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The university's first convocation was held on December 17, 2017. The university awarded its first Honorary Doctorate Degree awarded to Dr. Adil Najam, the inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
Higher education in Pakistan is the systematic process of students continuing their education beyond secondary school, learned societies and two-year colleges.The governance of higher education is maintained under the Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) (HEC) which oversees the financial funding, research outputs and teaching quality in the country. [1]
The university is the first multi-campus university in Pakistan, having five modern campuses based in different cities. [3] These campuses are located in Chiniot-Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar, providing a standard educational environment and recreational facilities to 11,000 students, out of which 500 are faculty members and a quarter is covered by female students.
They aimed to provide substantial contributions to the research and publications areas in Pakistan through the introduction of graduate degree programs. The institute was started on September 12, 2001, at the Software Technology Park, Islamabad, in affiliation with the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila .
NUST is the first model university established by the Ministry of Science and Technology like KAIST of Korea. [10] The student body consists of 7,000+ students, including 102 international students and 884 postgraduate students. In 2015, more than 70,000 candidates applied for the undergraduate program at NUST.
The Virtual University of Pakistan (VU) (Jamia Majazi Pakistan) is a public university with its headquarters in Sir Syed Memorial Society Building, 19-Ataturk Avenue, G-5/1, Islamabad. [3] It mainly focuses on providing e-learning programs through utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools.
UIT University (formerly Usman Institute of Technology (UIT)) [5] is a not-for profit institute. UIT university's campus is located at the intersection of University Road and Abul Hasan Isphahani Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan. On December 18, 2021, the inauguration ceremony took place, officiated by the Governor of Sindh, Imran Ismail.
Today, it is widely considered one of the best and most prestigious engineering universities in Pakistan. More than 50,000 students apply for admission every year. [7] The university, as of 2016, had a faculty of 881, 257 of whom had doctorates. It had a total of 9,385 undergraduate and 1,708 postgraduate students. [8]