Islamic Azad University (Persian: دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی , Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi) is a private chain of universities in Iran. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... For other uses, see Tehran (disambiguation). ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Persian (local name: FārsÄ« or PārsÄ« ) is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, India, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ...

Headquartered in Tehran, Iran, the Islamic Azad University was founded in 1982 and currently has an enrollment of 850,000 undergraduate students.^[1] For other uses, see Tehran (disambiguation). ...

The university system also operates a news agency similar to ISNA, named "Azad News Agency" ISNA can refer to: Iranian Students News Agency Intersex Society of North America This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

See also

• Education System in Islamic Azad University
• Higher education in Iran
• List of universities in Iran - includes list of IAU Universities

University of Tehran College of Humanities Iran has a large network of private, public, and state affiliated universities offering degrees in higher education. ... This is a list of universities in Iran: See Higher education in Iran, for more information. ...

References

1. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica World Almanac, ed. 2004, page 666

External links

(in Farsi)

• Main website
• Islamic Azad University (South Tehran branch)
• Islamic Azad University, Shiraz
• Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Unit