Bamyan University

Bamyan University was initiated around 1994 with the support of the Hazara political party Hezb-i-Wahdat.

Before the Taliban takeover of the area, there were 400-500 male and female students at Bamyan University, under 40 professors.

[2] Under the American and New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Teams, the university was refurbished and reopened in 2004 with admission of 97 male and female students; the academic staff was 40 with a majority holding a master's degree.

[4] Construction was, at one point, delayed due to the need to clear landmines, leading to student protests.

[5] A number of Afghans who had taken refuge in Iran returned to Bamyan; of that group several female intellectuals became lecturers at the university.

"Local leader lays the cornerstone for a Bamyan University dorm during the University’s inauguration, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, August 2008." Photo by Kent Morris (NAS Kabul) ^{[

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