Khazar University (Azerbaijani: Xəzər Universiteti, which directly translates as Caspian University) is a private university located in Baku, Azerbaijan.^[2]

Khazar University owns four campuses in the city of Baku and two campuses in regions of Azerbaijan.

• Neftchilar Campus
• Neftchilar Campus
• Downtown Campus

• Neftchilar Campus
• Downtown Campus
• Baku Dunya School Campus – Education complex for “Dunya” School, also Khazar University School of Education's Internship Center, Sports Center, Dormitory and Technopark
• Sumgayit Dunya School Campus
• Ganja Dunya School Campus
• Buzovna Conference and Leisure Center

Khazar University was founded in March 1991 by Hamlet Isakhanli,^[3] the university became one of the first private universities in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and the first in Azerbaijan to introduce Western-style, research-oriented higher education. Isakhanli formed Khazar in the interest of reforming the previous system of higher education under Soviet rule.^[4][5][6]

In Azerbaijan, Khazar University is providing Western-style education on all levels: undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral. Khazar University participates in foreign student exchange programs.^[7] It also runs a lab.

The Khazar University Dictionary and Encyclopedia Center,^[8] located on the campus of Khazar University in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been in operation since April 1996.^[9] The center is directed by Professor Tofik Abaskuliyev.^[10] The center's main functions are to perform linguistic and lexicological research and to prepare, evaluate and publish bilingual, multilingual and encyclopedic dictionaries.

• Adnan Hajizadeh, blogger and youth activist
• Nargiz Birk-Petersen, television commentator
• Nigar Jamal, winner of Eurovision 2011

The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association.^[11]