University of Sindh

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The University of Sindh (Urdu: جامعه سندھ) is the second-oldest university in Pakistan. It worked solely as an examining body from 1947 to 1951. However, when it moved from Karachi to Hyderabad in 1951, it started functioning as a full-fledged teaching university. The Department of Education was the first teaching department, later which was raised to the status of Faculty of Education. The departments of basic science disciplines as well as other departments were added during the mid-fifties.

The present campus of the university is at Jamshoro, which is about 15 kilometers from the city of Hyderabad. This campus is named after Allama I.I. Kazi, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University. Most of the teaching departments under the Faculty of Science were shifted to Allama I.I. Kazi campus in early sixties. Currently the University has affiliation of 4 law colleges, and 43 degree and post-graduate colleges with it.

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