The Government College Women University Sialkot (GCWUS) ( ur, ) is a

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private unive ...

located in

Sialkot Sialkot ( ur, ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of Sialkot District and the 13th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined with Jammu (the winter capital of Indian administered Jammu and Ka ...

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

, Pakistan.Punjab govt lauded for passing eight bills
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Recognized university

This university is recognized by the

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.Recognition by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
Higher Education Commission of Pakistan website, Retrieved 19 November 2021

History

Government College for Women was inaugurated by the respectable Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah (Mather-e-Millat) on 1 December 1951 and its first principal was Muneem-ud-Din. Next to Miss Muneem-ud-Din, Miss Kazmi a well known educationist became the second principal of the institution.Under Miss Kazmi the institution flourished to its full. The college was initiated with only 32 students and 10 teaching staff members. It multiplied to almost 4500 students and the teaching staff working at present is 71 out of 108 and the Non-Teaching staff is 61. The F.A. classes started in 1951, F.Sc. classes in 1952 and B.Sc. in 1960. The college was upgraded into a Post Graduated College in 1989 offering master's degree classes in the subject of English, Urdu and Islamiyat. BS Hons. 4 Years Degree Program was introduced by the Higher Education Department in 2010. Keeping in view its educational growth rate, it attained the status of first Women University in Sialkot in 2012 and was renamed as the Government College Women University, Sialkot.

Programs

The university offers

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and

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programs in the following disciplines:

Science and technology

* Information Technology * Zoology * Botany * Chemistry * Physics * Computer Science * Political Science * Biology

Arts and humanities

* English * Urdu * Economics * Mathematics

Business and social sciences