Bahria University
Introduction
Bahria University was established by the Pakistan Navy in 2000, and since then it has slowly and steadily grown into one of the leading higher education institutions in Pakistan. It plays a major role in grooming future leaders who can make a positive difference to the world around them.
We are a multi-campus university whose aim is to achieve the highest standards in teaching, learning and research. We offer an expanding portfolio of programmes which caters to a wide variety of interests ranging from business, computer sciences and psychology, to medical and dental health, and maritime research. Our students are given a competitive edge thanks to a distinguished faculty, an updated curriculum and state-of-the-art facilities.
Students arrive at Bahria with varied interests, ambitions, dreams and passions. We consider it our job to equip them with the skills, experiences, resources and the environment to enable them to turn their dreams and passions into success stories.
Vision
To become an internationally recognised university that contributes towards the development of nation through excelence in education and research.
History
It all started in the late nineteen-eighties when the Pakistan Navy entered the field of education and established two Institutes, one at Karachi and the other at Islamabad, and called them Bahria Institutes (‘Bahria’ means ‘Marine’ in Urdu). The two Institutes were designed to provide uninterrupted education up to Intermediate level for the children of naval personnel when they were transferred from one city to the other.
Over the years the two Institutes grew in size and facilities,
leading to the commencement of BBA and B.Sc (CS) classes in 1995. In
1997 these programmes were further upgraded to BBA (Hons), BSC (Hons)
and MBA and MSC, as evening programmes. The Institutes were known as
Bahria Institute of Management and Computer Science (BIM&CS),
suffixed with the location Karachi or Islamabad.
The Institute was finally upgraded to a university, the present Bahria University, on 7 February 2000 through a Presidential Ordnance. It was given a vide vision: to operate an educational system capable of providing state of the art facilities for imparting education not only to the children of naval personnel, but to all the people of Pakistan.
Bahria is a Federally Chartered Public Sector multi-campus university, which has its headquarters and a campus at Islamabad, while another campus and constituent units are located in Karachi. Starting with just two departments in 1995, five more were added over the next ten years. Campus buildings were custom built with state of the art facilities, high tech computer and electronic laboratories, and well stocked libraries that have free internet accessibility. The university’s total student population, including those of its constituent units, has been growing steadily and now hovers around 9,500.
Bahria University has four constituent units in the southern city of Karachi: the Karachi Campus, Bahria University Medical and Dental College, Institute of Professional Psychology and National Centre for Maritime Policy Research.
Looking at the future, Bahria University aims to meet the higher educational needs of not only the northern part of the province of Punjab but also of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Gilgit Baltistan region. And with the expected opening of trade routes with the Central Asian states, the university hopes to attract students from this region as well.
Rector's Message
Bahria University is one of the leading public sector universities of Pakistan, which is dedicated to meeting the many complex challenges facing us today. The university has campuses, research institutes and colleges all over Pakistan which work towards grooming today’s youth into becoming tomorrow’s leaders. We provide a platform for promising minds to come together, pioneer new thought and serve the world around them. And for this we provide the right mix of faculty, resources, environments and technology so that both learners and teachers are inspired to create, to explore, to discover, to challenge and to lead.
At Bahria it is our vision to make our university the best educational institute in the country. Our strategy to achieve this vision is to ensure that theory and practice go hand in hand. We would like to open all the doors for promoting the research potential of the students, which will enable them to use their academic knowledge for practical projects. To this end we have built bridges between the University and the corporate sector, opening the way for research, and making students apply their academic skills to practical projects.
And we aim for all this to take place in a university environment that is safe and friendly, and at the same time disciplined, as envisaged by the Quaid e Azam. Because we feel that along with studies it is equally important to develop the good old values of character, decency, honesty and consideration for one another.
We believe that young people should have a say in shaping their destinies, we therefore help them to discover their potential, prepare for life and help make a positive impact on the world around them. The unusually high youth population of Pakistan presents a wonderful opportunity for us to play a role in motivating young people to be passionate about rendering positive service to society, and make them be able to do so. Because real fulfilment for any person lies in service to his fellow human beings.
We are headed for a future in which educational institutions will increasingly be judged by the quality of the education they provide, by the kind of people they graduate and by the way in which those graduates choose to lead their lives. And we at Bahria University have been striving constantly to meet these challenges.
I invite you to visit Bahria University through this website or in person.
