| Kharazmi University | |
| Native Name: | Persian: دانشگاه خوارزمی |
| Native Name Lang: | fa |
| Type: | Public |
| Chancellor: | Ali Hasanbeigi |
| Academic Staff: | 541 |
| Undergrad: | 7850 |
| Postgrad: | 3400 |
| City: | Tehran and Karaj |
| Country: | Iran, Middle East |
| Campus: | Karaj and Tehran |
| Former Names: | Tehran University of Teacher Training (TOT) |
| Free Label: | Athletics |
| Website: | khu.ac.ir |
| Enrollment: | ~14,500 |
| Mottoeng: | Better Education for Better World |
Kharazmi University (Abbreviation: KHU) (Persian: دانشگاه خوارزمی, Daneshgah-e Xuarazmi) [Former Name: Tehran University of Teacher Training ({{lang-fa|دانشگاه تربیت معلم سابق}})] is a major public research university in Iran, KHU named after Khwarizmi (c. 780–850), Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer, offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in a variety of disciplines. KHU is considered as the oldest institution of higher education in Iran.[1] [2] It was established in 1919 as the Central Teachers' Institute and gained university status as Tarbiat Moallem University of Tehran in 1974. It changed its name to Kharazmi University on January 31, 2012.[3]
In 2015, the University of Economic Sciences (founded in 1936) was merged into Kharazmi University as its faculty of management, faculty of financial sciences and faculty of economics. The university has two main campuses, the main campus including administration offices located in Tehran, another is in the Hesarak district of Karaj.
Currently, KHU accepts students in various fields of basic sciences, humanities, literature education and engineering at different levels from bachelor's to doctorate even post-doctorate and higher levels. kharazmi is one of the state universities affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran, which is named after Mohammad bin Musa Khwarazmi, an Iranian scientist of the 3rd century AH, and is located in Tehran and a campus in the city of Karaj, the capital of Alborz province. This university has changed its name several times. The president of this university is Ali Hasan Beigi and the founder of university is Isa Seddigh.This old university was registered in the list of national monuments of Iran by UNESCO on the first date of Mehr month 1382 AH under number 10410.The architect of the KHU university is the Russian engineer Markov. Among the construction materials used in the construction of this building, plastering, tiling, inscriptions, etc. can be mentioned.
KHI School of Engineering and business school won international rankings of 601-800th in 2019, 2020, and 2021 in 351-400. in 2023 8th in Iran and 400-451 in the world. It ranked 6th and 10th in industrial incomes among Iranian universities Especially Business school in 2020 and Civil Engineering, Economy Education And MBA.[4]
The first teacher training institution for primary schools in Iran was established as Darol-Mo'allemin Markazi (Central college of Teachers) in the building of the Culture Ministry in Takht-e-Zomorod area of Tehran in 1919.[5] With the increase in the number of schools in Iran and the increasing need for trained teachers, Darol-Mo'allemin Markazi was developed into Darol-Mo'allemin Aali (Higher college of Teachers) at the Higher Council for Sciences in October 1926. In December 1927, the Iranian Parliament passed a law to modify the statute of the latter institution to support it further and help employ its graduates nationwide. From then on, Darol-Mo'allemin Aali was divided into the two major ‘sciences' and ‘literary' departments.
In 1932 and with expansion of the courses offered, Darol-Mo'allemin Aali moved to Negarestan building, which had, as part of the Negarestan Garden, started its history as the summer residence of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, the second king of the Qajar dynasty in 1808. Darol-Mo'allemin Aali changed its name to Daneshsaraye Aali (Higher Training College) in 1933. In 1963, the board of ministers supplanted the Danesh-Saraye-Ali with the organization for Teacher Education and Educational Research. The organization was rebadged again as Danesh-Saraye-Ali, however, and came to be sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education after the latter was founded in the country in 1967. In 1974, with the approval of the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education, Danesh-saraye-ali turned into Teacher Training University with its own dedicated board of trustees.
