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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.[1] Named after Abdul Wali Khan, the university has forty nine institutions affiliated with it.[2][3] The university started in the historical postgraduate college of Mardan.[4] It has nine campuses and more than ten thousand students enrolled in thirty one disciplines as of 2015.[2] The campus at Swabi, opened in October 2010 in the Anbar Elementary College building has since then become the University of Swabi. The Palosa campus is home to Bacha Khan University.[5] 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.

Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Motto
پوهه رنړا ده
TypePublic
EstablishedApril, 2009
AffiliationsHigher Education Commission (Pakistan), Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council, Pharmacy Council of Pakistan, Pakistan Bar Council
ChancellorChief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Vice-ChancellorDr. Jamil Ahmad
ProvostAbdul Samad Khan Marwat
Pro Vice-ChancellorDr. Zahir Shah
Academic staff
501; 196 PhD's & 138 MPhil
Students~15,345
Location
Mardan
,
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
,
Pakistan

34°09′03″N 72°02′51″E / 34.1509°N 72.0474°E / 34.1509; 72.0474
Campus
  • Main Campus
  • Garden Campus
  • University College for Women
  • University College of Science Shankar
  • Riffat Mahal Campus
  • Rashid Hussain Shaheed Campus
  • Pabbi Campus
Colours    Green, red, brown
Websiteawkum.edu.pk
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Faculties and departments

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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 of 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) - where a brilliant scholar Dr. Dalir Khan Khattak also teaches.
  • Political Science
  • Physical Education & Sports
  • Journalism & Mass Communication
  • Law
  • Pakistan Studies
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

University Institutes and Colleges

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

Campuses and libraries

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The university has several campuses, each with library facilities:

  • Main Campus—Central Library
  • Garden Campus[5]
  • Pabbi Campus
  • Palosa Campus
  • Riffat Mahal Campus
  • Shankar Campus

There is also a digital library serving all campuses.[6]

University College of Science, Shankar

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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

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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.[7]

Journals

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  • 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.[8]

  • Journal of Business and Tourism[9]
  • Pakhtunkhwa Journal of Life Science (PJLS)[10]

Extra-curricular activities

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The university provides extra-curricular activities such as painting, articles, photography and sport. The students can participate through proper channels.[11] 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.[12]

Academic collaborations

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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.[13][14][15][16]

S/NUniversity / associationCountry
1Birmingham City UniversityUnited Kingdom
2Brunel University London
3Durham University
4School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London)
5University of Leicester
6University of Sheffield
7University of Southampton
8University of RostockGermany
9University of UlmGermany
10University of MalayaMalaysia
11University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM)Malaysia
12Sejong UniversitySouth Korea
13Kyungpook National UniversitySouth Korea
14Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
15University of BarcelonaSpain
16University of CamerinoItaly
17Eastern Mediterranean University, North CyprusTurkey
18Pamukkale UniversityTurkey
19Recep Tayyip Erdoğan UniversityTurkey
20Eskişehir Osmangazi UniversityTurkey
21Şırnak UniversityTurkey
22University of KentuckyUnited States
23North Dakota State UniversityUnited States
24University of Missouri-Kansas CityUnited States
25Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat UniversityThailand
26Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand
27Massey UniversityNew Zealand
28Eastern European University AssociationRussia
29Hanns Seidel FoundationGermany
30Relief International UKUnited States
31Promotion of Education in Pakistan (PEP) Foundation, Inc.United States

Mashal Khan incident

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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.[17][18][19]

Vice Chancellors

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References

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  1. ↑ "University Info". AWKUM. Archived from the original on 12 November 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Wali Khan varsity marks foundation day today". Dawn. 24 February 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "49 colleges affiliated with AWK University, says VC". The News. 27 February 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Sadia Qasim Shah (15 June 2013). "It's time new KP varsities offer quality education". Dawn. Retrieved 11 September 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. 1 2 Muhammad Farooq (24 October 2010). "Hoti inaugurates Wali Khan varsity campus in Swabi". The News. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  6. ↑ "Libraries". AWKUM. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "Garden Campus construction".
  8. ↑ "Tahdhīb al Afkār". tahdhibalafkar.com.
  9. ↑ JBT
  10. ↑ PJLS
  11. ↑ "Extra Curricular activities". AWKUM. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  12. ↑ "Sports". AWKUM. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  13. ↑ "Welcome to AWKUM". www.awkum.edu.pk. Archived from the original on 2012-10-13.
  14. ↑ "AWKUM signs MoU with Victoria University - Daily the Patriot". 13 October 2014.
  15. ↑ "MoU signed between two universities of Pakistan and Turkey".
  16. ↑ "AWKU signs MoU with University of Camerino Italy". 8 November 2013.
  17. ↑ "Mardan university students beat 'liberal' classmate to death". samaa.tv. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  18. ↑ "Three AWKU employees among 13 arrested in Mashal Khan case". tribune.com. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  19. ↑ "Khattak for judicial probe into student lynching". nation.com. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
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