Al-Beroni University(Persian: دانشگاه البیرونی‎‎ / Pashto: د البیروني پوهنتون‎) is located in Kohistan, one of District of Kapisa Province, in central Afghanistan, about 64 km far away from the capital Kabul. Alberoni University is a public institute of higher education, and was inaugurated in 1998 by the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education.The university is named after Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a renowned polymath scholar who lived in 11th century Khorasan. The AU beginning with a faculty of Medical and Engineering. It is the fifth largest university in Afghanistan after Kabul University, Nangarhar University, Balkh University and Herat University . The university has 9 faculties and 32 departments. The most popular field of study is Medical and Engineering.