Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

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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. Named after Abdul Wali Khan, the university has forty nine institutions affiliated with it. The university started in the historical postgraduate college of Mardan. It has nine campuses and more than ten thousand students enrolled in thirty one disciplines as of 2015. 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. 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 consists of six faculties, which have the following departments:

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

The university has several campuses, each with library facilities:

Main Campus—Central Library Garden Campus Pabbi Campus Palosa Campus Riffat Mahal Campus Shankar Campus There is also a digital library serving all campuses.

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.

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.

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.

Journal of Business and Tourism Pakhtunkhwa Journal of Life Science (PJLS)

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

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.

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.

Dr. Ihsan Ali (SI) (2009 – March 20, 2017) Dr. Mohammad Khurshid Khan (September 18, 2017 – March 20, 2020) Dr. Zahoor-ul-Haq (1 May 2020– 8 May 2025) Dr. Jamil Ahmad (May 9, 2025 – Present)

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.