Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
The Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) 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.
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 fellow 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 (Sep 18, 2017 – march 20,2020)
Dr. Zahoor-ul-Haq
(May 1, 2020–Present)
References
External links
Universities and colleges established in 2009
2009 establishments in Pakistan
Mardan
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Education scandals
Mardan District