Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

Alireza Afzalipour and Fakhereh Saba founded Kerman University in 1974. After the Islamic Revolution, the university was called Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman after Dr. Mohammad Javad Bahonar. Ministry of Sciences, Research and Technology considers this university as one of top universities of Iran due to 40 years of educational and research achievements. At the beginning, 25000 sq. meters of space was considered for 5000 students but this space is increased to more than 23,000 sq. meters and 14000 students.Undergraduate students are currently studying in 300 different fields and university also admits graduate and Ph.D. students in 218 fields. Most of Instructors of university have received bursaries to continue their studies and get their Ph.D.’s. Different facilities like the central library, faculties’ libraries, laboratories, and the informatics center together with other outstanding educational activities and also students’ efforts resulted into a huge number of admissions in graduate and Ph.D. levels for this university’s students. Currently, there are 642 faculty members and almost the same number of visiting faculty members, more tan 700 experts and staff in educational and research affairs. Out of 642 faculty members, 62 are full professors, 112 associate professors, 347 assistant professors and 119 are instructors.