Al-Baath University (Arabic: جامعة البعث‎), founded in 1979, is a public university located in the city of Hims, Syria, 180 km north of Damascus. It is Syria's fourth largest university. Al-Baath University has 22 faculties, 5 intermediate institutes, 40,000 regular students, 20,000 students in open learning, 1310 high studies students and 622 faculty members. The library contains some 63,000 volumes (as of 2011).