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University of the Punjab
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Also called:
Punjab University
Urdu:
Jamia Punjab
Date:
1882 - present
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University of the Punjab

university, Lahore, Pakistan
Also known as: Jamia Punjab, Punjab University
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History

University of the Punjab, residential and affiliating university located in Lahore, Pakistan. Punjab was founded in 1882 to take on some of the colleges then affiliated with the University of Calcutta (Kolkata), whose jurisdiction included most of northern India and parts of Burma (Myanmar). After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the university in Lahore relinquished its colleges on Indian territory, which then became affiliated with the newly established Punjab University in Chandigarh, India. The original university in Lahore comprises a number of colleges and postgraduate faculties of arts, science and engineering, Islamic and Oriental learning, law, commerce, medicine and dentistry, and education. Instruction is in English.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Zeidan.