Punjab Group of Colleges | |
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Motto | Enter to learn, leave to serve! |
Chancellor | Mian Amir Mehmood |
Vice-Chancellor | Naib Hussain Chaudhary |
Location | , Pakistan |
Mascot | Punjabians |
Affiliations | Pakistan Engineering Council, Higher Education Commission |
Website | http://www.pgc.edu.pk/ |
The Punjab Group of Colleges Pakistan (the Punjab Group) is an association of universities and colleges in Pakistan. PGC established as The Islamic Commerce Educational Society (ICES), registered in 1985 by Mian Amir Mehmood, which established its first facility, the Punjab College of Commerce & Punjab College of Sciences, in Muslim Town on Canal Bank in Lahore, followed a few years later by the Punjab Law College. Since then the Punjab Group has branched out into the cities of Punjab. Following arrangements with foreign accredited universities, Punjab College of Business Administration (PCBA) was established in 1991 and Punjab Institute of Computer Science (PICS), in 1993, at Lahore. The schools train individuals as professional managers and computer scientists.
The group established another network in cities of the Punjab by the name of Punjab College of Information Technology (PCIT), the first having been established in Lahore in 2000 and the latest at Sialkot in 2005. Mohammad Ali Jinnah University in Sindh and the University of Central Punjab are chartered universities of the Group. All these institutions together have more than 40,000 students registered.
The faculty of the Punjab Group's educational institutions include 79 foreign and 9 local PhDs, and 47 foreign and 1200 local master's degree holders.
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