Razi University

                                                                                                                                                                                Background
Razi University started its activity as the Faculty of Science, by the late Dr. Abdul Ali Goya in the city of Kermanshah, which is one of the country's cool weather zones in the west of country. The center was renamed Razi University in 1353  and at the beginning of the academic year 1971-1973, the Faculty of Sciences began its activities with the admission of 200 students in four majors including physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. After the glorious Islamic Revolution and considering the transcendental goals of the revolution, the socio-cultural development of the deprived areas was promoted by the establishment of the Teacher Training Faculty of Sanandaj and the Ilam Faculty of Animal Husbandry. In 1991, the Sanandaj Faculty of Teacher Training, and the Ilam Faculty of Animal Husbandry, separated from the University of Razi and integrated into Kurdistan University and Ilam University respectively.

Razi University currently has 10 faculties and campuses in agriculture and natural resources and utilizes 10 specialist professors, 49 associate professors, 250 assistant professors, 46 instructors, and a total of 355 faculty members in 39 educational groups and 12347 students in four levels of Associate degree, Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D.

                                                                             
Dr. Abdolali Goya was born in Qom in 1921 BC. But in the very first years of his life, he moved to Kermanshah with his family and settled there. He completed his elementary and secondary education in this city and in 1938, after obtaining a secondary school diploma in mathematics, he went to Tehran to continue his education and received his degree in physics and chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Tehran.

In 1941, he was awarded a bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry and then went to Hamedan to teach. After three years of teaching in Hamadan, he returned to Tehran and in addition to teaching in high schools in Tehran and several colleges and universities, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in law in 1947, as well as a Master's degree in physics. He, then, travelled to France in 1960 to pursue his higher education and returned to Tehran after getting a doctorate degree in mathematical physics in 1963.

After returning to Tehran, he started teaching physics at the Faculties of Science and Medical Sciences at Mashhad University and astronomy and physics at the Faculty of Theology. His method of teaching at the Faculty of Theology was such that he always moved from the astronomy and physics to religious discussions which were completely new and the students of the time at the Faculty of Theology still remember the memories of that time after many years.

In 1971, he missioned to set up the faculty of science and several other faculties in Kermanshah (his home city), therefore, he should be called the founder of Razi University.

In 1979, due to his long-standing religious background in Tehran, Mashhad and Kermanshah, after the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, he was appointed to the management of the National Library and Museum of Malek in Tehran by the official authority of Astan Quds Razavi, And finally, he passed away on October 9, 1995.