{{short description|Public university in Isfahan, Iran}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox university | image = University of Isfahan Logo.png | name = University of Isfahan | native_name = {{unbulleted list |{{lang|fa|{{nastaliq|دانشگاه اصفهان}}}}<br />Dāneshgāh-e Esfāhān}} | native_name_lang = fa | established = 1946 | type = Public | endowment = US$ 35.14 million<br><small>(20 September 2014)</small><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mehrnews.com/news/2191275/جدول-بودجه-42-دانشگاه-کشور-کمترین-و-بیشترین-بودجه-ها-از-آن-کدام|title=جدول بودجه ۴۲ دانشگاه کشور/ کمترین و بیشترین بودجه‌ها از آن کدام دانشگاه‌ها شد|date=9 December 2013|website=خبرگزاری مهر &#124; اخبار ایران و جهان &#124; Mehr News Agency}}</ref> | city = Isfahan | state = Isfahan province | country = Iran | president = Rasool Roknizadeh| | faculty = 650 | campus = Urban (652 acres) | enrollment = 18,000 | free_label = Athletics | free = 10 teams | website = [http://www.ui.ac.ir/ www.ui.ac.ir] }}

The '''University of Isfahan''' ('''UI''') ({{langx|fa|دانشگاه اصفهان|Dāneshgāh-e Esfahān}}) is a state-operated university located in Isfahan, Iran. The university is located on Azadi square of Isfahan. It has another campus in Khansar. University of Isfahan offers undergraduate degrees in 71 fields, graduate degrees in 185 fields and postgraduate in 119 fields.

== History == The University of Isfahan was built in 1946. The decision to establish the university was an idea developed by a number of doctors at Amin Hospital in 1939. Eventually, the board of directors of the hospital approved a plan to establish Isfahan Higher Medical Institute in 1946. In September of the same year, an ad signed by lecturer Dr. Jelveh, then caretaker of Isfahan Province Health and Medical Treatment Department, was published in local newspapers calling on prospective students to enroll in the new institute. The first classes were held at Sadi High School (now Soureh Institute). The first classes took place on 29 October 1950. Medical sciences were split off into a separate school, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, in 1985.

== Faculties == As of 2020, the university had fourteen faculties which were:<ref name="auto2">{{cite web |url=https://ui.ac.ir/Index.aspx?tempname=engmain&lang=2&sub=0 |title=University of Isfahan |publisher=Ui.ac.ir |access-date=2020-05-26 |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022155446/https://ui.ac.ir/Index.aspx?tempname=engmain |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics * Faculty of Biological Science and Technology * Faculty of Chemistry * Faculty of Civil Engineering and Transportation * Faculty of Computer Engineering * Faculty of Education and Psychology * Faculty of Engineering * Faculty of Foreign Languages * Faculty of Geographical Sciences and Planning * Faculty of Literature and Humanities * Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics * Faculty of Physics * Faculty of Sport Sciences * Faculty of Theology and Ahl Al-Bayt (Prophet's Descendants) Studies

== Presidents ==

{| class="wikitable" |- ! President ! Tenure |- | Mehdi Namdar || 1958–1961 |- | Mohammad Riahi || 1961–1962 |- | Qasem Motamedi || 1967–1976 |- | Mohammad Ali Tusi || 1977–1979 |- | Gholamabbas Tavassoli || 1979–1980 |- | Mohammad Ali Shahzamanian || 1980–1981 |- | Akbar Shah Mohammadi || 1981–1982 |- | Seyed Morteza Saghaiannejad || 1982–1985 |- | Hassan Razmjoo || 1985–1997 |- | Hooshang Talebi || 1997–2005 |- | Mohammad Hossein Ramasht || 2005–2013 |- | Hooshang Talebi || 2013–2021 |- | Hossein Harsij || 2021–2025 |- | rasull roknizade || 2025–present <ref>{{cite web|url=https://admin.ui.ac.ir/Index.aspx?page_=form&lang=1&sub=60&tempname=PresidencyMain&PageID=15768&isPopUp=False|title=روءساي گذشته تاكنون|website=admin.ui.ac.ir|access-date=11 October 2022|archive-date=24 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024164419/https://admin.ui.ac.ir/Index.aspx?page_=form&lang=1&sub=60&tempname=PresidencyMain&PageID=15768&isPopUp=False|url-status=dead}}</ref> |}

== Emblem == The university's logo was designed by Dr. Hossein Yaghini in 1968 by order of Dr. Motamedi, the president of the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ui2.ui.ac.ir/Index.aspx?page_=form&lang=1&sub=0&tempname=isfuni&PageID=15085&isPopUp=False|title=نشان واره دانشگاه (آرم)|website=ui2.ui.ac.ir|access-date=11 October 2022|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202141119/http://ui2.ui.ac.ir/Index.aspx?page_=form&lang=1&sub=0&tempname=isfuni&PageID=15085&isPopUp=False|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== International rankings == {{Infobox university rankings | CWTS_W = 765 | CWTS_W_ref = <ref name="auto3">{{cite web|url=http://www.leidenranking.com/|title=CWTS Leiden Ranking|first=Centre for Science and Technology|last=Studies (CWTS)|website=CWTS Leiden Ranking}}</ref> | THE_W = 801–1000 | THE_W_ref = <ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-isfahan|title=University of Isfahan|date=23 March 2020|website=Times Higher Education (THE)}}</ref>| USNWR_W_ref = <ref name="auto1">{{cite web | title=See Where University of Isfahan Ranks Among the World's Best Universities | website=U.S. News & World Report | date=2017-08-11 | url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-isfahan-529204 | access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref> |QS_Asia==288|QS_Asia_ref=<ref name="topuniasia">{{Cite web |title=QS Asia University Rankings 2025 – Overall |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/asia-university-rankings?items_per_page=150 |access-date=15 March 2025 |website=Top Universities |language=en }}</ref>|QS_Asia_year=2025}}

'''CWTS Leiden Ranking''':<ref name="auto3"/><br /> '''2019''': (P indicator): 765<br /> '''2018''': (P indicator): 776<br /> '''2017''': (P indicator): 797

'''Times Higher Education World University Rankings''':<ref name="auto"/><br /> '''2021''': 801–1,000<br />'''2020''': 801–1,000<br /> '''2019''': 801–1,000<br />

* Business and management: 584 * Chemistry: 692 * Engineering ranking: 598

== Notable alumni == * Nusrat Bhutto, former First Lady of Pakistan. * Farideh Firoozbakht, a mathematician. * Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran. * Ata'ollah Mohajerani, former minister of culture of Iran. * Houshang Golshiri, Fiction writer, critic and editor * Hrant Markarian, head of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. * Fatemeh Shayan, Political Scientist and winner of the 10 International Farabi Award

== See also == *List of Islamic educational institutions *Higher Education in Iran *Isfahan University of Technology *Isfahan University of Medical Sciences *Mohajer Technical University of Isfahan, Isfahan

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{official website|http://www.ui.ac.ir/}}

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