Stepping into the third millennium characterized by its explosion of technologies daily face new challenges. All of them require prompt action from national and gold policy makers. Islamic Azad University as stake holders in the field of higher education, universities has a strong obligation to shoulder the burden arising from this new era of the acknowledge society. Taking this fact into consideration, the IAU is proud to respond to the ever increasing demands of endeavoring to broaden their tertiary education. It operates on the principle of progress and advancement of education. Sciences and technologies through are attracting and training of students both domestically and abroad. The Islamic Azad University has 25 years of outstanding progress in training technologically skilled, specialized manpower that provide the needed to expertise required by the domestic labor market. During the period, our more than 1,800,000 graduates eloquently define our mission in higher education sector.

IAU is an Iranian non-profit, non-governmental system of higher education founded in 1982 in response to an increasing social demand for specialized manpower and development. IAU is biggest university in all over the world with more than 1,300,000 students. IAU is a dynamic and fast-growing university and its steady expansion is mirrored in the broad range and increased number of its undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses. Under five disciplines, IAU offers 799 study courses in over 330 campuses in and out of the country. IAU has taken place in some country out of Iran such as U.A.E (Dubai), England (Oxford), Tanzania (Zangbar Darussalam), Lebanon (Beirut), Armenia (Erivan). Launching campuses in Afghanistan and Tajikistan already has started and also it plans for launching new campuses in Canada and Malaysia.