University of Mazandaran is a university located in Mazandaran Province of Iran, headquartered in the city of Babolsar.
University of Mazandaran (UMZ), currently the largest state higher education center in the province of Mazandaran, had formerly consisted of a number of tertiary education centers. In 1979 the centers were officially merged to form what is now known as University of Mazandaran. In recent years, UMZ has made significant progress, expanding itself with vision both qualitatively and quantitatively. It presently includes 12 faculties on its campus: Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Sciences, Faculty of Marine and Oceanic Sciences, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, and Faculty of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism.
UMZ has now about 12000 students who are currently studying at undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels and over 400 faculty members teaching and researching at different faculties of the university. Until 2016, more than 15000 students got graduated from different faculties of our university. Based on the policy of the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT), UMZ is committed to providing high quality education, innovative research at undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels leading to scientific and technological achievements.
Mazandaran University, formerly Reza Shah Kabir University, was founded in 1979 by the merging of Babolsar College of Economics and Social Sciences (مدرسه عالي علوم اقتصادي و اجتماعي بابلسر) est. 1970, College of Higher Education (دانشكده تحصيلات تكميلي) est. 1974, Babol Higher Technical School (دانشسراي عالي فني بابل) est. 1969, Sari College of Agriculture (مدرسه عالي كشاورزي ساري) est 1972, Gorgan School of Natural Resources (مدرسه عالي منابع طبيعي گرگان) est. 1957, which later separated off into Gorgan University in 1986.
Harvard University contributed academically, administratively, and to the original design of the predecessor of University of Mazandaran, which at the time was known as "Reza Shah Kabir University" in the 1970s.
The university currently covers an area of 350 hectares, and operates 6 Faculties, offering numerous bachelor's degrees and twenty-six postgraduate programs in M.A, M.Sc and/or Ph.D levels.
Faculty of Architecture & Art
Year of establishment: 2003 * Location: Babolsar City, Main Campus * Faculty members: 28 * Number of students: 754 * Degree Courses: * BA: handicraft arts, architecture, urban development, * MA: Art Research
Faculty of Basic Sciences
Year of establishment: 1977 * Location: Babolsar, Main Campus * Faculty members: 44 * Number of students: 1368 * Degree Courses: - BSc: Cell and Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, Zoological Sciences, Solid State Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Nuclear Physics - MSc: Systematic Biology, Plant Ecology, Animal Physiology, Solid State Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, Astronomy, Cell and Molecular Biology, Microbiology - PhD.: Solid State Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, Astronomy, NANO Physics, Cosmology
Faculty of Chemistry
Year of establishment: 1978 * Location: Babolsar , Main Campus * Faculty members: 29 * Number of students: 869 * Degree Courses: * BSc: Applied Chemistry, and Pure Chemistry * MSc: Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, NANO Sciences and Technology * Ph.D.: Chemistry-Physics: Polymer and Kinetic, Computational Quantum, Electrochemistry Kinetic, Statistical Thermodynamics, Analytical Chemistry, Chemometrics, Electrochemistry, Spectroscopy, Separation, Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry
Faculty of Economics & Administrative Science
Year of establishment: 2004 * Location: Babolsar Pardis Complex * Faculty members: 35 * Number of students: 2570 * Degree Courses: - BA: Accounting, Economic Sciences, Theoretical Economics, Commercial Economics, Business Management, Industrial Management - MA: Accounting, Economic Sciences, Administrative Management, Business Management, Industrial Management - Ph. D.: Islamic Economics, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Econometrics, Development Economics, International Economics, Regional Economics, Statistics and Management, Production and Operation.
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
Year of establishment: 2007 * Location: Babolsar, Main Campus * Faculty members: 24 * Number of students: 1332 * Degree Courses: B.Sc.: IT Engineering, Computer Engineering- Software, Chemical Engineering, and Civil Engineering M.Sc.: Civil Engineering
Faculty of Culture Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism
Year of establishment: 2003 * Location: Babolsar, Main Campus * Degree Courses: BA: Tourism Management, Anthropology
Faculty of Humanity & Social Science
Year of establishment: 1981 * Location: Babolsar, Main Campus * Faculty members: 74 * Number of students: 3006 * Degree Courses: - BA: Geography and Urban planning, English Language and Literature, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Arabic Language and Literature, Persian Language and Literature, Russian Language Translation, Research in Social Sciences, Anthropology, Education, Tourism Management. - MSc: Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Geography and Urban Planning, Physical Geography, Ecotourism, , Arabic Language and Literature, Persian Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Sociology, Youth Studies, Educational Administration and Planning, Philosophy of Education * Ph.D.: Persian Language and Literature, Sociology, Social Issues of Iran, Higher Education Development, Psychology
Faculty of Law & Political Science
Year of establishment: 2005 * Location: Babolsar City, Main Campus * Faculty members: 23 * Number of students: 1029 * Degree Courses: * BA: law * MA: Criminal law, public law, international relations, political sciences * Ph.D.: criminal law and criminology, civil law
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
Year of establishment: 2009 * Location: Babolsar, Main Campus * Faculty members: 29 * Number of students: 998 * Degree Courses: - BSc: Statistics and its Applications, Pure Mathematics Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences, - MSc: Mathematical Statistics, Pure Mathematics, Analysis, Geometry, Applied Mathematics, Research in Operation, Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Computer Sciences, - Ph.D.: Applied Mathematics (Numerical Analysis, Research in Operation), Asymptotic Analysis, Ring and Module, Pure Mathematics (Functional Applied Analysis), Differential Operators, Operators Theory, Algebraic, Graph Theory, Differential Geometric)
Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Sciences
Year of establishment: 2005 * Location: Babolsar, Main Campus * Faculty members: 17 * Number of students: 484 * Degree Courses: - B.Sc.: Physical Education, Exercise Physiology, Sports Management, Sports Biomechanics - M.Sc.: Physical Education, Exercise Physiology, Sports Management, Sports Biomechanics - Ph.D.: Exercise Physiology, Sports Management, Sports Biomechanics
Faculty of Theological Science
This faculty first was established in 1970 as the Technical Teachers Training Institute of Babol. In 1979 it amalgamated with the University of Mazandaran and operated as University of Mazandaran Faculty of Engineering. In 2005, the process of independence from University of Mazandaran started and until March 2008 it was operated as Noshirvani Institute of Technology (Babol Noshiravani Technical and Education Complex). The graduated student of Mazandaran University in Engineering until 2012 were studied in Babol Babol Noshiravani Technical and Education Complex. Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
Year of establishment: 2007
Location: Babolsar, Main Campus
Faculty members: 24 * Number of students: 1332 * Degree Courses: B.Sc.: IT Engineering, Computer Engineering- Software, Chemical Engineering, and Civil Engineering M.Sc.: Civil Engineering
Faculty of Marine & Oceanic Sciences
Year of Establishment: 2002 Location: Babolsar, Main Campus Faculty Members: 5 Number of Students: 46 Degree Courses: MSc: Marine Chemistry, Marine Biology, Marine Physics
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