Great University.but expensive. Habib University (HU) is an independentliberal arts university located in Karachi,Sindh, Pakistan. Funded by the House of Habib, the Habib University Foundation was established in 2010, and was chartered in 2012 as an independent university. Based on a 6.3 acres (295,800 sq ft.) campus in Gulistan-e-Jauhar,Karachi, it is a multi-disciplinary varsity offering undergraduate degree's in science,engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences. It has a strong liberal arts focus and requires all students all its students to take a set of liberal arts courses consisting of sociology, history, philosophy and anthropology. In 2010, the House of Habib formed the Habib University Foundation (a not-for-profit organization).[8] The project was launched with a grant of US$40 million. Construction on the campus in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi began in 2012, after the charter for establishment of was passed by Sindh Assembly in June of that year.[9][10]
Through its various trusts, it is also involved in managing welfare centers for children, hospitals and blood banks, and in providing medical aid and housing to the less privileged. At present, the family manages several child welfare centers, medical institutions and trusts, including the Dawood Habib Home, the Hussaini Blood Bank, the Masoomeen Hospital, the Al-Sayyeda Benevolent Trust, the Habib Education Trust, the Habib Medical Trust, and the Rehmatbai Habib Widows and Orphans Trust.[11]
The (HU) city campus covers an area of 6.8 Acres (295,800 sq ft.).[12][13] The university has a joint venture contract with Texas A&M University at Qatar and is collaborating withCarnegie Mellon University, United States for reciprocal sharing of institutional experience and has signed a partnership agreement for the association.[14]
HU's first class of undergraduate students began in August 2014. HU Talent Outreach Program (TOPS) launched in 2016 provides selected students a tuition fee waiver for four-year undergraduate program.[15] Wasif Rizvi (M.Ed, Harvard) is the founding President of the university. The university incorporates a liberal arts education with cultural sensitivity within its curriculum. It is mandatory for every student studying at to follow the liberal arts curriculum in all its offered courses. In addition to languages, all students are required to study a liberal arts curriculum comprises sociology, history, philosophy – Western, Eastern and Islamic – and anthropology.[23] The university terms this a "Habib Core Curriculum" based on seven “Forms of Thought". These include:[24]
Historical and Social ThoughtPhilosophical ThoughtLanguage and ExpressionCreative PracticeFormal ReasoningQuantitative ReasoningNatural Scientific Method and Analysis
The university offers four majors including Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Social Development & Policy and Communication & Design. All classes are modelled after a tutorial system which includes small classes of no more than a dozen students each.[25]
The university has affiliations with Stanford University,[26] Pitzer College, University of Michigan,[27] Carnegie Mellon University,LUMS,[28] University of California, Berkeley,[29]and Texas A&M University; allowing student's to attend summer sessions at these varsities.[30][31] It has a student to teacher ratio of 12:1,[32] its campus is located inGulistan-e-Jauhar and, as of 2016, has 1,000 full-time students.[33] It's academic staff is led by Dr. Asif Farrukhi, the Dean of School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Interim Dean of School of Science and Engineering, Dr. Mohammad Shahid Sheikh. The university is regarded as among Pakistan's most progressive education institute.
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