The academic, administrative and financial affairs shall be fully independent and autonomous controlled by the Director of the Planwel University. The information technology industry is the fastest growing global industry. The combined business of computer hardware, Telecommunications , software and related support services already exceed one trillion US dollars. The growth prospects and high profitability of these high technology industries and perhaps more important, the strategic importance of the core technological competencies associated with producing and applying IT have attracted the attention of both the industrialized and developing countries. Software production is nowadays an industry, essential for the growth of the economy and as such the launching of programs to promote strong and indigenous software industries is a priority task.
Software engineers are some of the most sought after professionals in the world today.
Pakistan currently produces less than 200 international quality software engineers annually. The local demand for software engineers is not met by this number . There is widespread agreement that the single most important input to the software production process is skilled labor but equally that the relative lack of such skilled labor is the most serious constraints to software industry development. The ALCoS program offered on the pattern of a franchise which will have an identified value and standard of quality in the software market. This will ensure that ALCoS will immediately after its registration will assume a profile which is associated with identified levels of quality.