Al-Beroni University
Alberoni University is located in the small town of Kohistan, Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, about 64 km north of the capital Kabul. Al beroni University is a public institute of higher education, and was inaugurated in 1998 by the Ministry of Higher [Education (Afghanistan)|Afghan Ministry of Higher Education], Al Beroni University is a very small coeducational Afghan higher education institution. The university is named after Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a renowned polymath scholar who lived in the 11th century. Al Beroni University offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees in several areas of study. The AU beginning with a faculty of Medical and Engineering. It is the fifth largest university in Afghanistan after Kabul University, Nangarhar University, Balkh University and Herat University. The university has 9 faculties and 32 departments. The most popular fields of study is law, medicine and engineering.
Dr. Abu Najam Niazi is tenth and current chancellor of university.
Faculties and Departments
Alberoni University has 9 faculties and 32 departments, the students are studying in different faculties and different fields. Right now Alberoni University has 147 faculty members and 4682 students.Alberoni University faculties
1. Faculty of Medical
- Departments:
- # Department of General Medicine
- # Department of General Surgery
- # Department of Para-clinic
- Departments:
- # Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- # Department of Civil Engineering
- Departments:
- # Department of Mathematics
- # Department of Physics
- # Department of Chemistry
- # Department of History
- # Department of Geography
- # Department of Islamic Studies
- # Department of Biology
- 4. Faculty of Economics
- Departments:
- # Department of International Relations
- # Department of Public Law
- # Department of Private Law
- # Department of Criminal Law
- Departments:
- # Department of Farsi Language
- # Department of Pashto Language
- # Department of English Language
- # Department of Arabic Language
- Departments:
- # Department of Press
- # Department of Radio & TV
- # Department of Horticulture Sciences
- # Department of Agriculture Economics
- # Department of Plant Sciences
- # Department of Animal Sciences]
Students statistics in 2015
Alberoni University has 9 faculties with about 32 Departments. AU has a campus, buildings for its 3 faculties, laboratories for Medical, Engineering and Education faculties, libraries, lecture rooms and lecturers.Notable people
- Abdul Malik Hamwar, ex-minister of Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development from December 2001 - July 2002.
Controversy over Chancellor of University Selection
According to Civil Higher Education Law of Afghanistan which published in Official Gazette No. 1195 on November 11, 2015 The head of the institute of higher education in Afghanistan should be selected from high academic rank members of faculty of the institute, if they have the academic rank of professor, professor, etc.through free, secret and direct elections to the majority of vote of academic members of that institute of higher education for a period of three years. However, since 2001 it is selected by President of Afghanistan.
In 2021, the chancellor of Al-Biruni University resigned from his position due to threats from Taliban fighters. He previously sent a complaint letter about the threatening behavior of the representative Abdul Baqi Haqqani to Ministry of Higher Education.