University of Karachi

The University of Karachi (Urdu: جامعۂ كراچى‎); informally Karachi University or UoK) is a public research university located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Established through a national emergence and a followup of the University of Sindh in Jamshoro, the university was established with a status as "Federal University" in 1951 and designed by the Mohsin Baig as its chief architect.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

University of Karachi
جامعۂ كراچى
Mottoرَبِّ زدْنيِ عِلْماً (Arabic) اے میرے رب میرے علم میں اضافہ فرما (Urdu)
Motto in English
O my Lord! Advance me in Knowledge
TypePublic
Established1951 (1951)
ChancellorGovernor of Sindh
Vice-ChancellorProfessor Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi
Administrative staff
3500[1]
Students41,000 (Full times students only)[1]
Location
Karachi
,
Sindh
,
Pakistan
Campus1,279 acres (5.18 km2)[1]
ColoursGreen, white
        
NicknameUoK, KU
AffiliationsHigher Education Commission (Pakistan), Pakistan Engineering Council, Pharmacy Council of Pakistan, Pakistan Bar Council
Websiteuok.edu.pk

With a total student body of 41,000 full-time students and a campus size spanning over 1200 acres, Karachi University is one of the largest university in Pakistan with a distinguished reputation for multi-disciplinary research in science and technology, medical, and social sciences.[9][8] The university has over 53 Departments and 19 research institutes operating under nine faculties.[10] There are over 893 academics and more than 2500 supporting staff working for the university.[4][11]

In 2009, the university was named by now defunct THE-QS World University Rankings for the top 500 universities in the world, while it is ranked by QS ranking's in 2016 as among to the top 250 in Asia and among 701st in the world. In 2019 it was ranked 801st in the world and 251 in Asia. The university is a member of Association of Commonwealth Universities of the United Kingdom.[12]

History

At the time of establishment of Pakistan as a sovereign state in 1947, the means for higher education and research were negligible and diminished in the country.[5] Responding to the impending requirement of higher learning, Pakistan Government started establishing educational institutions of higher learning and research and thus underwent rapid modernization under a policy guided by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.[13] Its first Vice-chancellor was Dr. ABA Haleem.[13][14] In 1953 it started its teaching and research activities at two faculties: the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science.[13]

For the first two years, the University of Karachi remained as an examination university for the affiliated colleges. Over the years, the enrollment expanded rapidly. Karachi University first intake was 50 students, the university now has 53 academic departments and 20 Research Centers and Institutes, under faculties of Social Sciences, Science, Islamic Studies, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, Management and Administrative Sciences and Medicines. The enrollment of regular students at the campus is around 28,000.[13] There are about 1,000 faculty members and more than 3,000 supporting staff.

Past appointed Vice-Chancellors
List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Karachi (1951–present)
Vice-ChancellorsDepartment FacultyTenure Starting-dateTenure completed-date
Prof. Abu Bakr Ahmad Haleem[15]Political Science23 June 195122 Jun 1957
Prof. Basheer Ahmad Hashmi[15]23 June 195722 June 1961
Prof. Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi[15]History23 June 19612 August 1971
Prof. Mahmud Hussain[15]English Literature3 August 19719 April 1975
Prof. Saleemuzzaman Siddiqui (Interim)[15]Chemistry10 April 197516 January 1976
Prof. Ehsan Rasheed[15]Economics7 January 197631 August 1979
Prof. S. Masum Ali Tirmizi[15]Physics1 September 197931 August 1983
Prof. Jameel Jalibi[15]Urdu literature1 September 198331 August 1987
Prof. Manzooruddin Ahmad[15]Philosophy1 September 19877 July 1990
Prof. S. Irtafaq Ali[15]Botany8 July 19906 July 1994
Prof. Abdul Wahab (educationist) (Acting)[15]Institute of Business Administration, Karachi6 July 19944 April 1995
Prof. Abdul Wahab (educationist)[15]Institute of Business Administration, Karachi5 April 19959 November 1996
Prof. Hafeez A. Pasha[15]Economics10 November 199624 July 1997
Prof. Usama Abbasi[15]Economics1 April 200624 July 2008
Prof. Zafar H. Zaidi[15]25 July 19977 January 2001
Prof. Zafar Saeed Saify (Interim)[15]12 January 200128 February 2001
Prof. Zafar Saeed Saify[15]1 March 20015 January 2004
Prof. Pirzada Qasim[15]Neuroscience6 January 20049 February 2012
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Qaiser[15]Botany10 February 201224 January 2017[16]
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Khan[16] Botany 24 January 2017 4 May 2019[17]
Prof. Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi (Interim) Public Administration 5 May 2019 till date

Campus
KU
Location in Karachi

The university campus area is over 1,279 acres (5.18 km2) of land, situated 12 km away from the city center of Karachi. The university has about four percent International students who come from 23 different countries in the regions from Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The university has a high standard of teaching, with many professors being well-known scholars and academics of international repute. In a short span of 40 years, the university has risen to acquire a high status in the field of education in Pakistan as well as in the region.

