Ghazi University ( ur, غازی یونیورسٹی) is a university in

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. The university was established in 2012 at the initiative of the Chief Minister of the

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. It is named after Baloch mercenary

Ghazi Khan Ghazi Khan ( Balochi, Urdu ) was a Baloch mercenary from who moved to Multan in the late 15th century at the behest of the Langah Sultanate. He was accompanied by his sons, Ghazi Khan, Fatih Khan and Ismail Khan. The Derajat had its existence ...

. The university is situated in the center of city near pull daat and college chowk. There are two buildings of this university. One is at college chowk where students are recently studying and other is at Airport road. The campus at College road is called City Campus and the Campus at Airport road is called airport campus. The Airport campus is under construction.

History

In 1998, the

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opened its sub-campus as a college of agriculture at Dera Ghazi Khan. In 2004,

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also established its sub-campus there. On 11 July 2014 the College of Agriculture DG Khan, BZU Sub-campus, Postgraduate Degree College and Ghazi Medical College were given the status of Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan.

Administration

The university has an administration office at City Campus.

Departments

Currently there are four faculties and 21 departments working at Ghazi University: Faculty of Agricultural Sciences * Department of Agronomy Sc (Hons) Agronomy; MSc (Hons) Agronomy & PhD Agronomy* Department of Horticulture Sc (Hons) Horticulture; MSc (Hons) Horticulture* Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics Sc (Hons) PBG; MSc (Hons) PBG* Department of Plant Protection Sc (Hons) Agri. Entomology; MSc (Hons) Agri. Entomology* Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences Sc (Hons) Soil and Environmental Sciences ; MSc (Hons)Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty of Arts * Department of English (BS & MA English) * Department of Islamic Studies (BS, MA Islamic Studies) * Department of History and Pakistan Studies (BS & MA History; BS & MA Pakistan Studies) * Department of Political Science (BS & MA Political Science) * Department of Urdu (BS & MA Urdu) Faculty of Management and Social Sciences * Department of Business Administration (BBA, MBA, MS-BA) * Department of Economics (BS & MSc Education) * Department of Education (BS & MA Education) * Department of Sociology (BS & MSc Sociology) Faculty of Science * Department of Botany S Botany; MSc Botany; MPhil/MS Botany* Department of Chemistry S Chemistry; MSc Chemistry* Department of Computer Science & IT SIT ; MCS * Department of Mathematics S Math; MSc Mtath* Department of Physics S Physics; MSc Physics* Department of Statistics S Statistics; MSc Statistics* Department of Zoology S Zoology; MSc Zoology; MPhil/MS Zoology Admissions: Online Admission system http://admission.gudgk.edu.pk/GhaziLoginfront.php Programs are: BS (Hons) MBA, BBA (morning and evening), MBA Executive, MBA-IT, MCS, MSc Economics and MA English. The campus has added a program of MSc Sociology. The Medical Science department has 50 teachers and 2,500 students.

Ghazi Khan Medical College D. G. Khan Medical College ( Urdu:), was established in 2010 and it is a public school of Medicine located in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab., Pakistan. DHQ Teaching Hospital, Dera Ghazi Khan is affiliated as a teaching and training hospital. Histo ...

Facilities

The university has 1,189 acres of land in front of Airport. There are 185 classrooms, a 71-room administration block, five libraries, 39 laboratories, five hostels and seven sports grounds. There are more than 137,000 books and 464 journals in the five libraries. The university has 6,500 students.

References

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