A bustling metropolis of more than 20 million people, is the perfect playing field for students Habib wishing to learn more about their country. It is a living, breathing, ever-expanding city of parks and s h a pin g f u t u r e s neighborhoods, festivals and fairs, museums, galleries, theatres, cafes and historic spots. Studying at Habib University, in Karachi, will provide access to a multitude of NGOs, international development organizations, media houses, corporations and financial institutions. Here you have limitless access to internships and professional opportunities. Students can handpick the projects they want to be a part of. The location of the University couldn’t have been better.

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HABIB UNIVERSITY’S ICONIC CAMPUS

The campus is located in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block 18. It is a part of Faisal Cantonment and is surrounded by Civil Aviation Area including Airport. Both the Cantonment and the Civil Aviation areas are highly secured and protected. One can easily reach Habib University from Shahrah-e-Faisal by taking a left turn to University Avenue, after crossing the Natha Khan Bridge.

Habib University: Block 18, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, University Avenue, Off Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi.

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habib.edu.pk facebook.com/HabibUniversity twitter.com/HabibUniversity +92 21 38797082 We at Habib University realize that learning is a social activity that happens in many places beyond traditional classrooms. Lectures are accompanied by class dialogue; memory and recall are balanced with discovery and critical thinking. We have learned about the effect of space on our psychological and physiological well-being. The right people, pedagogy, and physical environment lead to a myriad of possibilities. Habib University’s unique campus design provides an ideal physical environment which internalizes the principles of beauty, respect, passion, service and excellence that will ensure the continuity of common, enduring values. Habib University’s campus creates an environment that instills passion for learning and creativity, encourages reflection and discourse, and promotes respect for diversity and pluralism. The buildings and spaces cultivate a diverse learning fabric that leads to collective knowledge creation and absorption, personal introspection and reflection. The interconnected design encourages working with peers and facilitate interactions between the University community and society at large. The specialized spaces of Habib University campus including laboratories, student center and library have been painstakingly designed after much consultation with Habib University’s partner institutions and various international experts and specialists.

In the Habib University Library students will have those quiet moments that lead to a fascinating idea and the joys of crafting of an essay whose narrative blends elegantly with the expression and the argument rings true. The amphitheater will stage performances that move its audience beyond words and cafeteria will host conversations that lead to a common endeavor, or changes a long-held notion, or creates a lasting friendship. The interactive classrooms and technological labs will provide the right ambience as our young scholars get absorbed in the close reading of a profound text or painstakingly working out the solution of a complex equation.

TO BE AN INSTITUTION OF EXCELLENCE, IT “TAKES THREE IMPORTANT THINGS—WORLD-CLASS WE HAVE BUILT A FACULTY, WORLD-CLASS CAMPUS IN WORLD-CLASS THE HEART OF KARACHI INFRASTRUCTURE AND AND ARE SURE THAT IT WORLD-CLASS WILL HOST GENERATIONS STUDENTS. OF LEADERS AND VISIONARIES IN THE TIME RAFIQ M. HABIB ,CHAIRMAN TO COME. ” HIGH QUALITY LABORATORIES Habib University has 13 state-of-the-art teaching labs as epicenters of scholarship-based research in . The labs are designed in consultation with AUDITORIUM AND LECTURE THEATERS Research Facility Design (RFD), a US-based Technology enabled and equipped with video company that specializes in the programming and conferencing facility, the 300-seat auditorium and two design of lab facilities for international and lecture theaters will enrich students’ learning including Harvard and M.I.T. The labs are experience. They will also be used for international equipped with modern equipment to provide conferences, talks by renowned scholars, seminars, outstanding hands-on learning experience to the student activities, drama club productions, and other students. events.

AMPHITHEATER STUDENT LOUNGE The open-air and multi-purpose amphitheater is the It provides a space to congregate, relax, plan, study, ideal space for diverse forms of creative expression and do all the things that make student life where students work together to create musical and memorable. Featuring couches and bean bags, theatrical productions, conduct or organize debates, discussion tables and a widescreen TV, the Student lectures and workshops, and partake in endless Lounge will give students the chance to engage with other activities. their peers in a friendly and casual environment.

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LOWER COURTYARD The Lower Courts house the Cafeteria, the Project Labs and provide an inner space which gives depth to the campus. As one descends down the steps it CENTRAL STREET becomes apparent that the uniqueness and beauty LIBRARY STUDENT CENTER Habib University’s Central Street cuts of the campus extends to all levels of the spaces The Library will be the center of all intellectual The Student Center is the centralized space for the across the entire campus, neatly dividing it and that the ideals of connectivity, flow and activities. As a semi-public space, it will create an current and prospective students. It houses all the to two sides. It not only encourages movement are seamless wrought into the overall impact, not only on the lives of the Students, but also offices managing student services and facilities discourse and collaborations between theme of the University. the larger community. The library has information including admissions, enrolment, financials & faculty and students from different commons, lounges, discussion rooms, study cubicles, scholarships, student excellence, career & alumni disciplines, but will also serve as a and quiet rooms. The Library seeks to become one of services, student counseling and the health and permanent memory lane for many the finest repositories of knowledge in the region and wellness. The center includes meeting spaces for generations of scholars. to play a critical role in the growth of scholarship and staff and students, a welcome lounge, and a innovative research. student activity room where students in organizations or student council can meet. “You can expect the best of things - halls, UPCOMING SPACES auditoriums, and a fancy library - but nothing beats the supremely comfortable couches up there. It gives you the feeling that ‘You are important.’”

-Moizza Salahuddin, Class of 2018

“I really adore the bridge connecting the upper level of the library, and that door really gives me the feel of Narnia.”

-Jibran Tahir, Class of 2018

SPORTS AND RECREATION Habib University believes that health and physical fitness are an essential component of any learning environment. Therefore, the campus will have fully-equipped gymnasiums for males and females, a swimming pool, in-door games and tennis, volleyball, and basketball courts built as per international standards.

“Everything about the university spaces is absolutely mind blowing. You come here for a week or two, explore the space and I can guarantee you will fall in love.”

-Anis Punjwani, Class of 2018

“The best part of my university is to discover the undiscovered. It is so large that my friends and I go to find

CAFETERIA out new things every day. That’s the fun. I just love it.” The cafeteria at Habib University is more than just a traditional eating place. It will encourage learning and collaboration. While having lunch, students can continue a previous class discussion with fellow students or -Sumair Aasani, Class of 2018 faculty members, work on a group assignment, or plan for their upcoming drama club meeting.