The Faculty of Basic Sciences started admitting students right after the establishment of the university in 1976 and started its activities in a rented building as an educational institution. In June 6^th 1976, construction and foundation work of the university was started. The premises of the faculty are one of the oldest buildings of the university which has an especial architecture and technical engineering structure and is considered a unique building by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

With the development of the university, the Central Organization, and faculties of Literature, Economics and Social Sciences were gradually separated from the premises. Currently faculties of Basic Sciences and Chemistry are located in this building and in near future the Faculty of Chemistry will be moved to another building, the construction of which is soon to be completed. It must be noted that the department of Chemistry was one of the departments of the Faculty of Basic Sciences which succeeded at establishing a separate faculty in 2006.

Currently this faculty is the biggest faculty of Bu-Ali Sina University and admits students at B.A, M.A and PhD. levels and has 65 faculty members. 1857 students are currently studying in this faculty, 478 of whom are at M.A level and 121 are at PhD. level.

Management body of the faculty consists of a dean, deputy deans of Research and Education, and director of higher education. There are 5 departments in this faculty at the moment:

Biology

Geology

Physics

Mathematics

Statistics

Each department is run by a head of department which is suggested by the dean of the faculty and approved by the chancellor of the university.