The Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch , also known as the University of Najafabad, is an independent comprehensive branch of the Islamic Azad University system, located in Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran. IAUN was established in January, 1985 with the aim of training professionals needed for high scientific positions. This university boasts of 29 years of service educating 26,000 university students in 250 different majors in Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. programs. It has been able to train 73,793 graduates including 1,340 Ph.D. and 6,500 M.A. graduates. The total number of the full-time, part-time and adjunct professors in this university is above 1,500. With over twenty five years of service, this university is now one of the most prominent centers in Isfahan Province and one of the most distinguished ones in higher education in Iran, and with its precise and professional management in a 20-year strategic framework in different research, scientific, cultural and educational fields, it has gained a lot of domestic and foreign recognition, among which one can refer to gaining the Gold Medal of Quality Management in the Century based on the QC100 standard from the BID International Institute in Madrid, Spain in 2013 with 118 countries voting for it. This university was introduced as the first independent branch of the Islamic Azad University and appointed as an independent comprehensive university with the total score of 5951.68.
The total gardening and agricultural area of 10,782,257 square meters
The first rank in having the most land and building possession in the country
The ratio of 1 student to 16 square meters of educational space
17 sports complexes with the total area of 60,857 square meters in the following fields: body building, karate, gymnastics, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, futsal, basketball, volleyball, ping-pong, zurkhaneh, chess, handball, badminton, fitness program, judo, taekwondo, indoor swimming pool and indoor and outdoor fields for: soccer, track and field, basketball, volleyball and futsal
9 dormitories for male and female students with the total area of 31,830 square meters
3 mosques with the total area of 4,000 square meters
8 meeting and conference halls seating 5,000 people
11 faculties with the total area of 84,864 square meters
The largest academic library in Iran with the total area of 34,764.15 square meters in 8 floors
A five-story hospital located in Isfahan, Iran with the total area of 2,937.77 square meters
249 university majors in Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. programs
85,545 alumni in associate degree, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. programs
487 full-time and part-time faculty board members
Academics
Academic campus
IAUN campus is the largest university campus in the Middle East located in Najafabad, Isfahan, occupying about in the city of Najafabad in the pleasant touristic province of Isfahan. The largest academic library of Iran is located on this campus.
IAUN is pioneer in representing itself in social networking websites among other higher educational institutes in Iran since there has been restrictions from the government for such institutions not to have any presence in foreign social networking websites. However, IAUN is the first university in Iran having an official page in social networking websites. Starting from early January 2014, the university announced using Instagram as the first social networking website to have an official page on.
