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About SNS

The School of Natural Sciences (SNS) started in May 2004. It had already been mentioned in the Mega project for NUST and given its name in it. A preliminary PC-1 had been prepared for it by Drs. M. Rafique and Azad A. Siddiqui of the Basic Sciences Department of the College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering. It had then been left pending for implementation much later. However, when Prof. Asghar Qadir of the Department of Mathematics of the Quaid-i-Azam University, who also works as a physicist, took early retirement from his University in March 2004 and became available to take other employment in May 2004, he was appointed as Director of SNS.

Admission to the MPhil leading to PhD was advertised and the PC-1 for the School was prepared and submitted to the Higher Education Commission right away. The PC-1 consisted of three phases: the first just had an MPhil leading to PhD in Mathematics; the second, to start four years later, an MPhil leading to PhD in Theoretical Physics; the third (three years later) to extend into Experimental Physics and to start a 4-year BS programme, in at least Mathematics. The intention was to have 20 students admitted to each of the graduate programmes and 40 for the BS. It took two years before the PC-1 was approved. In the meantime, SNS had already got 5 PhD students and awarded an MPhil to one more. A second batch of some 7 students had also been admitted. The second phase was started after 4 years and the third phase after another 2 years.

Currently, the School is offering BS and postgraduate programmes including MS and PhD in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. The School has also launched MS programmes in Statistics from Fall 2020.