Jamiah Punjab
Motto	ایمان ، اتحاد ، نظم (Urdu) (Iman, Ittehad, Nazm)
Motto in English	Faith, Unity, Discipline
Established	1882
Type	Public
Faculty	Nobel laureate= 2 Abdus Salam , Har Gobind Khorana
Students	30,000
Location	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Campus	Urban
Website	www.pu.edu.pk

The Jamiah Punjab (Punjabi, Urdu: جامعه پنجاب) (abbreviated some time as PU) , colloquially 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).

[edit] History

The University of the Punjab came into existence as a result of a long drawn struggle of the people of Punjab after the Indian War of Independence in 1857. Joseph Lwe was the founder of the university. Contrary to the three previously established universities, which were only examining institutions, the University of the Punjab was both teaching as well as examining body right from beginning.

From its formation in 1882 until 1947, the University of the Punjab served the educational needs of the entire region of pre-partition Punjab and northern India. Mohindra College, Patiala was the first college of higher learning to affiliate with University of Punjab in 1882; followed by St. Stephen's College, Delhi. The partition of India in 1947 reduced the geographical jurisdiction of the university. The current Institute of Administrative Sciences was created in 1962.

Many major institutions that were previously affiliated to Punjab University have now become independent universities on their own, such as Government College University and Medical and Engineering Colleges.

[edit] Campus

Allama Iqbal Campus

The University of Punjab has several campuses in Pakistan including^[1]:

• 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 has an 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 divides the academic blocks from the student lodgings.

• Gujranwala Campus: The campus has four disciplines i.e. Business Administration, Commerce, Law and Information Technology.

• 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.

[edit] Academics

University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus

It is the country's leading university, offering a broad program of studies at the undergraduate, MSc, MPhil and PhD levels.It is also offering BS honours in subjects including software engineering, computer science, information technology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, statistics and environmental sciences. The university has about 25000 full-time regular students and about 147,000 students in 434 affiliated colleges. With very few exceptions, these colleges offer a 2 year associate bachelors or 'bachelor pass' degree. The university acts as only as a certifying body for the autonomous colleges and also administers and grades the final or end of degree exams for all graduates of these autonomous affiliated colleges. The university does not participate in their day to day operation. All graduates of these autonomous affiliated colleges are awarded their degree by the University of Punjab. The university also has several thousand private students in the liberal arts subjects. These study on their own and take examinations held by the university to qualify for their degrees.

The University has a teaching faculty that provides instruction to students and conducts research. At present about a hundred students are registered in the PhD programs of various disciplines under the regular PhD scheme. The University aims to produce at least 100 PhDs every year.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Faculties

There are 13 faculties in the University with 10 constituent colleges, 63 Departments, Centers, Institutes. It has about 650 permanent faculty members involved in teaching/research.^[2]:

1 Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2 Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences
3 Faculty of Commerce
4 Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences
5 Faculty of Education
6 Faculty of Engineering & Technology
7 Faculty of Islamic Studies
8 Faculty of Law
9 Faculty of Life-Sciences
10 Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
11 Faculty of Oriental Learning
12 Faculty of Pharmacy
13 Faculty of Science

[edit] IT Restructuring

The University has 9 MB bandwidth for students, faculty and researchers, which is the highest bandwidth amongst any public sector university in Pakistan. The university has the largest fibre optic 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. The university has a service department in Quaid-i-Azam Campus (called the Information Technology Centre) to manage all the activities of the overall IT infrastructure, such as 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.

[edit] Research and collaborations

The University is working alongside/collaborating with others globally:

[edit] United States

• Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
• San José State University.

[edit] United Kingdom

• University of Manchester
• University of Luton

[edit] China

• Beijing University of Chemical Technology
• City University of Hong Kong
• Wuhan University, School of Foreign Languages and Literature
• University People’s Republic of China

[edit] Iran

• Markaz Nashr-e-Miras-e-Maktoob
• Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
• University of Tehran, The Faculty of Foreign Languages
• Tarbiat Modares University

[edit] Others

• University of Vienna, Institute of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
• Osaka University of Foreign Studies
• Daito Bunka University
• University of Dhaka
• Geumgang University Nonsan.
• Kyushu University
• Moscow State University
• Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).
• National Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Bio Technology (NRCGEB).
• University Utara
• Kedah Darul Aman
• University of Zimbabwe

[edit] Notable alumni

Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a key leader in the Pakistan movement, studied law in the University of the Punjab

Yousuf Raza Gillani, current Prime Minister of Pakistan. He received BA in 1970 and MA in 1976 from the university.

Har Gobind Khorana(far left)), was an Indian-American researcher, received the 1968 Nobel Prize winner in the category Physiology or Medicine.

Abdus Salam, a Pakistani theoretical physicist, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in Electroweak theory. He received his MA in mathematics in 1946 from the university.

[edit] See also

• Institute of Administrative Sciences
• Center for Applied and Molecular Biology
• Institute of Business and Information Technology
• College of Information Technology

[edit] References

University of the Punjab test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Pakistan Research Depository: University of Punjab
• Punjab University College of Information and Technology
• Punjab Educational Website Portal of Pakistan