Pakistan Navy with its inherent flair for disciplined training and over 30 years of experience in the field of education had a vision to help build an educated and prosperous PAKISTAN in the 21st century. The vision was to consolidate all its efforts to create an education system that would be capable of providing state of the art facilities for quality education to the population of Pakistan with out any prejudice of class, creed, color or domicile.
This vision became a reality on 7 Feb 2000, when BAHRIA UNIVERSITY was established through the Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000.
BAHRIA UNIVERSITY today is a multi-campus university with its headquarters at Islamabad. The constituent units of the university are spread at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. These include the Pakistan Naval Academy Karachi, PN War College Lahore, Bahria Institutes of Management and Computer Sciences at Karachi and Islamabad, the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Islamabad, the Institute of Professional Psychology at PNS SHIFA Karachi and Bahria Colleges at Karachi and Islamabad.
The University is planned to run on self-financing basis without depending heavily on the Government funds. Through its' own resources, and with the generous support of the Navy, two new campuses for management and computer sciences have been constructed at Islamabad and Karachi. These beautiful buildings are custom built with state of the art facilities, high tech computer/electronic laboratories and well stocked libraries with free internet access. The faculties of Earth & Environment Sciences and Economics are also established within the premises of these two institutes at Islamabad and Karachi respectively. The institute of Professional Psychology is located in a renovated premises at PNS Shifa Karachi, well suited to the needs of modern teaching facilities in Psychology. A disciplined and peaceful academic environment is maintained at these campuses to facilitate learning and timely completion of degree programs.
Bahria University was established in February 2000 with Faculties/Departments of Management Sciences, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Professional Psychology and War Studies as the initial areas of study and research. Since then the University has tried to achieve high standards in both research and teaching at undergraduate level attracting some of the best students and faculty in the country. Organization Structure The Department is headed by the Head of the Department (HOD) who reports to the Director of Institute in all administrative and academic matters. There are a number of coordinators who report to the HOD for all operational matters. The hierarchy is defined as: Faculty members associated with the Department are encouraged to involve in administrative and co-curricular activities, apart from teaching and research. They work as class advisors, student counselors, internship coordinators and various other work roles. Programs offered by the Department Initially the Department offered Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) and Master of Computer Science (MCS) degrees. In 2000 the existing undergraduate program was converted into Engineering Programs (Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Bachelor of Software Engineering). Similarly two more Engineering Programs (Bachelor of Electronic Engineering and Bachelor of Telecom Engineering) were added in 2005.
The MCS program was shelved in 2004, and in lieu three MS programs have been introduced. These MS Programs are: Master in Software Engineering, Master in Computer Engineering, and Master in Telecom and Networks. In total the following programs are currently running: 1 Bachelor of Software Engineering 4 years 2 Bachelor of Computer Engineering 4 years 3 B.E. (Electrical) with specialization in Electronics 4 years 4 B.E. (Electrical) with specialization in Telecommunication 4 years 5 MS (Software Engineering) 2 years 6 MS (Telecom and Networking) 2 years