The University of Karachi (Urdu: جامعۂ كراچى); casually Karachi University, KU, or UoK) is a public examination college situated in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Set up through a public development and a replacement to the University of Sindh, which is currently situated in Jamshoro, the college was set up with a status as “Government University” in 1951 and planned by Mohsin Baig as its boss architect.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
College of Karachi
Karachi University
Adage
رَبِّ زدْنيِ عِلْماً (Arabic) اے میرے رب میرے علم میں اضافہ فرما (Urdu)
Adage in English
O my Lord! Advance me in Knowledge
Type
Public
Set up
1951; 70 years prior
Chancellor
Legislative head of Sindh
ViceChancellor
Teacher Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi
Managerial staff
3500[1]
Understudies
41,000 (Full occasions understudies only)[1]
Areap
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Grounds
1,279 sections of land (5.18 km2)[1]
Shadings
Green, White
Moniker
UoK, KU
Affiliations
HEC, PEC, PhCP, PBC
Site
uok.edu.pk
With an all out understudy assemblage of 41,000 full-time understudies and a grounds size traversing more than 1200 sections of land, Karachi University is one of the biggest college in Pakistan with a recognized standing for multi-disciplinary examination in science and innovation, clinical, and social sciences.[9][8] The college has more than 53 Departments and 19 exploration foundations working under nine faculties.[10] There are more than 893 scholastics and in excess of 2500 supporting staff working for the university.[4][11]
In 2008, the college was named interestingly by THE-QS World University Rankings for the main 600 colleges on the planet. During 2009, the college was named at this point old THE-QS World University Rankings for the main 500 colleges on the planet, while it is positioned by QS World University Rankings in 2016 as among to the best 250 in Asia and among 701st on the planet. In 2019 it was positioned 801st on the planet and 251 in Asia. The college is an individual from Association of Commonwealth Universities of the United Kingdom.[12]
History
At the hour of foundation of Pakistan as a sovereign state in 1947, the means for advanced education and exploration were immaterial and reduced in the country.[5] Responding to the looming necessity of higher learning, Pakistan Government began building up instructive organizations of higher learning and examination and accordingly went through fast modernization under an arrangement directed by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.[13] Its first Vice-chancellor was Dr. ABA Haleem.[13][14] In 1953 it began its educating and exploration exercises at two resources: the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science.[13]
For the initial two years, the University of Karachi stayed as an assessment college for the subsidiary schools. Throughout the long term, the enlistment extended quickly. Karachi University first admission was 50 understudies, the college presently has 53 scholastic divisions and 20 Research Centers and Institutes, under resources of Social Sciences, Science, Islamic Studies, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, Management and Administrative Sciences and Medicines. The enlistment of standard understudies at the grounds is around 28,000.[13] There are around 1,000 employees and in excess of 3,000 supporting staff.
Past delegated Vice-Chancellors Edit
Rundown of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Karachi (1951–present)
Bad habit Chancellors Department Faculty Tenure Starting-date Tenure finished date
Prof. Abu Bakr Ahmad Haleem[15] Political Science 23 June 1951 22 Jun 1957
Prof. Basheer Ahmad Hashmi[15] 23 June 1957 22 June 1961
Prof. Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi[15] History 23 June 1961 2 August 1971
Prof. Mahmud Hussain[15] English Literature 3 August 1971 9 April 1975
Prof. Saleemuzzaman Siddiqui (Interim)[15] Chemistry 10 April 1975 16 January 1976
Prof. Ehsan Rasheed[15] Economics 7 January 1976 31 August 1979
Prof. S. Masum Ali Tirmizi[15] Physics 1 September 1979 31 August 1983
Prof. Jameel Jalibi[15] Urdu literature 1 September 1983 31 August 1987
Prof. Manzooruddin Ahmad[15] Philosophy 1 September 1987 7 July 1990
Prof. S. Irtafaq Ali[15] Botany 8 July 1990 6 July 1994
Prof. Abdul Wahab (educationist) (Acting)[15] Institute of Business Administration, Karachi 6 July 1994 4 April 1995
Prof. Abdul Wahab (educationist)[15] Institute of Business Administration, Karachi 5 April 1995 9 November 1996
Prof. Hafeez A. Pasha[15] Economics 10 November 1996 24 July 1997
Prof. Zafar H. Zaidi[15] 25 July 1997 7 January 2001
Prof. Zafar Saeed Saify (Interim)[15] 12 January 2001 28 February 2001
Prof. Zafar Saeed Saify[15] 1 March 2001 5 January 2004
Prof. Pirzada Qasim[15] Neuroscience 6 January 2004 9 February 2012
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Qaiser[15] Botany 10 February 2012 24 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 is situated in KarachiKUKU
Area in Karachi
The college grounds region is more than 1,279 sections of land (5.18 km2) of land, arranged 12 km away from the downtown area of Karachi. The college has around four percent International understudies who come from 23 unique nations in the districts of Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East (West Asia) and Europe. The college has an exclusive requirement of educating, with numerous teachers being notable researchers and scholastics of global notoriety. In a limited capacity to focus 40 years, the college has ascended to gain a high status in the field of instruction in Pakistan just as in the district.
