A state university; research on solid propellant combustion in a rocket motor chamber; research on redundancy and reliability of air-to-air missile fuse electronics; research on robust controller design for a missile's yaw-channel; research on reliability and availability of a coastal missile defense system along the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea; research on a remotely piloted vehicle's guidance, navigation, and control computer system.

Has departments of agriculture, architecture and urban planning, economics, engineering, mathematics, natural resources, physical education, psychology, sciences, theology, and veterinary medicine; Alireza Ashouri serves as the university's president; established in 1949.