Faculty of Science and Technology

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Prof. W. Crank, Prof. T.W. Lindsay, Prof. J.C. Oman, Prof. L. Ruchi Ram Sahini, Prof. S.B. Mukerji, Prof. G.N. Chatterjee, Prof. L. Shiv Ram Kashyap, Prof. George Mathai, Dr. J. Stephenson, Prof. H.S. Hemmy, Prof. H.B. Dunnicliff, Prof. A.C. Joshi, Dr. Sultan Ahmed, Dr. Rafi Mohammad Chaudhry, and the Nobel Laureate Dr. Abdus Salam.

Today, various branches of science are patronized in GCU. It offers study of science subjects at Intermediate, Graduate and Post-Graduate levels. At intermediate level, it is a feeding University for professional institutions like Medical Colleges and Engineering Universities. Almost every year, GCU holds to positions in science groups in the Board Final Examination. The University offers MS/M.Phil & Phd Programmes in the subjects of Botany, Zoology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry. The University has also registered Phd students in the subjects of Botany and Zoology and envisages PhD Programmes. The University has excellent, modern and well-equipped laboratories.

GCU has played a truly pioneering role in promoting research and enquiry in the country, particularly in the disciplines of Physical and Biological Sciences. Suffice to say that it has a reputation of academic excellence based on an impressive record of achievement in teaching and research. The research carried out by such scholars in the Department of Botany as Dr. Sultan Ahmed had been acknowledged abroad. The work carried out in Theoretical Physics by Dr. Abdus Salam, who studied in this University and later chaired the Department of Mathematics, won him a Nobel Prize. Equally significant for the country was Dr. Rafi Muhammad Chaudhri, who founded the Centre for Advanced Studies in Physics (CASP) at the University. CASP houses the Cock Croft Walton Accelerator, the only atom Smasher machine in Pakistan. CASP helps physicists towards the investigation of atomic collision and nuclear reaction. It was indeed the great research scholars and physicists trained at this Centre who established Pakistan as a nuclear power in the world.

GCU has always kept pace with the changing times and trends. Aware of the present and the future needs and expectations of the country, our faculties offer a varied and innovative range of study programmes. The Department of Computer Science was established few years back. The Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Sustainable Development Study Centre, and Industrial Chemistry are to name just a few where research oriented learning is taking place rigorously with highly dedicated faculty and equally enthusiastic students.

Faculty of Languages, Islamic and Oriental Learning

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the broadening of students’ vision. Familiarity with the great masters of human expression has a catalytic and salubrious effect on the minds of students. It widens their mental horizon, invigorates their capacity to think, and enriches their intellectual content. A mind thus trained is more efficient and capable of responding to the basic human problems.

GCU follows a well-balanced policy. The ultimate aim of education is to reshape a healthy personality, and this can be done if the teaching faculties are developed harmoniously. Lop-sidedness, whether physical or mental, grows either grotesque or monstrous. Hence, preference is given to the study of Humanities at GCU so as to keep alive its image as a truly liberal institution.

The University, in its long history, has been lucky to have teachers and scholars who contributed richly towards liberal education. They include Dr. G.W. Leitner, Dr. Sime, Dr. T.W. Arnold, Prof. Muhammad Hussain Azad, Prof. Jiya Ram, Prof. P.S. Allen, Prof. H.L.O. Garrett, Prof. G.D Sondhi, Prof. Robinson, Prof. Ahmed Shah (Patras) Bokhari, Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum, Prof. Sirajuddin, Prof. U.Karmet and Khawaja Manzoor Hussain.

The University offers a wide choice of academic disciplines with flexible study patterns that meet the needs and interests of the students at intermediate and degree levels. The best standards of education are offered to enhance the recognition of students’ individuality and their personal development over the years they spend here.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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the University. The aim and purpose of this policy is clear.

In ancient philosophy there was no difference between mathematics and study of politics or history. The difference arises with the development of mathematical laws or models.

Industrialism created series of social, economic, political and management problems, other than this management of multi-national enterprises, NGOs and Governmental organizations involved bulk of data. Thus, the reduction of information to make decisions became an immense need. Therefore the creation of mass education system to train individuals in symbolic reasoning emerges.

In the beginning of 19^th century statistical methods came into use extensively. The idea that human society could be studied scientifically gained prominence. The rise of statistical thinking started affecting humanities at large.  Consequently, the study of humanities begins emphasizing scientific methods. As a result, the academic disciplines that study human aspects emerge as social sciences.

At first the term “social sciences” was introduced by William Thompson in 1824.

The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. They diverge from the arts and humanity and in that the social sciences tend to emphasize the use of the qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of humanity.

The social sciences, in studying subjective, inter-subjective and objective or structural aspects of society, were traditionally referred to as soft sciences, hard sciences and natural sciences. This is in contrast to disciplines which may focus exclusively on objective aspects of nature. Nowadays, however, the distinction between the so-called soft and hard sciences is blurred. Some social science subfields have become very quantitative in methodology or behavioral in approach. Conversely, the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary nature of scientific inquiry into human behavior and social and environmental factors affecting it have made many of the so-called hard sciences dependent on social science methodology. Examples of boundary blurring include emerging disciplines like social studies, history and sociology of sciences. Increasingly, quantitative and qualitative methods are being integrated in the study of human action and its implications and consequences. Besides, GCU is the first public sector institution to provide Business Education at Bachelors level.