# University of Qom

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University of Qom (Persian: دانشگاه قم) is an Iranian public university located in Qom.
Following an endorsement by the Council of the Islamic Revolution and under the supervision of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, the University of Qom was founded in 1980 (1358 SH) under the name of High Educational and Legal School of the Seminarians of Qom by Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Javad Bahonar, and Mehdi Ghazi Khorramabadi. It is an academic center in the field of legal studies. In 1985 (1364 SH), following confirmation by the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, the school admitted students from high school graduates, too. In 1997 (1376 SH), the university got its current name.
The university has an area of 140 ha and consists of 6 faculties, 7 research and technology centers, 10 research groups, 33 academic departments, and 164 academic fields. It also has about 10,000 students (in Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. degrees) and 282 members of academic staff: 12 full professors, 90 associate professors, 160 assistant professors, and 20 instructors. Some of them are regarded as national genius figures. Most of the university's activities are in the fields of civil engineering, IT and computer engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering and laws.
This university has its own dress code; female students have to wear Arabic tent which they refer to as "Chador". This university is gender segregated.

## Faculties & departments

Currently, the University of Qom consists of the following faculties and departments:

### Faculty of Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering was established in 2003 as the first center of engineering fields in Qom Province.
Currently, this faculty consists of these departments:
* Department of Civil Engineering
* Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology
* Department of Industrial Engineering
* Department of Mechanical Engineering
* Department of Architectural Engineering
* Department of Electrical Engineering
* Department of Chemical Engineering

### Faculty of Basic Sciences

Four years after the establishment of physics and mathematics fields at the undergraduate level, the Faculty of Basic Sciences was established.
Currently, this faculty consists of these departments:
* Department of Physics
* Department of Mathematics
* Department of Chemistry
* Department of Statistics
* Department of Biology
* Department of Computer Science

### Faculty of Management and Economics

The Faculty of Management and Economics was established in 2011 as an independent faculty in Qom University.
Currently, this faculty consists of these departments:
* Department of Business Management
* Department of Industrial Management
* Department of Accounting
* Department of Economics

### Faculty of Literature and Humanities

The Faculty of Literature and Humanities started its activities in 2001.
Currently, this faculty consists of these departments:
* Department of Persian Language and Literature
* Department of English Language and Literature
* Department of Arabic Language and Literature
* Department of Educational Sciences
* Department of Physical Education
* Department of Information Sciences and Knowledge Studies

### Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law; currently, law education at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels are available in various areas of interest at this faculty.
Currently, this faculty consists of these departments:
* Department of International and Public Law
* Department of Private Law
* Department of Intellectual Property Law
* Department of Criminology and Criminal Law

### Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies

The administrative organization of the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies and its four departments was officially established in 2001.
Currently, this faculty consists of these departments:
* Department of Quran and Hadith Sciences
* Department of Jurisprudence and the Concept of Law
* Department of Philosophy of Ethics
* Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology
* Department of Islamic Studies
* Department of Shia studies

## University of Qom students' social network

University of Qom students' social network is a website that enables users to chat, send and read text and share their images and videos.

## Ranking

* Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
** Global university 2890
** Asia university 1003
** Middle East university 207
** International University 66th
* Unirank
** Global University 4926
** International University 72
* scimago
** Global University 547th (1852th)
** International University 30th

## Notable alumni

* Ammar al-Hakim (Arabic: سید عمار الحكيم‎), Iraqi cleric and politician who led the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq from 2009 to 2017
* Dhiyaa Al-Musawi, born in Bahrain 1970, politician, author, writer, and former cleric
* Mohammad Arab-Salehi born 1963, philosopher and associate professor of religion
* Seyyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani, born 1960, philosopher and professor of ethics
* Sayed Muhammad Hassan Sharifi Balkhabi (Dari: سید محمد حسن شریفی بلخابی), politician
* Mohsen Kadivar, visiting scholar at Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School in 2002, visiting professor of Islamic studies at the University of Virginia (2008–2009), and at Duke University (fall 2009 – spring 2014), who held the fall 2014 Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently a research professor of Islamic Studies in the department of religious studies at Duke University
* Mansour Leghaei, born 1962, the founder and a director of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre and the School of Islamic Theology in Earlwood, Australia
* Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (Persian: حمید نادری یگانه), born 1990, mathematical artist and digital artist