Herat University Rankings
| Ranking | Category |
|---|---|
| #9918 of 14,131 | In the World |
| #3966 of 5,830 | In Asia |
| #4 of 87 | In Afghanistan |
| #1 of 4 | In Herat |
Quick Review
- Type
- Non-profit
- Funding
- Public-private
partnership - Highest Degree
- Bachelor
- Website
- hu.edu.af
- Languages
- Dari
- Acceptance rate
- 50%*
* Herat University is among the institutions that don't provide data on acceptance rates. This might happen because the university has programs where applicants only need to meet admission requirements to enroll and don't necessarily compete with others.
We estimate the above acceptance rate based on admission statistics of closely ranked nearby universities with similar research profiles that do publish such data.
Acceptance rate & Admissions
| Admissions Requirements | Secondary school certificate (baccalaureate) or equivalent |
|---|---|
| Academic Calendar | Semesters |
Programs and Degrees
The table below displays academic fields with programs and courses that lead to Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees offered by Herat University.
Note that the table provides a general overview and might not cover all the specific majors available at the university. Always visit the university's website for the most up-to-date information on the programs offered.
| Programs | Bachelor | Master | Doctoral |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art & Design | Yes | Yes | No |
| Biology | Yes | Yes | No |
| Business | Yes | Yes | No |
| Chemistry | Yes | Yes | No |
| Computer Science | Yes | Yes | No |
| Economics | Yes | Yes | No |
| Engineering | Yes | Yes | No |
| Environmental Science | Yes | Yes | No |
| Liberal Arts & Social Sciences | Yes | Yes | No |
| Mathematics | Yes | Yes | No |
| Medicine | Yes | Yes | No |
| Physics | Yes | Yes | No |
| Psychology | Yes | Yes | No |
| Bachelor's Degree | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Arabic, Arts and Humanities, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Fine Arts, Islamic Law, Islamic Theology, Journalism, Law, Literature, Management, Medicine, Modern Languages, Natural Sciences, Political Sciences, Public Administration, Social Sciences, Stomatology, Theology, Veterinary Science |
|---|---|
| Master's Degree | Business Administration, Literature |
Notable alumni
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Roya Mahboob
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Roya Mahboob is an Afghan businesswoman and entrepreneur. She founded and serves as CEO of the Afghan Citadel Software Company, a full-service software development company based in Herat, Afghanistan. She has received attention for being among the first IT female CEOs in Afghanistan, where it is still relatively rare for women to work outside the home. On 18 April 2013, Roya Mahboob was named to TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2013 for her work in building internet classrooms in high schools in Afghanistan and for Women's Annex, a multilingual blog and video site hosted by Film Annex. This was the 10th anniversary of the TIME special edition. The Women's Annex platform give the women of Afghanistan and Central Asia a platform to tell their stories to the world. The TIME magazine introduction to Roya Mahboob was written by Sheryl Sandberg who is the chief operating officer of Facebook and the author of "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead". U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Roya Mahboob and other Afghan women entrepreneurs at the International Center for Women's Economic Development at the American University of Afghanistan. She is also known for her work with online film distribution platform and Web Television Network Film Annex on the Afghan Development Project. She is a current advisor at the Forbes School of Business & Technology.
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Roya Sadat
- Occupations
- film directorfilmmakerscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
-
Roya Sadat is an Afghan film producer and director. She was the first woman director in the history of Afghan cinema in the post-Taliban era, and ventured into making feature films and documentaries on the theme of injustice and restrictions imposed on women. Following the fall of the Taliban regime in the country, she made her debut feature film Three Dots. For this film she received six of nine awards which included as best director and best film. In 2003,A Letter to the President her most famous film that received many international awards, she and her sister Alka Sadat established the Roya Film House and under this banner produced more than 30 documentaries and feature films and TV series. She is now involved to direct the opera of A Thousand Splendid Suns for the Seattle Opera and she is during pre production of her 2nd feature film Forgotten History.
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Faramarz Tamanna
- Occupations
- director generalpolitician
- Biography
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Dr. Faramarz Tamanna is a university professor, writer, an Afghan politician and the chancellor of the University of Afghanistan in Kabul. He was Director General of the Center for Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan). He holds his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India) in International Studies.
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Laleh Osmany
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Laleh Osmany is a women's rights activist from Afghanistan, who founded the social media #WhereIsMyName campaign which opposes the tradition that women's names were not used publicly in Afghanistan. For her work she was recognised on the BBC's 100 Women Awards in 2020.
Herat University faculties and divisions
| Faculty : Agriculture | Agriculture, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry |
|---|---|
| Faculty : Art | Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, Writing |
| Faculty : Computer Science | Computer Networks, Computer Science |
| Faculty : Economics | Economics, Management |
| Faculty : Education | Education |
| Faculty : Engineering | Civil Engineering, Engineering |
| Faculty : Journalism | Journalism |
| Faculty : Law and Political Sciences | Law, Political Sciences |
| Faculty : Literature | Arabic, Asian Studies, English, German, International Relations and Diplomacy, Literature, Modern Languages |
| Faculty : Medical Studies | Medicine |
| Faculty : Public Administration | Public Administration |
| Faculty : Science | Natural Sciences |
| Faculty : Social Science | Social Sciences |
| Faculty : Stomatology | Stomatology |
| Faculty : Theology | Islamic Law, Islamic Theology, Theology |
| Faculty : Veterinary Medicine | Veterinary Science |
General information
| Alternative names | HU دانشگاه هرات |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1988 |
| Accreditation | Ministry of Higher Education |
| Colors | black, red, green |
Location and contacts
| Address | District 5 Herat, Herat Province Afghanistan |
|---|---|
| City population | 556,000 |