Type Public Campus 2,500 acres (10 km2) | Established TBA Headquarters Nankana Sahib, Pakistan | |
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Location Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan Similar University of East, Pakistan Institute of Management, American University in London, Government College of Science, Al‑Khair University | ||
Not to be confused with the pre-existing Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar.
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Baba Guru Nanak University (Punjabi: بابا گرو نانک یونیورسٹی, ਬਾਬਾ ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ bābā gurū nānaka yūnīvarasiṭī) is a planned international university that will be located in Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan, the birthplace of Guru Nanak.
Introduction
Baba Guru Nanak University (BGNU) is a university proposed to be located in Nankana Sahib, in the Punjab region of Pakistan. It plans to facilitate between 5,000 and 10,000 students from all over the world at the university.
The plans are for it to be modeled along the lines of renowned universities like Oxford and Cambridge, offering faculties in "Medicine", "Dentistry", "Pharmacy", "Engineering", "Computer science", "Languages", "Music" and "Social sciences". After a facilities planning meeting in June 2007, High Court (Uganda) Judge Anup Singh Choudry and a group based in Southall, UK known as the World Muslim Sikh Federation have produced a detailed concept plan and blueprints calling for 2,500 acres (10 km2) to be set aside for the proposed institution.
Recently, the Pakistani government's Evacuee Trust Property Board announced that the university's groundbreaking will commence by the end of August 2016.
Name
The "World Muslim Sikh Federation" (WMSF) proposes that the name of the University should be one of the following three:
A short name of this university would be "Nanak University" which will be locate at Nankana Sahib City, Punjab, Pakistan.