University of Karachi

The University of Karachi (KU) is an open exploration college situated in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is one of the most established university in Pakistan being set up as a government university in 1951 under the authority of Oxford prepared Dr. ABA Haleem.

With an understudy group of 24,000 full-time understudies and a grounds size traversing more than 1200 sections of land, Karachi University is Pakistan's biggest university with a recognized notoriety for multi-disciplinary examination in science and innovation, restorative exploration, and sociologies. The college ranges more than 53 Divisions and 19 world-class research foundations working under eight resources. There are more than 800 scholastic's and more than 2500 supporting staff working for the university.


In 2009, the University was named at this point outdated THE-QS World University Rankings for the main 500 University on the planet, while it is positioned by QS positioning's in 2016 as among to the main 250 in Asia and among 701st on the planet, the examination at the university is positioned as 'high'.The university has been partnered with incredibly famous and remarkable researchers have been related and subsidiary with the university as staff, specialists, or graduated class since its foundation.

The University is an individual from Relationship of Republic Colleges of the United Kingdom

• History of KU

History of the University of Karachi

At the season of foundation of Pakistan as a sovereign state in 1947, the methods for advanced education and examination were irrelevant and reduced in the nation. Reacting to the approaching prerequisite of higher learning, Pakistan Government began building up pertinent instructive establishments of higher learning and research and hence experienced quick modernization under a strategy guided by Head administrator Liaquat Ali Khan. After an overwhelming political campaigning upheld by the inhabitants of Karachi, the University of Karachi was set up through parliamentary approval as a "Government University" in 1951. On 23 October 1950, the Karachi University Act was approved and after a correction in 1951, it was sanctioned by the Leader Liaquat Ali Khan. Its first Bad habit chancellor was Muslim Class extremist and political researcher, Dr. Ahmad Haleem. In 1953 it began its instructing and research exercises at two resources: the Staff of Expressions and the Workforce of Science.


For the initial two years, the University of Karachi stayed as an examination University for the associated College. Throughout the years, the enlistment extended so quickly that the its status was reclassified by the administration as a "government research University" of Sindh, which was authoritatively achieved in 1962. Opened with an admission of 50 understudies, the college now has 53 Offices and 20 Research Focuses and Establishments, under resources of Sociologies, Science, Islamic Considers, Building, Law, Drug store, Administration and Authoritative Sciences and Prescriptions. The enlistment of standard understudies at the grounds is around 28,000. There are around 1,000 employees and more than 3,000 supporting staff. On 18 January 1960, the University was moved to the new grounds on a plot of 1,279 sections of land (5.18 km2) situated on the Nation Club Street (now University Street, going through the Gulistan-e-Jauhar), under the bad habit chancellorship of Prof. Dr. Basheer Ahmad Hashmi on 22 June 1961.

• Grounds Address 

The University grounds is spread more than 1,279 sections of land (5.18 km2) of area, arranged 12 km far from the downtown area of Karachi. Around four percent of the University understudies are outsiders who originate from 23 distinct nations in locales as different as Focal Asia, South Asia, the Center East and Europe. The University has an exclusive requirement of instructing, with numerous educators being surely understood researchers and scholastics of universal notoriety and having Ph.D. also, D.Sc. degrees from abroad. In a limited ability to focus 40 years, the University has ascended to obtain a high status in the field of instruction in Pakistan and in addition locally.

• Scholarly accentuation 

The University material science and measurements office are one of the surely understood office in the nation and its examination yield assumes an essential part in the advancement of Science and Innovation in the nation. Besides, the branch of numerical sciences of the Karachi University is one of the biggest division in the Personnel of Science, which has three amazed clean building comprising of an electronic research center for computational arithmetic.

The bureau of engineering (or visual studies) has delivered recompense winning originators, draftsmen, and specialists, who are making their imprint in the expert world.

• Library framework

The University of Karachi's library, known as "Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library", has houses well more than 400,000 volumes going back to the 1600s, for scientists and additionally for use by understudies of development studies and employees. The library turned into the store of the individual book gathering of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the originator of Pakistan. Set up and developed in 1952, the Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library is a forcing five story and storm cellar structure immovably set in the focal point of grounds exercises. Educators from more than 100 associated schools visit the university, alongside researchers from 19 research foundations. An advance and asset offering framework exists to other scholastic substances in the Karachi zone. An advanced library empowers the researchers and understudies to get to online books and diaries. 25 curators, 10 partner bookkeepers, and around 90 nonprofessional staff keep up the library. The building incorporates six perusing spaces for general purposes and six for examination.


Already called the Karachi University Library, it was renamed the Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library by consistent determination of the Karachi University Syndicate on 12 April 1976—the main passing commemoration of Prof. Dr. Mahmud Hussain Khan.[26] Mahmud Hussain served the college's Bad habit Chancellor from 1971 to 1975, and the library was named in acknowledgment of his commitment to the educating of sociologies in Pakistan. Dr. Hussain was the main educator the University selected to its staff of Universal Relations and History. He acquainted library science with Pakistan by founding the Staff of News coverage and Library Science at the college. He additionally effectively attempted to enhance the status and pay sizes of the library staff to make them at standard with the University other employees.