about
habib university
Since its founding in 2014, Habib University, a private, not-for-profit institution, was instilled with a mission to produce thoughtful graduates who think critically and are passionate about contributing to the world. As Pakistan’s premier undergraduate liberal arts and sciences university, we bring together world-class scholars and faculty to our campus in Karachi to offer students an interdisciplinary and global education. With our unparalleled majors, minors, and student-centric support services, we fuse theory and experience to ensure students’ original ideas are nurtured even beyond the classroom. Our undergraduate scholarship and financial aid are among the most substantial in the nation, made possible by a generous community of supporters dedicated to building lasting institutions and shaping the futures of young talented minds across Pakistan.
Quick Facts
85%
students on scholarship
12:1
Student-Faculty ratio
54%: 46%
Gender Ratio
100%
HU faculty with advanced degrees
6
Majors Ranging across humanities and sciences
11
minors To help diversify educational experience
100%
Retention rate
100%
Graduation rate
- 01 / 09
About
Habib University
At Habib University, our commitment to academic excellence is unwavering. Rooted in a dynamic liberal arts and sciences education, our academic programs are designed to foster critical thinking, creativity, and leadership skills in our students.
Vision, Mission, Values &
Learning Goals
At Habib University, our commitment to academic excellence is unwavering. Rooted in a dynamic liberal arts and sciences education, our academic programs are designed to foster critical thinking, creativity, and leadership skills in our students.
Liberal Arts Model
As Pakistan’s only exclusively undergraduate-focused liberal arts and sciences university in Karachi, Habib University leverages this American liberal arts model and has developed a distinctive world-class liberal arts curriculum that is contextually relevant and grounded to our South Asian context and heritage.
Office of president
Pakistan has never needed a liberal arts education more than it does now. This model of education makes for a new way of thinking and learning, forming a new lens to view the world with a unique movement to change the world with. Habib University aims to be one with this movement.
University Leaders
As Pakistan’s only exclusively undergraduate-focused liberal arts and sciences university in Karachi, Habib University leverages this American liberal arts model and has developed a distinctive world-class liberal arts curriculum that is contextually relevant and grounded to our South Asian context and heritage.
The House of Habib
The House of Habib (HoH) is an established conglomerate headquartered in Pakistan. Its commercial accomplishments aside, it is equally famous for its philanthropic contributions to the development of Pakistani society.
About
Habib University
Since its founding in 2014, Habib University, a private, not-for-profit institution, was instilled with a mission to produce thoughtful graduates who think critically and are passionate about contributing to the world. As Pakistan’s first undergraduate liberal arts and sciences university, we bring together world-class scholars and faculty to our campus in Karachi to offer students an interdisciplinary and global education. With our unparalleled majors, minors, and student-centric support services, we fuse theory and experience to ensure students’ original ideas are nurtured even beyond the classroom. Our undergraduate scholarship and financial aid are among the most substantial in the nation, made possible by a generous community of supporters dedicated to building lasting institutions and shaping the futures of young talented minds across Pakistan.
Chartered by the Government of Sindh in 2012 and recognized by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan with specialized programmatic accreditations from PEC and NCEAC.
Our Story
Habib University was borne out of a sense of crisis – that higher education in Pakistan has failed to produce the sort of conscientious individuals capable of understanding the growing problems of the modern world, to engage with them, and help solve and repair them. The University therefore rose to address three key challenges, namely, a dysfunctional academic framework, disenfranchisement along class lines, and a lack of societal support for higher education. Through an expansive liberal arts curriculum, Habib University offers every meritorious student, regardless of background, a unique academic experience that harmonizes disciplines across the sciences and humanities, rooted in our regional history, culture and traditions, while imbuing them with a global outlook.
Vision, Mission, Core Values
Vision
To be a global leader and South Asia’s preeminent undergraduate liberal arts and sciences university.
Mission
Habib University’s mission is shaping futures. The University accomplishes this mission by providing a demanding, contextually relevant and engaging world class liberal arts and sciences education to the most talented students, regardless of their financial capacity or any social considerations, thereby empowering them to build their futures, enrich their lives and become leaders in improving their country and the world.
University Leadership
Senior Leadership
Quick Facts
85%
students on scholarship
12:1
Student-Faculty ratio
54%: 46%
Gender Ratio
100%
HU faculty with advanced degrees
6
Majors Ranging across humanities and sciences
11
minors To help diversify educational experience
100%
Retention rate
100%
Graduation rate
