It has six campuses, seven schools, more than 14,000 students, and research centers including Microelectronic, Antenna and Microwave Laboratory, Nanotechnology, MEMS, and Artemia.

[3][4] The website of Urmia University credits attempts of Cochran for "lowering the infant mortality rate in the region".

[1] Two princes of the Qajar dynasty visited the Westminster Medical College, Mozafar-ad-Din in the winter of 1890; and Naser-ad-Din Shah.

[1] The certificates of the graduates from Westminster Medical College were jointly signed by Cochran and King Mozaffar-edin Shah.

[1][5][6] American doctors Laura McComb Muller and Wilder P. Ellis joined Packard, prior to the closure of the school.

[1] The office of Joseph Plume Cochran and his medical college within the wooden building are preserved in the city campus of Urmia University.

The formal foundation for current Urmia University was laid in 1965 when the Agricultural College of Rezaeiye was established.

An agreement was signed between the Iranian government and the Near East Foundation in the United States to establish a four-year program.

As part of the Iranian Ministry of Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences detached itself from the main school in 1985.