List of universities in Pakistan
University Location Established Specialization Type
1 Islamia College University Peshawar 1913 General Public
2 Pakistan Military Academy Abbotabad 1947 General Public , Pakistan Army
3 University of Peshawar Peshawar 1950 General Public
4 Gomal University Dera Ismail Khan 1974 General Public
5 University of Engineering and Technology , Peshawar Peshawar 1980 General Public
6 University of Agriculture , Peshawar Peshawar 1981 General Public
7 Preston University Kohat 1984 General Private
8 CECOS University of Information Technology and Emerging Sciences Peshawar 1986 General Private
9 Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology Swabi 1988 General Private
10 Kohat University of Science and Technology Kohat 2001 General Public
11 University of Malakand Lower Dir 2001 General Public
12 Qurtuba University Peshawar 2001 General Private
13 Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology Peshawar 2001 General Private
14 City University of Science and Information Technology , Peshawar Peshawar 2001 General Private
15 Hazara University Mansehra 1997 General Public
16 Gandhara University Peshawar 2002 General Private
17 Northern University , Nowshera Nowshera 2002 General Private
18 Institute of Management Sciences ( Peshawar ) Peshawar 1995 General Public
19 University of Science and Technology ( Bannu ) Bannu 2005 General Public
20 Khyber Medical University Peshawar 2007 General Public
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Higher education in Pakistan is the systematic process of students continuing their education beyond secondary school, learned societies and two-year colleges. The governance of higher education is maintained under the Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) (HEC) which oversees the financial funding, research outputs and teaching quality in the country. In Pakistan, the higher education system includes the public, private and military universities, all accredited by the HEC. Since independence, new universities have expanded throughout the country with support provided by the University Grants Commission (UGC), which had been an autonomous institution of recognizing universities until 2002 when it was preceded by the Higher Education Commission. Pakistan produces about 445,000 university graduates and 10,000 computer science graduates annually. Following public and private higher education institutions are active in the country: