Al-Beroni University
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About
Alberoni University (AU; Dari: دانشگاه البیرونی; Pashto: د البیروني پوهنتون) is located in the small town of Kohistan (population range of under 2,500 inhabitants), Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, about 70 km north of the capital Kabul. Alberoni University is a public institute of higher education, and was inaugurated in 1998 by the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education,Alberoni University (AU) is a very small (uniRank enrollment range: 1000-1999 students) coeducational Afghan higher education institution. The university is named after Abu Rayhan Alberuni, a renowned polymath scholar who lived in the 11th century. Alberoni University (AU) 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.
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