Yazd University

Yazd University
دانشگاه يزد
Type	State
Established	1976
President	Mohammad Saleh Owlia
Academic staff	400
Students	15000
Location	Yazd, Yazd Province, Iran
Campus	Urban
Website	www.yazd.ac.ir/en

Yazd University is an Iranian university in the city of Yazd in Yazd Province.

The university was founded in 1976,and has witnessed a period of rapid growth ever since. The university has an area of 380 ha with a total building area of 24 ha. It has 400 faculty members and about 15000 students in 180 different fields in Ph.D. (37), Masters (80), and Bachelors (63) levels.

Departments

The University currently has 12 main departments as follows:

Department of Art and Architecture:YU’s Art and Architecture Department is the fourth architecture department in the Ministry of Science (After Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Science and Technology universities)and it was the first one not in the capital. Ever since its founding, the College of Architecture has built up a national reputation for excellence, and is widely recognized as one of the leading academic departments of architecture in Iran. The college has been visited by notables such as Arata Isozaki and Rem Koolhaas. The head of faculty for the past 10 years ( since 2001) is Dr. Mohammadreza Noghsanmohammadi who has great contribution for the faculty developments. The faculty contains three departments, Architecture, urbanism and painting..
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: In the early 1990’s, the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (ECE) were established within the faculty of Engineering of YU. These two departments were then joined in 2008 into the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Department of Mining and Metallurgy: The Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering was established in 1991. The most important research activities of this department has been holding five conferences, publishing a scientific and research journal and running a mining engineering research center.
Department of Engineering: This department started its activities in 1988 and includes the programs of Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanics Engineering, and Textile Engineering.
Department of Economic,Management and Accounting: The Department of Economy, Management and Accounting of Yazd University has begun its activities since 1990 initially with Industrial Management field.
Department of Social Science: The history of this department goes back to 1995, when the Department of Social Science was established. It became an independent department ten years later in 2005. This shift made it possible to employ new faculty members in different fields of social sciences. Consequently the fields of study were expanded to make the department a place for different subjects of social studies. The inclusion of Information Science and Knowledge Studies to the department resulted in making the field of knowledge, science, and technology significant parts of the studies.
Department of Literature: The history of Languages and Literature Department dates back to 1976 when the Persian Literature Department was founded in Teacher Training University. Later on it was merged with Yazd University in 1992. The Programs of English Language and Literature and Arabic Language and Literature were later added to the department in 1994 and 1997 respectively.
Department of Humanities: The department started its activities from 1977. It includes the programs of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, Geography, Educational Sciences and Psychology, History, Political Science, Ahl Al-Bayt Studies, and Physical Education.
Department of Natural Resources: Department of Natural Resources was established in 1992. The main programs of the departments are Environmental Engineering, Watershed and Range land Management , Forestry , Soil Sciences , Arid Lands and Desert Management.
Department of Physics: The Department of Physics was established in 1982. Recently there are 5 programs; Atomic and Molecular Physics, Solid State Physics , Nuclear Physics , Elementary Particle Physics , Meteorology Physics.
Department of Mathematics: The Department of Mathematics was founded in 1977 under the name of Mathematics and initially offered only B.Sc. in Mathematics, M.Sc. and PhD in Pure and Applied Mathematics were added in 1994 and 2004 respectively. Moreover, the M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics as a new interdisciplinary branch of Applied Mathematics began in 2011. The Computer Science was founded in the Department of Mathematics of Yazd University in 2001, and since then has accepted students for the Bachelor of Science degree.
Department of Basic Science: Since the establishment of Yazd University in 1988, the department of Science has been among the first faculties with a few students in Mathematics. Then it included the programs of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology. Later on, the programs of Mathematics and Physics got separated from the department of Science and continued their activities as separated departments. Now, the department includes programs of Chemistry, Biology and Geology.