University of the Punjab

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جامعۂ پنجاب
University of the Punjab
University of the Punjab
logo
motto Urdu ایمان ، اتحاد ، نظم
(Faith, Unity and Discipline)
founding October 14, 1882
Sponsorship state
place Lahore , Punjab
country PakistanPakistan Pakistan
Chancellor (chancellor) the governor of Punjab Province
Students 42,836 (2017)
Employee 1102 ("regular") (2017)
5917 (non-academic) (2017)
Annual budget PKR 9.03 billion (2017)
(approx. EUR 60 million)
Networks FUIW
Website www.pu.edu.pk
Campus building in British colonial architecture
A lecture hall at the University of the Punjab
On the Allama Iqbal Campus

The University of Punjab ( Urdu جامعۂ پنجاب; also called PU or Punjab University ) is a state university in Lahore in the Pakistani province of Punjab . The college is the oldest and largest in Pakistan . Around 42,000 students were enrolled at the university in 2017. In addition, there are around 331,000 so-called "off-campus" students who are either enrolled in the universities affiliated with the university or are completing distance learning. This makes the university one of the largest in Asia . In 2017 there were around 1102 teachers employed.

history

The University of the Punjab was founded on October 14, 1882 as the fourth university in British India . The first director of the college was Gottlieb William Leitner , a Hungarian with British citizenship. Until the partition of Punjab in 1947 , the university was responsible for the northwest of the Indian subcontinent . After the division of the Punjab, the Panjab University was founded on the Indian side in Chandigarh as a replacement , while the University of the Punjab kept its function for the Pakistani areas.

Faculties and institutions

Faculties

  • trade
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Islam Studies
  • Life Sciences
  • Arts and humanities
  • Medicine and dentistry
  • Natural sciences
  • Oriental studies
  • pedagogy
  • pharmacy
  • law Sciences
  • Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Economics and business administration

University of the Punjab locations

Allama Iqbal Campus (old campus in downtown Lahore )

  • French (Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
  • Information technology
  • Oriental studies
  • Pharmacy (College of Pharmacy)
  • Fine arts

Quaid-e-Azam Campus

  • Almost all faculties are represented on the largest PU campus.

Gujranwala Campus (near Rawalpindi )

  • trade
  • Information technology
  • law Sciences
  • Economics

Khanspur Campus

  • Center for Integrated Mountain Research (CIMR)

In addition, 412 colleges in Pakistan are connected to the university with a total of 442,000 students.

Famous Graduates

  • Abdus Salam (1926–1996) - Nobel Laureate in Physics
  • Syed Babar Ali (* 1926) - industrialist, finance minister, philanthropist, WWF president

Web links

Commons : University of the Punjab  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About us ". Retrieved October 14, 2012 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d PU at Glance. Retrieved October 14, 2012 .
  3. ^ List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, p. 4 , accessed on September 5, 2019 .