Scholarly accentuation
The most renowned examination focus of the college is the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences which has more than 500 understudies enlisted for PhD in natural science, organic chemistry, sub-atomic medication, genomics, nanotechnology and different 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 a basic piece of this multi-disciplinary exploration center.[18] It was chosen as the UNESCO Center of Excellence in 2016.[19] The college’s physical science and insights offices are professed to be notable offices and its examination yield assumes a fundamental part in the advancement of science and innovation in the country.[20][21]
Moreover, the division of numerical sciences is probably the biggest office in the Faculty of Science, which has a three-story building comprising of an electronic lab for computational mathematics.[22][23]
The division of engineering has delivered grant winning creators, draftsmen and specialists, who are transforming the expert world.[24]
Library framework
Sheik Zayed Islamic Center
Workplaces of the Faculty of Arts, KU
Approach to Arts Lobby
Applied Economics Research Center, KU
Trade Building
The University of Karachi’s library, known as “Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library”, has houses above and beyond 400,000 volumes tracing all the way back to the 1600s, for analysts just as for use by understudies of advance examinations and staff members.[25] The library turned into the storehouse of the individual book assortment of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the author of Pakistan. Set up and developed in 1952, the Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library is an overwhelming five story and cellar structure immovably positioned in the focal point of grounds activities.[25] Teachers from more than 100 associated schools successive the college, alongside researchers from 19 examination institutions.[25] An advance and asset sharing framework exists with other scholastic substances in the Karachi area.[25] A computerized library empowers the researchers and understudies to get to online books and journals.[25] 25 custodians, 10 collaborator bookkeepers and around 90 nonprofessional staff assist with keeping up with the library. The structure incorporates six perusing spaces for general purposes and six for research.[25] The International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences has inside it the Latif Ebrahim Jamal Science Information Center which is the public point of convergence for distance education[18]
Recently called the Karachi University Library, it was renamed the Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library by consistent goal of the Karachi University Syndicate on 12 April 1976—the primary passing commemoration of Prof. Dr. Mahmud Hussain Khan.[26] Mahmud Hussain served the college’s Vice-Chancellor from 1971 to 1975 and the library was named in acknowledgment of his commitment to the instructing of sociologies in Pakistan. Dr. Hussain was the primary educator the college designated to its personnel of International Relations and History. He acquainted library science with Pakistan by organizing the Faculty of Journalism and Library Science at the college. He likewise effectively attempted to work on the status and pay sizes of the library staff to make them at standard with the college’s other personnel members.[26] The photographs show that UoK remains truly underfunded.
Karachi University Pre
The college distributes books, texts, periodicals and other scholastic materials in-house through the Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation (BCC&T).
Resources and offices
The University of Karachi has 9 faculties:[27]
Offices and Faculties
Faculty The recorded dynamic Academic department(s) and the scholastic Chair(s) of the University of Karachi (KU)
Staff of Social Sciences
Division of Arabic
Division of Bengali
Division of Criminology
Division of Economics
Division of English
Division of General History
Division of International Relations
Division of Islamic History
Division of Library and Information Science
Division of Mass Communication
Division of Persian
Division of Philosophy
Division of Political Science
Division of Psychology
Division of Sindhology
Division of Sociology
Division of Social Works
Division of Urdu
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