The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), formerly known as Jamia Abbasia, is a
public university
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national universit ...
located in
Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur () is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. With inhabitants as of 2017, it is Pakistan's 11th most populous city.
Founded in 1748, Bahawalpur was the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur, ruled by the Abbasi fa ...
,
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 ...
, Pakistan. It is the only government university of the division, which gives standard education in practical as well as in theoretical sense.
History
Islamia University began as Jamia Abbasia, a religious university established in Bahawalpur in 1925 following the academic pursuits of
Al-Azhar University
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in Egypt. In 1975, Jamia Abbasia was declared a general university and renamed as The Islamia University of Bahawalpur.
Overview
The university started at the Abbasia and Khawaja Fareed campuses with ten departments. Later, 1280 acres of land was allotted to the university on Hasilpur Road about eight kilometers away from the city centre which became the Baghdad-ul-Jadeed campus. It consists 126 teaching departments offering 300 disciplines. In 2015, it was ranked 11th in the general (large) category of universities.
Faculties
The Islamia University Bahawalpur has currently fifteen functional faculties which are listed as,
* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Education
* Faculty of Chemical & Biological Sciences
* Faculty of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
* Faculty of Management Sciences and Commerce
* Faculty of Computing
* Faculty of Social sciences
* Faculty of Pharmacy
* Faculty of Islamic Learning
* Faculty of Arts and Languages
* Faculty of Engineering
* Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
* Faculty of Agriculture and Environment
* Faculty of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences
* Faculty of Online and Distance Education
Sub campuses
Islamia University added two more campuses in 2005: One covering eastern side of Bahawalpur Division (in Bahawalnagar; known as IUB Bahawalnagar Campus) and the other one to cover western side of Bahawalpur Division (in Rahim Yar Khan; known as IUB - Rahim Yar Khan Campus or IUB - RYK Campus).
List of Vice-Chancellors of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Notable alumni
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Allah Wasaya
Allah Wasaya (born 1945) ( Urdu: مولانا الله وسايا) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and one of the leaders of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat.
Biography
Wasaya born in 1945 to Malik Muhammad Ramzan in Garwan, Bahawalpur. H ...
, Pakistani Islamic scholar
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Shahid Hussain Bhatti
Shahid Hussain Bhatti () is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from September 2013 to May 2018.
Political career
He ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Mu ...
, Pakistani politician
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Javed Chaudhry
Javed Chaudhry (Urdu, pa, جاوید چوہدری; born January 1, 1968) is a Pakistani columnist, YouTuber, and journalist who has been hosting the ''Kal Tak'' show on Express News since 2008. He also writes Urdu columns on various topics ...
, Pakistani journalist
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Syed Ghulam Moinuddin Gilani, Islamic leader
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Muhammad Afzal Gill
Muhammad Afzal Gill is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from 1997 to 1999 and again from May 2013 to May 2018.
Early life and education
He was born on 1 February 1964 in Hasilpur.
He has the de ...
,
Pakistani politician
References
External links
IUB official websiteOfficial facebook pageOfficial facebook page of Department of Soil ScienceOfficial facebook page of University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
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Universities and colleges in Bahawalpur
1925 establishments in India
Educational institutions established in 1925
Public universities and colleges in Punjab, Pakistan
Engineering universities and colleges in Pakistan
Islamia University of Bahawalpur