The Peshawar university founded in 1950 AD. Is the out growth of Islamia college, Peshawar which was established in 1913 AD. By late Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan. The first chief minister of NWFP. His name and another prominent political figure, Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan laid the foundation of the university during his tenure as chief minister of NWFP.

The university campus is spread over an area of 1.000 acres. During the course of 50 years it has grown into big town ship. It is situated at a distance of about 8 kilometers from Peshawar cantonment along the Khyber road on the way to Khyber Pass. It is a resident university and all most all the teaching staff; student and employees live there. The campus has its own shopping center. Hospital, post office and banks. A big hospital has been constructed to provide the training facilities to the medical students whom at present studying In Khyber medical college. In addition, there are Pakistan Rural Academy and Pakistan Forest Institute located at campus. Besides teaching requirements at the university, authorities have not over looked the sports and other extra curricular activities. Facilities for all types of recognized out door and in door games have been provided. College and university tournaments are held regularly in games like hockey, football, cricket, swimming, badminton, volleyball, basket ball, tennis, boating, shooting and athletics.

There are teacher student center and various types of unions and associations to provide the students debating forum. The university has a big library with nearly 100,000 books and manuscripts.

Since its establishment as a College of Engineering in 1952, this institution has been training Engineers upto the first degree level in all the major disciplines of engineering. In 1980 it got its separate identity as University and started Bachelor's degree course in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, Agriculture and Mining Engineering.In 1995 the Department of Chemical Engineering has added with the intake of 25 students. After gaining the status of an Engineering University in 1980, efforts were focussed on introducing postgraduate studies in various disciplines. As a first step, in 1984, postgraduate courses leading to M.Sc. degree were started in Civil Engineering. In 1990 the remaining departments also started postgraduate programmes. The University is also planning to start M.Phil/Ph.D. programme in the near future.

Agriculture education was introduced into the curriculum of Islamia College,Peshawar in 1933. The College of Agriculture was set up in 1957 as a constituent college of the University of Peshawar. The four year B.Sc. degree programme after matriculation,followed prior to the establishment of the College of Agriculture,was discontinued. A revised curriculum was started in 1957,in which students with matriculation were admitted to a five years degree programme leading to the award of B.Sc. Hons. classes were started in different disciplines, i.e Agricultural Chemistry,Agronomy,Animal Science,Entomology,Horticulture and food technology

The college was upgraded to a status of Faculty of Agriculture under the University of Peshawar in 1974.

A University was promised by the father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1948. The foundation of Peshawar University was laid down by the first Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan in 1950. The University occupies the site of the ancient Budhist Academy. The Khyber Medical College lies in the campus on the historic caravan route that brought conquerors from Central Asia to this Sub-continent. Now instead of warriors, students from several parts of the world flock to this institution in search of knowledge that alleviates human suffering.

The foundation of the college was laid by the Governor General of Pakistan Mr. Ghulam Mohammad in 1954. It strives to expand steadily to meet growing requirements of the people of this province. To look after dental health of the people of NWFP, a Dentistry Department (BDS) was founded in KMC in 1964 by Sahibzadi Mahmooda Salim the Health Minister at that time. The Department of Dentistry was converted into an independent college at the time of its Silver Jubilee celebration and named as "Khyber College of Dentistry" in January 1990.

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