IAUN was established in January, 1985 with the aim of training professionals needed for high scientific positions.

With over twenty five years of service, this university is now one of the most prominent centers in Isfahan Province and one of the most distinguished ones in higher education in Iran, and with its precise and professional management in a 20-year strategic framework in different research, scientific, cultural and educational fields, it has gained a lot of domestic and foreign recognition, among which one can refer to gaining the Gold Medal of Quality Management in the Century based on the QC100 standard from the BID International Institute in Madrid, Spain in 2013 with 118 countries voting for it.

[18] Source:[2] IAUN is pioneer in representing itself in social networking websites among other higher educational institutes in Iran since there has been restrictions from the government for such institutions not to have any presence in foreign social networking websites.

However, IAUN is the first university in Iran having an official page in social networking websites.

Starting from early January 2014, the university announced using Instagram as the first social networking website to have an official page on.