Ghazi University
Ghazi University is a university in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan. The university was established in 2012 at the initiative of the Chief Minister of the Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. It is named after Baloch leaderGhazi Khan.
In 2025, Nature published an article placing the university high among those with the largest amount of academic paper retractions as of 2024.
History
In 1998, the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad opened its sub-campus as a college of agriculture at Dera Ghazi Khan. In 2004, Bahauddin Zakariya University also established its sub-campus there. On 11 July 2014 the College of Agriculture DG Khan, BZU Sub-campus, Postgraduate Degree College and Ghazi Medical College were given the status of Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan.Administration
The university has an administration office at City Campus.Departments
Currently there are four faculties and 21 departments working at Ghazi University:Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Agronomy
- Department of Horticulture
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
- Department of Plant Protection
- Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Department of English
- Department of Islamic Studies
- Department of History and Pakistan Studies
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Urdu
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of Economics
- Department of Education
- Department of Sociology
- Department of Botany
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Computer Science & IT
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Zoology
Programs are:
BS MBA, BBA, MBA Executive, MBA-IT, MCS, MSc Economics and MA English.
The campus has added a program of MSc Sociology. The Medical Science department has 50 teachers and 2,500 students.
Ghazi Khan Medical College
Facilities
The university is situated in the center of city near pull daat and college chowk. There are two buildings of this university. One is at college chowk where students are recently studying and other is at Airport road. The campus at College road is called City Campus and the Campus at Airport road is called airport campus. The Airport campus is under construction.The university has 1,189 acres of land in front of Airport. There are 185 classrooms, a 71-room administration block, five libraries, 39 laboratories, five hostels and seven sports grounds. There are more than 137,000 books and 464 journals in the five libraries.
The university has 6,500 students.