Iqra University

Iqra University, (Urdu: دانش گاہِ اقراَ) is a Private University primarily with its main campus located in the Defence View area of Karachi, Pakistan.^[1] It has additional campuses in other parts of the city, in Islamabad and Peshawar. Iqra University was ranked as the number 1 business school in Pakistan by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan in the rankings announced in 2016.^[2] Iqra University also collaborates with universities of international repute for student exchange program.

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Iqra National University

دانش گاہِ اقراَ
Former names	Asian Management Institute (AMI)
Motto	We are what we consistently do; excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)
Type	Private
Established	1998 (1998)
Chairman	Hunaid H. Lakhani
Chancellor	Erum Asad
Vice-Chancellor	Nassar Ikram
Registrar	Imtiaz Arif
Academic staff	~250
Administrative staff	~500
Students	~85,000
Location	Karachi , Sindh , Pakistan Residential
Colours	Klein, Denim[broken anchor], White
Nickname	IU
Affiliations	Pakistan Engineering Council, Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)
Website	www.iqra.edu.pk

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Chartered by the Government of Sindh, Iqra university was founded as Asian Management Institute (AMI) in 1998, by a group of Karachi-based industrialists. Later, the university name was updated to "Iqra University" after being granted the status of university by HEC in 2002. In 2015, Iqra University inaugurated its North Campus (named Iqra University North Campus Archived 2016-10-29 at the Wayback Machine^[3]).

It was ranked in the top three business higher education institutions by HEC in 2015.^[4] Also, the university has the largest research publication output of other higher learning institutions of the country.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

The university was founded by Pakistani businessman Hunaid Lakhani, founding chancellor and Chairman, who served as the president of Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal Sindh.

Co-founder: Mrs. Erum Asad

Vice Chancellor / President: Dr. Nassar Ikram

Registrar: Mr. Aseem Majid Rizvi

Main Campus

Gulshan

AIFD-(Clifton)

N. Nbd.

Location of Iqra University campuses in Karachi

The university offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral studies programmes in engineering, film studies, management sciences, administration, and related social and natural sciences disciplines.^[12] University also offers associate degrees in different disciplines.

University offers degrees in different departments.

The Information Resource Centre (IRC) at Iqra University has around 80000 volumes on various themes, including all curriculum topics, professional reading material, and general reading material. One of the greatest sources of secondary data is the Information Resource Centre, which keeps an up-to-date database of government publications related to the curriculum.

Iqra University was ranked at no.01 in Business as per Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) rankings 2012.^[13] According to the HEC 2015 ranking, Iqra University was in the first position in Pakistan in the Business category.

Latest figures from ISI Thompson shown that IQRA University has published more research papers than the other top business schools of Pakistan.^{[5][6][7][8][9]} In 2011, Iqra University was ranked as the no. 1 among all private institutions. ^[5]

In a meeting held on July 13, 2012, NCEAC-HEC (National Computing Education Accreditation Council of Higher Education Commission) has granted accreditation to the Computer Science Program of Iqra University for the batches graduating in the academic years 2008–12, 2009–13 and 2010–14. NCEAC-HEC also evaluated the quality standard of the said program and placed it into the top most ranking (W-Category).^[14]