Key facts
- Motto
- Excellence in Service to Afghanistan
- Established
- November 1932 (93 years ago) ( 1932-11 )
- Chancellor
- Osama Aziz
- Students
- 22,000
- Location
- Kabul , Afghanistan
- Sports nickname
- KU
- Website
- www .ku .edu .af
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Education
- Founded
- 1932
- Location
- Kabul, Afghanistan
- Also known as
- KU
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.442864.8 · ISNI 0000 0001 1181 4542
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- university
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Located in
- Kabul
- Elevation
- 1821
- Headquarters
- Kabul
- Official website
- www.ku.edu.af/dr
- Image
- 1950s Afghanistan - Biology class, Kabul University.jpg
- Students count
- 22000
- Motto
- L'excellence au service de l'Afghanistan
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- category for employees of the organization
- Category:Academic staff of Kabul University
- Commons category
- Kabul University
- topic's main category
- Category:Kabul University
- inception
- 1931-00-00
- category for alumni of educational institution
- Category:Kabul University alumni
- P12749
- Zimella
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Encyclopedic overview
Kabul University (KU; د کابل پوهنتون/ دانشگاه کابل) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd District of the capital Kabul near the Ministry of Higher Education. It was founded in 1931 by King Mohammed Nadir Shah, whose prime minister at the time was his younger brother, Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan. Approximately 22,000 students attend Kabul University. In August 2021, before the Taliban takeover, nearly half were female.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kabul University” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.