Type Public President Dr. Ali Najafinejad Campus Urban Phone +98 17 3222 0321 Undergraduates 2,178 Postgraduates 1,225 | Established 1957 Students 3,403 Total enrollment 3,403 (2012) Founded 1957 Academic staff 150 | |
Location Gorgan, Golestan Province, Iran Address Gorgan, Golestan Province, Iran Similar Islamic Azad University, Islamic Azad University, Tarbiat Modares University, Isfahan University of Techno, Zabol University | ||
Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, a.k.a. Gorgan University is a university in Golestan Province of Iran.
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History
GUASNR First founded in 1957 as the Junior College of Forestry and Range Management (مدرسه عالي منابع طبيعي گرگان), the university was among the first specialized agricultural universities of Iran. Through a course of continued development, the Junior College was promoted to the school of Natural Resources offering three major courses in Forestry, Range Management and Soil Conservation in 1975. After Islamic revolution, the School of Natural Resources was joined to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in 1981 and became part of the Mazandaran University. In 1986, the school was united with Junior College of Agriculture in the town of Gonbad and obtained an approval from the Council of Academic Development of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, to upgrade to an independent institute called Gorgan University Complex of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. As a result of the hard work of the academic members and administrative staff, Council of Academic Development passed an approval based on which the complex was promoted to the Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (GUASNR) on June 25th, 1992.
Today the university has 9 Colleges (Faculties), training 2800 graduate and post-graduate students. The university has an exchange student program with Astrakhan State University in neighbouring Russia.
The university is located in the historical city of Gorgan in the Golestan Province (formerly the eastern part of Mazandaran province).