Homs University (Arabic: جامعة حمص‎, ALA-LC: Jāmiʻat Ḥimṣ), founded in 1979 as Al-Baath University during Ba'athist rule,[1] is a public university located in the city of Homs, Syria, 180 km north of Damascus. It is Syria's fourth largest university.[2]

Homs University
جامعة حمص‎
Faculty of Medicine, Homs University.
Mottoطريقك إلى مستقبل مشرق
Motto in English
Your way to a bright future
TypePublic
Established14 September 1979
Academic affiliation
PresidentAbdul Basit al-Khatib
Administrative staff
600
Students12,000
Location,
Websitealbaath-univ.edu.sy

History

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The university was established in 1979 as Al-Baath University (Arabic: جَامِعَة الْبَعْث, ALA-LC: Jāmiʻat al-Baʻth); it was established by Presidential Decree No. 44 issued by Hafez al-Assad.[citation needed]

Al-Baath University has 22 faculties, 5 intermediate institutes, 40,000 regular students,[2] 20,000 students in open learning, 1310 high studies students and 622 faculty members. The library contains some 63,000 volumes (as of 2011).[3]

Following the fall of the Assad regime, the university was renamed to "Homs University" by interim prime minister Mohammed al-Bashir of the Syrian transitional government on 25 December 2024.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ Collelo, Thomas (editor) (1987) Syria: A Country Study Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. page 123
  2. ^ a b Lesch, David W. (2005) The new lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and modern Syria Yale University Press, New Haven Connecticut, page 267, ISBN 0-300-10991-1
  3. ^ World Guide to Libraries (25th ed.), De Gruyter Saur, 2011
  4. ^ "تغيير اسم جامعتي البعث وتشرين بعد سقوط الأسد" (in Arabic). Alhurra. 25 December 2024.
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