University of Punjab Lahore

University of Punjab Lahore

 

University of the Punjab commonly known as Punjab University, is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its Senate on October 14, 1882 at Simla. It was the fourth University to be established by the British colonial authorities on the Indian Subcontinent. (The first three universities were established by the British rulers at their initial strongholds of Calcutta , Bombay, and Madras

Campus

The University of Punjab has several campuses in Pakistan including

• Allama Iqbal Campus: Also known as the Old Campus, it is named after the great South Asian thinker and mystic poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal. The building speaks aloud of Islamic architectural design and is located in the middle of the bustling city of Lahore.

• Quaid-i-Azam Campus: Also known as the New Campus, it is named after the name of the father of the Nation and is located 12 kilometers to the South of Allama Iqbal Campus. Spread over an area of 1,800 acres (7 km²) of lush green landscape, this campus is the center of academic and administrative activities of the University. A canal dividing the academic blocks from the student lodgings adds to the beauty of the campus.

• Gujranwala Campus: The campus has four disciplines i.e. Business Administration, Commerce, Law and Information Technology. Few more disciplines will be added in near future.

• Khanaspur Campus: The summer campus at Khanaspur is located at a height of about 7,000 ft (2,100 m). in the Himalayan range near Ayubia. This Campus, in addition to providing research facilities, is also used as a recreational center for the faculty and the students.

Faculties

There are 16 faculties in the University with 19 constituent colleges, 64 Departments, Centers, Institutes. It has about a 500 permanent faculty members involved in teaching/research.

• Faculty of Arts and Humanities
• Faculty of Quality & Technology Management
• Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Commerce
• Faculty of Computer Sciences
• Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Engineering & Technology
• Faculty of Islamic Studies
• Faculty of Aeronautical & Space Science
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Life-Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry (to be discontinued soon, all facilities to be transferred to the University of Health Sciences)
• Faculty of Oriental Learning
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Science

IT Restructuring

In the last four years, University of the Punjab has spent a large amount to develop the IT Infrastructure and serve the students in the best and latest possible ways. At the moment, the University has 9 MB bandwidth for students, faculty and researchers, which is the largest bandwidth amongst any Public Sector University in Pakistan. The University of the Punjab has the largest Fibre Optic Cables Local Area Network involving more than 35 km single and multimode fiber optic cable as backbone and more than 2,000 nodes, which connects all existing departments and hostels with each other. To manage all the activities of the overall IT infrastructure, like network development, expansion and maintenance, providing maintenance/troubleshooting services (network, hardware and software) to all departments, software development, database management and Website development, online announcement of examination results, and 24-hour Internet facility, the University of the Punjab has a full-fledged service department in Quaid-i-Azam Campus, namely the Information Technology Centre. It is working for the growth and smooth progress for the evolution of new IT developments.
web address: www.pu.edu.pk
Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Lahore