Alzahra University
| دانشگاه الزهراء | |
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| Motto | Learned Woman, Progressive Society |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1964 |
| Chancellor | Mahnaz Molanazari (Acting) |
| Location | Tehran, Tehran, Iran |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
Alzahra University (in Persian: دانشگاه الزهرا) is a female-only state-run university in Vanak, Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran. Alzahra University is the only comprehensive women’s university in Iran and the Middle East.
The university, founded in 1964, began as a private institution under the title of the Higher Educational Institute For Girls (In Persian: مدرسه عالی دختران) with 90 students. After the Iranian revolution, the university attained public status, and was renamed Mahboubeh Mottahedin after an Iranian Revolutionary who was killed prior to the 1979 revolution. Subsequently, in 1983 the university was rename Al-Zahra University, after Fatimah Zahra, the daughter of Muhammad prophet of Islam.
The university offers 51 undergraduate, 83 graduate, and 31 post-graduate programs to 10,000 students. The university has ten faculties and a research center for women’s studies, as well as a branch in the city of Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan province) and two self-supporting campuses.
The faculties of Alzahra University are Art, Biological Sciences, Education and Psychology, Engineering and Technology, Literature and Languages, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Education, Physics and Chemistry, Social and Economic Sciences, and Theology.
The university initiated its graduate studies program in 1369/1990, under the supervision of Vice Chancellery for Academic Affairs, by establishing an Educational Psychology master's degree program and admitting 11 students. It then established five fields and admission of 36 students in 1372/1993. In 1373/1994 the Graduate Studies Affairs was established and commenced its mission with 158 students in eight master's degree fields. The first PhD examination was administered in Islamic History in the same year.
The university offers doctoral programs in History (Islamic History and History of Islamic Iran), Psychology, Economics, Research in Art, Chemistry, Physics, and Applied Mathematics.
The academic faculty of the university is a community of some 350 tenured scholars teaching and conducting research. The professors work in collaboration with visiting colleagues from other Iranian universities.
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