Peshawar University
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The University of Peshawar is a public research university and one of the oldest universities in Pakistan. The university was founded in 1950 and offers programs for undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral studies. The university is the “mother” university of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, founded in Oct. 1950.
The university was founded as an expansion of the Islamia College, and has a campus of 1,050 acres (4 km2). The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who had visited the college in 1928 had great admiration for it, referring to it as ‘my college’ and adopted it as one of the three heirs to his fortune, along with Aligarh University and Sindh Madrassa (his own school) in 1939. For Jinnah the university was a gift to students of the province, in recognition of the part they played in the making of Pakistan and for Pashtuns who had fought Indians and captured Azad Kashmir.
It has expanded over the last fifty years and a number of buildings have been added. The total constructed area of the campus is more than 1,500,000 sq ft (140,000 m2). However, its original lawns and green tracts have been retained.
For more details: University of Peshawar official website
The university was founded as an expansion of the Islamia College, and has a campus of 1,050 acres (4 km2). The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who had visited the college in 1928 had great admiration for it, referring to it as ‘my college’ and adopted it as one of the three heirs to his fortune, along with Aligarh University and Sindh Madrassa (his own school) in 1939. For Jinnah the university was a gift to students of the province, in recognition of the part they played in the making of Pakistan and for Pashtuns who had fought Indians and captured Azad Kashmir.
It has expanded over the last fifty years and a number of buildings have been added. The total constructed area of the campus is more than 1,500,000 sq ft (140,000 m2). However, its original lawns and green tracts have been retained.
For more details: University of Peshawar official website
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