The Law Department was established in 1993 with the aim of working and training the human resources needed for regional and national law at the Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. In the following year, political disciplines were also established in 78 subjects of educational and research activities and human resources training in this field, and specialists in the fields of law and science are independent sciences. In 2014, the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences was officially established. This faculty is currently active with three departments of criminal law and criminology, the Department of Private Law, and the Department of Political Science, and accepts students in all three departments at three levels: bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. Currently, the number of students in this faculty at various levels of education is 824 male and female students who are studying in bachelor's, master's, and doctoral courses, of which 172 are international students. The number of foreign students in the International Faculty of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad is 172.