Type Private Vice-Chancellor Dr. Pirzada Qasim Campus Urban Founded 1995 Color Red and White | Established 1995 (1995) Registrar Muhammad Yousaf Phone +92 21 35862937 Chancellor Asim Hussain | |
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Location Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan Address Shahrah-e-Humayun, Karachi, Pakistan Affiliations Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Similar Dow University of Health, Baqai Medical University, Aga Khan University, Jinnah Sindh Medical, Hamdard University Profiles | ||
The Ziauddin University (Urdu: جامعہ ضیاء الدین, abbreviated as ZU), is a private research university located in the North Nazimabad suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The university is honored and named after the renowned educationist, Ziauddin Ahmad.
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Founded in 1995 by the Ziauddin Group who also managed its research and financial funding, it is one of the premium institutions of higher learning in medical and biological sciences. With a strong emphasis on medical, health, and biomedical engineering, the university offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programmes. Due to its health research, it consistently maintained its high-ranking position and currently placed as one of the top institution in "medical category" by the HEC. In addition, its faculty and the university itself has taken initiatives to improve the health care system of Pakistan.
The university's official mission seek to commit to have a futuristic approach in imparting knowledge, skills and service rendered with the highest sense of moral uprightness and social responsibility to the nation, region and the world at large.
Ziauddin university convocation 2016
History
The establishment of the medical college fulfilled a dream of Sir Ziauddin Ahmed (1877–1947) who had hoped to start a medical college at Aligarh Muslim University.