Habib University

Habib University
دانش گاہِ حبیب
Motto قيمة كل امرىء ما يحسنه
Motto in English
Every Human Being’s worth is in their Yohsin (thoughtful self-cultivation)
TypePrivate
Established2014[1]
Endowment$40 million
ChancellorRafiq M. Habib
PresidentWasif Rizvi
Vice-presidentAamir Hasan
Location,
Pakistan
CampusUniversity Avenue in Gulistan-e-Jauhar[2]
Websitehabib.edu.pk

Habib University (HU) (Urdu: دانش گاہِ حبیب) is a university for Liberal arts education located in Karachi.[3][4]

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 university offering undergraduate degree's in science, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences. It has a strong liberal arts focus and requires all its students to take a set of liberal arts courses consisting of sociology, history, philosophy and anthropology.[5][6]

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