KU starts admissions in PGD in Statistics

Karachi, University of Karachi has started admissions in Post Graduate Diploma in Statistics and admission forms for PGD in Statistics are available in the respective department.

Sources said that the forms could be collected and accepted by December 21.

List of successful candidates for admission will be displayed on notice board on December 26. Fees will be submitted from December 27 to January 4, it was declared.

Sources further said that classes would commence from January 7, 2013.

Classes for PGD Statistics are held from 3:00pm to 5:30pm. After completion of this one year PGD in Statistics students who have completed BA/B.Sc/B.Com (Biological Sciences) becomes eligible for admission in M.A/M.Sc in Statistics and Masters in Computer Science (MCS).

The University of Karachi was established by an act of Pakistan parliament in June, 1951. The present campus, to which the University shifted in 1959, is spread over 1279 acres of land, situated 12 Km away from the city center.

Today University is recognized as a leading center of learning and research in the Subcontinent and in the Third World. A number of scientists and scholars affiliated with the University are working in important positions both within and outside Pakistan and have won gratitude and acclaim.

One of the institutes of the University has got the distinction of being made the Centre of the Third World Academy of Sciences. Students from several foreign countries are also pursuing for the Masters and Doctorate degrees. Because of high academic and research standards of the University a large number of students from Karachi and other parts of the country apply for admission here.

The University has started evening classes in several departments at BS and Masters Levels and a Directorate of Evening Program was established to control and run Evening Program.

At present teaching at the University campus is conducted under six faculties: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Management & Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Pharmacy.