Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (AJUMS) is one of the oldest universities in the world whose history dates back to 1700 years ago and its name was taken from Jundishapur city in the northwestern of Khuzestan Province in the Sassanid period. Now, AJUMS has been known as one of the top universities in Iran with seven schools, 662 faculty members, 7529 students in 161 fields of study with different degrees including BSc, MSc, Ph.D., specialized residency, and fellowship.
AJUMS supervises 54 hospitals (public and private), equipped with modern diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. At present, we have achieved great success in health promotion and prevention and treatment of many dangerous diseases. AJUMS supervises 16 health and treatment networks and 19 county health centers. Also, to promote research study, academic members have published 117 books, 11642 papers, and 5808 research projects.
EducationIRAN has been created as, and is to remain, a national entity which will benefit universities and institutes of higher education in the near future. In effect, EducationIRAN is aimed to bring the international interactions of domestic universities together in an effort to present a unified image to the world. Nonetheless, EducationIRAN is not confined to the border of Iran or its international higher education system. This center has envisioned itself as an organization which can contribute to the overall quality of higher education of the surrounding region, especially its immediate neighbors.
All in all, EducationIRAN is a powerhouse comprised by the most dedicated personnel, creative stakeholders and efficient administrators, backed by governmental support, which sole purpose is to improve, develop and expand Iran’s higher education system in its entirety, regardless of being national or international, for, to reach the standards currently in place on the global scale, we must achieve the same level of quality at home