[4] The university has a multilingual website (Persian, English, Pashto, Spanish, Arabic, French and Turkish).

[citation needed] The academic activities of the University of Birjand began in 1989 with the admission of students for an associate degree in electronics.

After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the university cooperated with the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to implement higher education programs in accordance with the principles set by the Cultural Revolution Committee for Universities.

It is now home to more than 12,000 students studying in more than 330 graduate and undergraduate programs with more than 360 full-time and many other part-time faculty.

The Faculty of Agriculture and the Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies are located in Amirabad Site (Amirabad Campus, with a total area of 206 hectares and a total building area of 23,900 m2) in the west of the city.