University of Central Punjab

The University of Central Punjab (Urdu: یونیورسٹی آف سنٹرل پنجاب) or UCP is a private university located on Khayaban-e-Jinnah Road, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Recognized university
The University of Central Punjab is a part of the Punjab Group of Colleges. It was chartered by the Government of the Punjab in 2002 and recognized by the Higher Education Commission (Pakistan).

According to the HEC ranking 2022, its business school is in seventh ranking in Lahore.

History
On 15 August 1996, The Punjab Group of Colleges petitioned the Government of Punjab for the establishment of a university in the province. Punjab Institute of Computer Science (PICS), Punjab College of Commerce (PCC) and Punjab College of Information Technology (PCIT) formed the core of the university at the time of establishment.

Following a restructuring in 2004, the PCBA and PICS operate under the Faculty of Management Studies and Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Central Punjab respectively. The Punjab Colleges of Commerce and the Punjab Law College respectively function under the Faculties of Commerce and of Law of the University of Central Punjab. The Faculty of Engineering (FOE) was introduced in 2002.

Campus


The university is located opposite Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre on Khayaban-e-Jinnah Road Lahore. It covers an area of 500,000 square feet. The campus was built in 2010 and consists of five blocks. There is an auditorium block consisting of 300 seats. It houses a number of facilities, both curricular and co-curricular in nature.

Library
The library of the university has an academic collection of more than 40,000 books from various disciplines being taught at the university. The collection in the library is arranged according to a specific classification scheme known as Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) scheme.

Academics
The university consists of the following faculties:
 * Faculty of Engineering
 * Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
 * Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
 * Faculty of Law
 * School of Media and Communication Studies
 * Faculty of Life Sciences
 * Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science
 * Faculty of Language & Literature
 * Faculty of Science & Technology
 * Faculty of Management Sciences