| Former Dean Faculty of Commerce, Law and Business Administration of Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) Multan Prof. Dr. Hayat Muhammad Awan has joined Air University as Director Multan Campus. Dr. Awan has also served as the Acting Vice Chancellor of BZU on various occasions. Dr. Awan has over 35 years of teaching, research and leadership experience. After earning PhD and MS degrees from University of Toronto, Canada, Dr. Awan jointed University of Wisconsin, Madison as Assistant Professor. He re-joined Bahauddin Zakariya University as Assistant Professor in 1982. Over the next thirty years, besides teaching, he served BZU in various administrative posts, including Director Sub-Campus DG Khan; | |
| Chairman, Board of Faculty of Commerce, Law and Business Administration; Director Institute of Management Sciences; Chairman, Board of Studies Business Administration; and Chairman Department of Statistics. Dr Awan is author of numerous research publications and has attended various conferences and workshops around the world. He has also supervised research thesis of over twenty students working towards PhD and MS degrees. | |
| As a federally chartered, public sector university, AIR University can operate all over Pakistan. Southern Punjab consists of four divisions, Multan, Sahiwal, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan. Large numbers of students from this region desiring higher education in Management Sciences and Computer Engineering move to educational institutions in Lahore, Islamabad or Karachi. |
| The city of Multan is well placed to serve not only these four divisions, but also adjoining areas in Sind, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. In view of the heavy pressure of students seeking admission to courses of the kind offered by AIR University, the Prime- Minister directed for the establishment of the Multan Campus of the University. The management conducted a feasibility study and decided to set up two faculties, Applied and Basic Sciences and Administrative Sciences in Phase I, to be followed by Engineering in Phase II. The University started the Multan Campus in the heart of the city in a rented building named Khan Centre at Abdali Road, Multan Cantt. In the fullness of time the campus will be constructed over an area of 200 acres in the suburbs of Multan. |
| The University announced admission for two programs, BSCS and BBA (Honors) in the month of January 2011 and classes for these programs started on April 19, 2011. From Fall 2011 semester a third degree program, MBA (3 ½ years), is also being offered. |
| The campus is closely linked with the parent departments of the main campus and have worked a regular mechanism of knowledge sharing with them. The Multan campus is linked through PERN with the main campus. The facility of teleconferencing is provided. Therefore the class lectures of Islamabad campus and scholars of international repute are supplemented. |
| The efforts are underway to hire highly qualified and professionally experienced teachers in the fields of finance, marketing, management and computer science. A computer lab has been established at the campus with internet facility. This computer lab is connected with HEC digital library. The students of these programs have almost unlimited access to the computer and professional software tools and other facilities of the main campus. The library of the campus is going to be established with the latest books in all areas of management sciences and computer science. |
| Detailed information about the programs of BSCS, BBA (Honors) and MBA (3 ½ years) along with eligibility criteria, scheduled courses, admission schedule etc. is provided hereafter in the website. |
