Observer Report
Bahawalpur
The new academic session for fall 2019 has started at the Islamia University (IUB) of Bahawalpur.
Under the leadership of new Vice Chancellor Engr Prof Dr Athar Mahboob, the university launched a comprehensive admission campaign for the first time offering 122 morning and 84 evening programmes at Undergraduate, Master, MPhil and PhD level in all the seven faculties across five campuses located in Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan.
The university in order to maximize the usage of underutilized resources, offered admissions in evening programmes after a gap of 5 years. As a result of these measures, the admission office received 57,656 admission applications bringing record intake in the university history. Engr Prof Dr Athar Mahboob, on this occasion welcomed the new comers in a message and congratulated them having been successful to win a valuable seat amongst a huge number of applicants this year.
He assure that they will feel the sense of pride to get associated with one of prestigious universities of Pakistan. The Vice Chancellor added that both the administrative as well as academic staff are highly devoted, and synchronized with the true vision and mission of the university to achieve academic excellence, and to ensure the preparation of a greater future workforce for several institutions of Pakistan.