Bahria University was established by the Pakistan Navy in 2000, and since then it has slowly and steadily grown into one of the leading higher education institutions in Pakistan. It plays a major role in grooming future leaders who can make a positive difference to the world around them.
We are a multi-campus university whose aim is to achieve the highest standards in teaching, learning and research. We offer an expanding portfolio of programmes which caters to a wide variety of interests ranging from business, computer sciences and psychology, to medical and dental health, and maritime research. Our students are given a competitive edge thanks to a distinguished faculty, an updated curriculum and state-of-the-art facilities.
Students arrive at Bahria with varied interests, ambitions, dreams and passions. We consider it our job to equip them with the skills, experiences, resources and the environment to enable them to turn their dreams and passions into success stories.
Vision
To become an internationally recognised university that contributes towards the development of nation through excelence in education and research.
History
It all started in the late nineteen-eighties when the Pakistan Navy entered the field of education and established two Institutes, one at Karachi and the other at Islamabad, and called them Bahria Institutes (‘Bahria’ means ‘Marine’ in Urdu). The two Institutes were designed to provide uninterrupted education up to Intermediate level for the children of naval personnel when they were transferred from one city to the other.
Over the years the two Institutes grew in size and facilities,
leading to the commencement of BBA and B.Sc (CS) classes in 1995. In
1997 these programmes were further upgraded to BBA (Hons), BSC (Hons)
and MBA and MSC, as evening programmes. The Institutes were known as
Bahria Institute of Management and Computer Science (BIM&CS),
suffixed with the location Karachi or Islamabad.
The Institute was finally upgraded to a university, the present Bahria University, on 7 February 2000 through a Presidential Ordnance. It was given a vide vision: to operate an educational system capable of providing state of the art facilities for imparting education not only to the children of naval personnel, but to all the people of Pakistan.
Bahria is a Federally Chartered Public Sector multi-campus university, which has its headquarters and a campus at Islamabad, while another campus and constituent units are located in Karachi. Starting with just two departments in 1995, five more were added over the next ten years. Campus buildings were custom built with state of the art facilities, high tech computer and electronic laboratories, and well stocked libraries that have free internet accessibility. The university’s total student population, including those of its constituent units, has been growing steadily and now hovers around 9,500.
Bahria University has four constituent units in the southern city of Karachi: the Karachi Campus, Bahria University Medical and Dental College, Institute of Professional Psychology and National Centre for Maritime Policy Research.
Looking at the future, Bahria University aims to meet the higher educational needs of not only the northern part of the province of Punjab but also of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Gilgit Baltistan region. And with the expected opening of trade routes with the Central Asian states, the university hopes to attract students from this region as well.
Rector's Message
Bahria University is one of the leading public sector universities of Pakistan, which is dedicated to meeting the many complex challenges facing us today. The university has campuses, research institutes and colleges all over Pakistan which work towards grooming today’s youth into becoming tomorrow’s leaders. We provide a platform for promising minds to come together, pioneer new thought and serve the world around them. And for this we provide the right mix of faculty, resources, environments and technology so that both learners and teachers are inspired to create, to explore, to discover, to challenge and to lead.
At Bahria it is our vision to make our university the best educational institute in the country. Our strategy to achieve this vision is to ensure that theory and practice go hand in hand. We would like to open all the doors for promoting the research potential of the students, which will enable them to use their academic knowledge for practical projects. To this end we have built bridges between the University and the corporate sector, opening the way for research, and making students apply their academic skills to practical projects.
And we aim for all this to take place in a university environment that is safe and friendly, and at the same time disciplined, as envisaged by the Quaid e Azam. Because we feel that along with studies it is equally important to develop the good old values of character, decency, honesty and consideration for one another.
We believe that young people should have a say in shaping their destinies, we therefore help them to discover their potential, prepare for life and help make a positive impact on the world around them. The unusually high youth population of Pakistan presents a wonderful opportunity for us to play a role in motivating young people to be passionate about rendering positive service to society, and make them be able to do so. Because real fulfilment for any person lies in service to his fellow human beings.
We are headed for a future in which educational institutions will increasingly be judged by the quality of the education they provide, by the kind of people they graduate and by the way in which those graduates choose to lead their lives. And we at Bahria University have been striving constantly to meet these challenges.
I invite you to visit Bahria University through this website or in person.