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Homs University
جامعة حمص‎
	Faculty of Medicine, Homs University.
Motto	طريقك إلى مستقبل مشرق
Motto in English	Your way to a bright future
Type	Public
Established	14 September 1979
Academic affiliation	UNAI; UNIMED;
President	Abdul Basit al-Khatib
Administrative staff	600
Students	12,000
Location	Homs, Syria
Website	homs-univ.edu.sy

Homs University (Arabic: جامعة حمص‎, ALA-LC: Jāmiʻat Ḥimṣ) is a public university located in the city of Homs, Syria, 180 km north of Damascus. It is Syria's fourth largest university.^[1]

History

The university was established in 1979 as Al-Baath University during Ba'athist rule^[2] by Presidential Decree No. 44 issued by Hafez al-Assad.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2005 the University had 22 faculties, 5 intermediate institutes, 40,000 regular students,^[1] 20,000 students in open learning, 1310 high studies students and 622 faculty members.

As of 2025 Homs University has 10 faculties, 9 colleges, 1 school, 1 preparatory course, 4 intermediate institutes, 2 higher institutes,^[3] around 100,000 students and 1400 faculty members.^[4]

The library contains some 63,000 volumes (as of 2011).^[5]

Following the fall of the Assad regime, the university was renamed to "Homs University" by interim prime minister Mohammed al-Bashir of the Syrian transitional government on 25 December 2024.^[6]

Gallery

The main walkway at the university
The Faculty of Medicine

References

^ ^a ^b Lesch, David W. (2005) The new lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and modern Syria Yale University Press, New Haven Connecticut, page 267, ISBN 0-300-10991-1
^ Collelo, Thomas (editor) (1987) Syria: A Country Study Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. page 123
^ "Colleges and Institutes". Homs University. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
^ "الرئيسية". جامعة حمص (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-01-26.
^ World Guide to Libraries (25th ed.), De Gruyter Saur, 2011
^ "تغيير اسم جامعتي البعث وتشرين بعد سقوط الأسد" (in Arabic). Alhurra. 25 December 2024.