Academic emphasis

The most prestigious research center of the university is the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences which has over 500 students enrolled for PhD in organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular medicine, genomics, nanotechnology and other fields. The Husein Ebrahim Jamal Research Institute of Chemistry, Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Development and the Jamil-ur-Rahman Center for Genome Research are an integral part of this multi-disciplinary research center.[18] It was selected as the UNESCO Center of Excellence in 2016.[19] The university's physics and statistics departments are claimed to be well known departments and its research output plays a vital role in the development of science and technology in the country.[20][21]

Furthermore, the department of mathematical sciences is one of the largest departments in the Faculty of Science, which has a three-floor building consisting of an electronic laboratory for computational mathematics.[22][23]

The department of architecture has produced award-winning designers, architects and artists, who are making their mark in the professional world.[24]

Library system
Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre
Offices of the Faculty of Arts, KU
Way to Arts Lobby
Applied Economics Research Centre, KU
Commerce Building

The University of Karachi's library, known as "Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library", has houses well over 400,000 volumes dating back to the 1600s, for researchers as well as for use by students of advance studies and faculty members.[25] The library became the depository of the personal book collection of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Established and constructed in 1952, the Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library is an imposing five story and basement structure firmly placed in the center of campus activities.[25] Teachers from over 100 affiliated colleges frequent the university, along with scholars from 19 research institutions.[25] A loan and resource sharing system exists with other academic entities in the Karachi area.[25] A digital library enables the scholars and students to access online books and journals.[25] 25 librarians, 10 assistant librarians and around 90 nonprofessional staff help maintain the library. The building includes six reading rooms for general purposes and six for research.[25] The International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences has within it the Latif Ebrahim Jamal Science Information Centre which is the national focal point for distance education[18]

Previously called the Karachi University Library, it was renamed the Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library by unanimous resolution of the Karachi University Syndicate on 12 April 1976— the first death anniversary of Prof. Dr. Mahmud Hussain Khan.[26] Mahmud Hussain served the university's Vice-Chancellor from 1971 to 1975 and the library was named in recognition of his contribution to the teaching of social sciences in Pakistan. Dr. Hussain was the first professor the university appointed to its faculty of International Relations and History. He introduced library science to Pakistan by instituting the Faculty of Journalism and Library Science at the university. He also actively worked to improve the status and pay scales of the library staff to make them at par with the university's other faculty members.[26] The photos show that UoK remains seriously underfunded.

Karachi University Press

The university publishes books, texts, periodicals and other academic materials in-house through the Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation (BCC&T).

Faculties and departments

The University of Karachi has 9 faculties:[27]

Departments and Faculties
FacultyThe listed active Academic department(s) and the academic Chair(s) of the University of Karachi (KU)
Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Department of Arabic
  • Department of Bengali
  • Department of Criminology
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of English
  • Department of General History
  • Department of International Relations
  • Department of Islamic History
  • Department of Library and Information Science
  • Department of Mass Communication
  • Department of Persian
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of Psychology
  • Department of Sindhology
  • Department of Sociology
  • Department of Social Works
  • Department of Urdu
  • Department of Visual Studies
  • Department of Research Facility Center
  • Shah Abdul Latif Chair
Faculty of Engineering
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Management &

Administrative Sciences[28]
Faculty of Engineering
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Education
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Special Education
  • Department of Teacher Education
Faculty of Islamic studies
  • Department of Islamic Learning
  • Department of Quran-o-Sunnah
  • Department of Usul-ud-Din
  • Sirah Chair
Faculty of Law
  • School of Law
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Science

Research institutes and centres
  • Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Applied Economics Research Centre
  • Area Study Center for Europe
  • Center for Digital Forensic Science and Technology
  • Center of Excellence for Women Study
  • Center of Excellence in Marine Biology
  • Center for Molecular Genetics
  • Centre for Plant Conservation
  • Confucius Institute
  • Hussain Ebrahim Jamal Research Institute of Chemistry
  • Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine
  • Jamil-ur-Rahman Center for Genome Research[30]
  • Dr. A.Q. Khan Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
  • Khan Research Laboratories
  • Institute of Clinical Psychology
  • Institute of Environmental Studies
  • Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Department of Main Communication Network[31]
  • Institute of Marine Science
  • National Institute of Virology
  • M.A.H.Q Biological Research Centre
  • National Center for Proteomics
  • National Nematological Research Centre
  • Pakistan Study Center
  • Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre
  • Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics
  • Institute for Sustainable Halophyte Utilization
  • Marine Reference & Research Collection Center

Alumnus and people
Main article: List of University of Karachi alumni

Since its establishment in 1951, the university has attracted prominent scholars and renowned educationist as its faculty members, researchers and associated scholars. Ravindra Kaushik , Scholars and educationists such as Iqbal Hussain Qureshi, Rafiuddin Raz, Mahmud Hussain, Saleemuzzaman Siddiqui, Abdul Qadeer Khan, I H Qureshi, Raziuddin Siddiqui, Atta-ur-Rahman, Prof.Khursheed Ahmed are few that have been affiliated with the institution.[5] The faculty was drawn not only from Pakistan but also included eminent educationists from the United Kingdom and the United States.[5]

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See also

References
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