Herat University Rankings

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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 RequirementsSecondary school certificate (baccalaureate) or equivalent
Academic CalendarSemesters

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

  1. Roya Mahboob

    Roya Mahboob
    Born in
    Afghanistan Flag Afghanistan
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Occupations
    entrepreneur
    Biography

    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.

  2. Roya Sadat

    Roya Sadat
    Born in
    Afghanistan Flag Afghanistan
    Years
    1983-.. (age 41)
    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.

  3. Faramarz Tamanna

    Faramarz Tamanna
    Born in
    Afghanistan Flag Afghanistan
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    director generalpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  4. Laleh Osmany

    Laleh Osmany
    Years
    1992-.. (age 32)
    Occupations
    activist
    Biography

    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

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