Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch

The Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch (IAUM), also known as the Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, is a private university in Mashhad, Iran. This university is a branch of the Islamic Azad University. It was established in 1982 and offers Bachelor, Masters, PhD, and M.D. degrees.

Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch

دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد مشهد Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi Vāhed-e Mashhad
Type	private(Islamic Azad University System)
Established	1982
President	Dr. Mohsen Moradi
Academic staff	502
Students	32,000
Location	Mashhad , Razavi Khorasan , Iran
Website	www.mshdiau.ac.ir

About

The Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch is one of the main and earliest branches of the Islamic Azad University. IAU is a private university system with a total of over 350 branches around Iran, and five branches overseas. IAUM was established in December 1982, following the Islamic Revolution. The institution receives no financial aid from the government. It is self-financed by student fees and is run by a board of trustees. Each one of the Islamic Azad University's branches is a comprehensive university in its own right with many faculties and offers various degrees up to the PhD level. This branch became one of the Comprehensive units in July 2000 and in the second general assembly of the International Association of University, and the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, April 2001, became one of its active members.

IAUM has over 547 academic staff and about 25,936 students. 124 subjects are taught in six major programs (medical science, science, humanities, engineering, agriculture, art and architecture) at four different levels (undergraduate, graduate, Masters and PhD). More than 60,000 students have graduated from IAUM. It is run by more than 1756 administrative staff, most of whom have graduate and postgraduate degrees.

Faculties

• Medicine faculty
• Basic sciences faculty
• College of Basic Sciences
• College of Law, Political sciences & Foreign Languages
• College of Humanities & Management
• School of Medicine
• School of Architecture & Art (architecture, Urban Planning, industrial design)
• School of Sport Sciences

Medicine faculty

The medicine faculty has an educational space of 6,000 square meters (138), with 8 classrooms with audiovisual facilities, an amphitheatre, educational laboratories, a computer and IT center, and pratic, moulage, and anatomy halls. There are 7 laboratories in the faculty: histology, pathology, parasitology, and mycology, microbiology, physiology and biochemistry.

Facilities of basic sciences faculty

The faculty educational Space

Since the beginning, the faculty's educational and official space has been located in Mashhad, Rahnamaee Street, and two other buildings have been used in Rahnamaee and Sanabad Street. Now the sciences faculty with 6,420 square meters of built area in 4 buildings accepts students.

The faculty has 32 classrooms now.

The faculty library

The library of the basic sciences faculty with 444 square meters of space is located in the south corner of the faculty. The reference organization system is based on LC classification, which is managed on the basis of the university libraries technical services.

Kharazmi research Center

This center, with the goal of research activities harmonization in orientations of the center interdisciplinary, was recommended in 2007 and the implementation is in progress. The research laboratories complex of the center includes nanotechnology research, chemistry, biochemistry physic, geology, physic, mathematic, and statistic laboratories. hall

Library

The separated libraries are located in every building of the faculty 3 studying halls in the main building and 2 in building NO.2

In order for students to access the newest information of the world, the faculty has managed to get the membership of some magazines and electronic databases.

Amphitheater and Auditorium

The faculty has two spaces with about 400 square meters of area and also with a totally 350 persons capacity for holding different ceremonies and conferences.

Mechanized system

The students of Technical and Engineering faculty conduct all their affairs related to educational and financial and other student issue areas such as course selection, omission and addition, education engagement deposition and grades receiving and report card through the internet.

Cafeteria and self-service

Among other welfare facilities in the Technical and Engineering Faculty are cafeteria and self-service halls.

Communication services

For the students' comfort, several buses are devoted, in the student high traffic routes of the students throughout Mashhad, to transfer the students to the faculty and vice versa.

Facilities of Law, Political Sciences and Foreign Languages Faculty

There are 17 classrooms.

Library of faculty

There are 26,000 books in law, political sciences, English and French. 18,000 of them are in Persian and 8,000 are in English and French.

Facilities of Paramedical Faculty

This faculty has 5 educational classrooms with a capacity of 85 students.

The libraryparamedical1

The library of Para Medical Faculty was established in 2003 in a limited space with about 60 volumes of books n the location of the faculty. Now, some of the references include about 5270 Persian and Latin books which are classified with the congress library method and also has 240 Persian and Latin magazines.

Dynamic site

In the faculty site with the address of http://pmd.mshdiau.ac.ir Archived 2020-02-20 at the Wayback Machine, the latest news and information about the educational departments of the faculty are accessible by the students and professors.

IAUMg, Student Association of IAUM

Student Association of IAUM (Islamic Azad University of Mashhad) which is called "IAUMg", Dependent on KAVA Academic Center, has begun its activity in summer 2009. IAUMg has been approved by IAUM Public relations (iaumnews.ir) and Cultural Deputy of University (License Number: 31395/d).