# Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

The Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) (Urdu: جامعہ عبد الولی خان مردان) (Pashto: د عبدالولی خان پوھنتون مردان) is a public university located in the Mardan District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Established in April 2009, the university is named after Abdul Wali Khan, a prominent personality of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This institution has forty nine institutions affiliated with it. The university started in an already-built postgraduate college of Mardan. It has nine campuses and more than ten thousand students enrolled in thirty one disciplines as of 2015. The campus at Swabi was opened in October 2010 in the Anbar Elementary College building and has since then become the University of Swabi. The Palosa campus is home to Bacha Khan University. Currently the university has three constituent colleges and six faculties. Those include the faculties of Arts & Humanities, Agriculture, Chemical and Life Sciences, Physical & Numerical Sciences, Economics & Business and Social Sciences. The Pashtunkhwa College of Art, Womans' College and the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College are also constituent colleges of the university.

## Faculties and departments

Abdul Wali Khan University consists of six faculties, which have the following departments:

### Faculty of Arts & Humanities

* English
* Pakhtunkhwa College of Arts
* Islamic Studies
* Pashto
* Museum

### Faculty Agriculture

● Agronomy
● Entomology
● Food Science and Technology
● Horticulture

### Faculty of Business & Economics

* Economics
* Institute of Business Studies and Leadership
* Management Sciences
* Museum
* Tourism & Hospitality

### Faculty of Chemical & Life Sciences

* Biochemistry
* Biotechnology
* Botany
* Chemistry
* College of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Sciences
* Environmental Sciences
* Microbiology
* Pharmacy
* Zoology

### Faculty of Technologies & Engineering Sciences

* Computer Science
* Mathematics

### Faculty of Numerical and Physical Sciences

* Physics
* Statistics
* Geology

### Faculty of Social Sciences

* Education
* International Relations (IR)
* Political Science
* Physical Education & Sports
* Journalism & Mass Communication
* Law
* Pakistan Studies
* Psychology
* Sociology

## University Institutes and Colleges

* Institute of Business Studies and Leadership
* University College for Women
* Pakhtunkhwa College of Arts
* College of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Sciences

## Campuses and libraries

The university has several campuses, each with library facilities:
* Main Campus—Central Library
* Garden Campus
* Pabbi Campus
* Palosa Campus
* Riffat Mahal Campus
* Shankar Campus
There is also a digital library serving all campuses.

### University College of Science, Shankar

The University College of Science in Shankar has departments of Chemistry and Computer Science. It is housed in a 12.5-acre complex with state-of-the-art research laboratories. It has full-fledged working laboratories in physical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and computer science. A video lecture facility is also available.

### Garden Campus

The newly constructed Garden Campus of the university is spread over on more than 2000 Kanals of land having state of the art infrastructure, well equipped laboratories, one of the biggest libraries of the region, computer labs, three hostels with a capacity of 1500 students, two on campus colleges, sports complex and many other facilities. Classes in the campus have been started.

## Journals

* Tahdhīb al Afkār
Tahdhīb al Afkārbiannual is the biannual Islamic studies research journal of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan published in three different languages English, Urdu and Arabic.
* Journal of Business and Tourism
* Pakhtunkhwa Journal of Life Science (PJLS)

## Extra-curricular activities

The university provides extra-curricular activities such as painting, articles, photography and sport. The students can participate through proper channels. The university provides facilities for many sports; they have been merged into the Department of Physical Education and Health and named as Department of Physical Education and Sports.

## Academic collaborations

Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan establish partnerships with national as well as international universities, associations, institutes and academies and have signed a memorandum of understanding(MOUs or MoUs) with each. The following is the list of international collaborations.
| S/N | University / association | Country |
| 1 | Birmingham City University | United Kingdom |
| 2 | Brunel University London | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 4 | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) | United Kingdom |
| 5 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
| 6 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 7 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 8 | University of Rostock | Germany |
| 9 | University of Ulm | Germany |
| 10 | University of Malaya | Malaysia |
| 11 | University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM) | Malaysia |
| 12 | Sejong University | South Korea |
| 13 | Kyungpook National University | South Korea |
| 14 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 15 | University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 16 | University of Camerino | Italy |
| 17 | Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus | Turkey |
| 18 | Pamukkale University | Turkey |
| 19 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University | Turkey |
| 20 | Eskişehir Osmangazi University | Turkey |
| 21 | Şırnak University | Turkey |
| 22 | University of Kentucky | United States |
| 23 | North Dakota State University | United States |
| 24 | University of Missouri-Kansas City | United States |
| 25 | Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University | Thailand |
| 26 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand |
| 27 | Massey University | New Zealand |
| 28 | Eastern European University Association | Russia |
| 29 | Hanns Seidel Foundation | Germany |
| 30 | Relief International UK | United States |
| 31 | Promotion of Education in Pakistan (PEP) Foundation, Inc. | United States |

## Mashal Khan incident

On 13 April 2017, Mashal Khan, a journalism student at the university, was murdered by a mob apparently including university employees and some of his classmates on the false suspicion of uploading blasphemous content on the social networking site Facebook.

## Vice Chancellors

* Dr. Ihsan Ali (SI) (2009 – March 20, 2017)
* Dr. Mohammad Khurshid Khan (September 18, 2017 – March 20, 2020)
* Dr. Zahoor-ul-Haq
(May 1, 2020–Present)