 faculties, 2 research centers and one research and science campus near the main campus, offering up to 300 disciplines at undergraduate, graduate and doctorate levels with over 35,000 students. The academic staff includes 180 faculty members and about 900 visiting professors.

History

The Islamic Azad University Shahr-e-Qods Branch (QODSIAU) began its activities at a temporary campus in Qods, Tehran, in 1998. The first intake of 700 students for the academic session 1998-1999 began on 20 September 1998. Initially offering 7 programmes, QODSIAU now offers 309 disciplines at undergraduate, graduate and doctorate levels for almost 20,000 students. QODSIAU finances are essentially based on tuition fees, although the university is attempting to diversify its sources of income through commercialization of its researches.

Campuses

Shahr-e Qods Campus

Main campus in Qods is built over tens of hectares of land on the west of Tehran province and near the Qods city.

Science and Research Campus (Shahr-e Qods S & R)

The Science and Research campus established in 2011 alongside the main campus and in 2012 administration offices and most of the postgraduate classes moved there. the main building of the Research and Science campus is Velayat Building and has 7000 square meters of built space and a six-story building.

Infrastructures and facilities

*A main campus of 157652 square meters and Research and Science campus of 7100 square meters *The total construction area of 112641 square meters *The total administrative and educational area of 61000 square meters *The total under-construction area of 6500 square meters. *The total green space of 15000 square meters *The total gardening and agricultural area of 50000 square meters *4 sports complexes with the total area of 11500 square meters in the following fields: ping pong, body building, karate, futsal, basketball, volleyball, chess, handball, badminton, fitness program, taekwondo *1 mosques with a total area of 1200 square meters *5 meeting and conference halls seating 3500 people *5 faculties with a total area of 45200 square meters

Faculties and Departments

Faculty of Engineering

* Department of

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

* Department of

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

* Department of

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

* Department of

Urban Planning Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...

* Department of Food Engineering * Department of

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

Faculty of Agriculture

* Department of

Agronomy Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...

and

Plant Breeding Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It is used to improve the quality of plant products for use by humans and animals. The goals of plant breeding are to produce crop varie ...

* Department of Agricultural Economies * Department of

Irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has bee ...

* Department of

Animal Science Animal science is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of humankind". It can also be described as the production and management of farm animals. Historically, the degree was called animal husbandry and the ...

* Department of

Food Industry The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, ...

* Research Center of

Medicinal Plants Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including Plant defense against h ...

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

* Department of

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

and

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

* Department of

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

* Department of

Accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entity, economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activit ...

* Department of Physical Education & Sports Science * Department of

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

* Department of Religions & Islamic Mysticism * Department of General Lessons & Islamic Sources

Faculty of Basic Sciences

* Department of

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

* Department of

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

* Department of

Organic Chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the science, scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic matter, organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain ...

* Department of

Analytical Chemistry Analytical skill, Analytical chemistry studies and uses instruments and methods to Separation process, separate, identify, and Quantification (science), quantify matter. In practice, separation, identification or quantification may constitute t ...

* Department of

Applied Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their com ...

* Department of Pure Chemistry * Department of

Molecular Biology Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...

* Department of

Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

References

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