• Universities

Dr Abdolali Gola founded the Faculty of Science in 1971, which became the predecessor of Razi University. The university is named after Mohammad bin Zakaria Razi who is one of the great Iranian scholars of the third century. He was considered one of the finest clinical physicians of Islam and the Middle Ages, as well as a man with good morals who often helped those in need.When the university first opened it only had one faculty, the Faculty of Sciences, offering degree programmes in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics. It has since expanded and now has 10 faculties: literature and humanities, agriculture, sport sciences, veterinary medicine, chemistry, science, social sciences, new sciences and technologies, engineering, and management and accounting.In recent years Razi University has become a research centre specialising in the areas of STEM. It has carried out research projects in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, membrane research, nano-science and nanotechnology.The university has developed partnerships with higher education institutions around the world to facilitate academic and scientific exchange. Some of the university’s international partner institutions include the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, the University of Thessali in Greece and the University of Lille in France.The university is situated in Kermanshah, a city in western Iran. Today the city attracts tourists to its cultural sites such as the Achaemanid and Sassanid carvings of Bisotun and Taq-e Bustanis.