The university was subsequently assigned with the task of developing teacher education programmes across the country and Danesh-Saraye-Alis or Higher Training Colleges were duly established in Zahedan, Sanandaj and Yazd and the Science Schools in Arak and Kashan were affiliated with Teacher Training University. The two final branches of the university were finally established in Sabzevar and Tabriz in 1987 and 1989 respectively.
In 1990, all the higher education institutions affiliated with or established by Teacher Training University were separated from and granted independence by the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education. The university changed its name to Kharazmi University January 2012 to further expand and strengthen the educational and research activities at the university, the University of Economic Sciences was incorporated into Kharazmi University according to the decision made on March 15, 2015, at the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.
The Tehran Campus has as one of its attractions national the heritage building designed by the Russian-Iranian architect Nikolai Markov in the late 1920s—is located in an area of 2 square kilometers on Mofatteh Ave. This place is located in central Tehran.
With the increase in the courses offered and the activities at the university generally the construction of a second campus started in 1977 in the city of Karaj, west of the province of Tehran. The Karaj Campus covers almost 200 hectares of land and it includes, in addition to a central administrative building, the buildings of the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Education and Literature and Faculty of Humanities as well as student dormitories, staff houses, recreational facilities and other installations. The university's board of trustees approved of the foundation of another independent campus in Tehran in Nov. 2012 with the purpose of further expanding the university's research and educational activities and boost the number of students admitted in its postgraduate programmes. The construction of purpose-built and dedicated buildings for the faculty of Chemistry, Psychology, Engineering and Life Science are soon to start.
The chancellor of the university is Azizollah Habibi.[6] The university has 5 deputy departments, 16 faculties, 4 research institutes, 4 research centers, and 2 national centers of research excellence. There are 450 members of academic staff: 40 professors, 90 associate professors, 287 assistant professors, and 33 instructors. There are more than 900 non-academic staff members.
The university has the following faculties:
The Faculty of Engineering at Kharazmi University was established in 2003 with the aim of training capable and creative engineers using the highest educational and research standards to prepare them to provide specialized services related to the specialty and by continuing their studies up to the doctoral level. At present, the school has four departments: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.
The faculty pursues its goals with significant laboratory, laboratory and research facilities and equipment. The Technical College has a new building under construction with about 9000 square meters of infrastructure.
Kharazmi University's Department of Civil Engineering, as the first department of the faculty, started its activities in 2003 with the launch of the Master of Geotechnical Engineering. The group currently accepts students in seven majors: geotechnics, structures, environment, earthquake, hydraulic and hydraulic structures, roads and transportation, engineering and construction management. The group also accepted students in October 2009 through the national entrance exam for the bachelor's degree in civil engineering and from October 2013 for the doctoral degree in the fields of civil engineering and geotechnics.
The laboratories of this group include research facilities required to conduct applied research in various fields of civil engineering:
Department of Industrial Engineering was established in 2006. Currently, the group accepts students in the majors of: systems optimization, logistics and supply chain engineering, engineering management, and socioeconomic systems engineering.
The group also accepted students in October 2009 through the national entrance examination for a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and from October 2013 for a doctoral student.
The group held the Twelfth International Conference on Industrial Engineering on February 26 and February 27, 2016. The group also publishes the scientific journal Journal of Supply of the International Journal (IJSOM).
The Computer Engineering Department started its activity in 1995 by accepting students in the field of Computer Engineering (Software). After establishing the Faculty of Engineering in 2007, the department left the Faculty of Mathematics and continued its activities in the Faculty of Engineering.
At present, this group of electrical and computer engineering, in addition to a bachelor's degree in software engineering, is called software orientation, master's degree in computer engineering in both artificial intelligence and computer systems architecture, and in the master's degree in electrical engineering.
The laboratories of this group have the research facilities required to conduct applied research in various fields of electrical and computer engineering.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering started its activities in 2012 with the start of the Master of Applied Design Engineering. Also, this group accepted undergraduate students in mechanical engineering through the national entrance exam in October 2014. The laboratories of this group have the research facilities required to conduct applied research in various fields in the field of mechanical engineering.
The laboratories of the Department of Mechanical Engineering include: