Yazd University

Yazd University (YU, Persian: دانشگاه یزد, Daneshgah-e Yazd) is a public research university in Yazd, Iran. It is a major state-funded research center in central Iran and the academic center of Yazd province and was the first comprehensive institute of higher education established after the 1979 Islamic revolution. It is also the principal heir to the former University College Yazd (Persian: دانشسرای عالی یزد). Yazd University is considered to be among the top 10 comprehensive universities in Iran and it is among 200 best world's young universities. The university was founded in 1989 by a merger of several older institutions and grew rapidly over the years. Its main campus is located in Safaeeyeh. There are four other campuses and two autonomous schools, all located within or in the vicinity of the city of Yazd.

Yazd University offers BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in more than 40 fields through its 29 departments and is home to more than 14,000 students. Yazd University was one of the main centers of the nationwide uprising in universities that started in September 1401 and continued until the end of November, and the students showed their protest to the authorities and institutions of the country with various civil activities and demanded freedom. Students were imprisoned completely illegally. During this uprising, many university students constantly received threatening messages from the repression apparatus Also, these protests led to the attack of repressive institutions on student dormitories, the expulsion and suspension of more than 800 students of Yazd University in an illegal move.