Карачи университеті: Пакистанның ірі және танымал жоғары оқу орны

Public university in Karachi, Pakistan
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 universities in Pakistan with a distinguished reputation for multi disciplinary research in science and technology, medical, and social sciences. There are over 893 academics and more than 2500 supporting staff working for the university. In 2008, the university was named for the first time by THE QS World University Rankings among the top 600 universities in the world. In 2009, the university was named as one of the top 500 universities in the world, while in 2016 it was ranked among the top 250 in Asia and 701st in the world. In 2019, it was ranked 801st in the world and 251st in Asia. The University of Karachi is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities of the United Kingdom.

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. Its first Vice chancellor was Dr. ABA Haleem. In 1953 it started its teaching and research activities at two faculties: the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science.

+ List of Vice Chancellors of the University of Karachi (1951–present) Vice Chancellors Department Faculty Tenure Starting date Tenure completed dateProf. Abu Bakr Ahmad Haleem Political Science 23 June 1951 22 Jun 1957 Prof. Basheer Ahmad Hashmi Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ajmal KhanProf. Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi (Interim)Public Administration16 May 20191 March 2022Prof. Dr. Nasira Khatoon (Interim)Zoology2 March 202228 July 2022Prof. Dr. Khalid M. IraqiPublic Administration29 July 2022Incumbent

The university campus area is over of land, situated 12 km away from the city center of Karachi. The university has about four percent of International students who come from 23 different countries in the regions of Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East (West Asia) 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. On November 27, 2023, the Bohra community leader Dr Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin inaugurated a new state of the art facility for law students on the Karachi University (KU) campus. The new School of Law building, spread over 45,000 square feet, features an Islamic ethos of positive change through education. With its large capacity, the building will allow a greater number of graduate and postgraduate students to pursue multiple law programs.

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. It was selected as the UNESCO Center of Excellence in 2016. 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. 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. The department of architecture has produced award winning designers, architects and artists, who are making their mark in the professional world.

Since its establishment in 1951, the university has attracted prominent scholars and renowned educationist as its faculty members, researchers and associated scholars. Scholars and educationists such as Ravindra Kaushik, Iqbal Hussain Qureshi, Rafiuddin Raz, Mahmud Hussain, Saleemuzzaman Siddiqui, Abdul Qadeer Khan, I H Qureshi, Raziuddin Siddiqui, Atta ur Rahman, Mahreen Asif Zuberi, Prof. Khursheed Ahmed, Bina Shaheen Siddiqui are some of those, that have been affiliated with the institution. A female suicide bomber was spotted in the attack footage, who was sent by a militant separatist group BLA Baloch Liberation Army operating from Balochistan.