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The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) is a university in the city of Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. The first major institution of higher agricultural education was the Punjab Agricultural College and Research Institute which was founded in 1906 in the undivided Punjab. At independence in 1947 Pakistan was a predominantly agricultural country and in spite subsequent industrialization and development, agriculture remains central to its economy. After independence the Government of Pakistan appointed National Commissions on Food and Education with the terms of reference to review, in all its ramifications, the prevailing agrarian system and to formulate measures for developing the full potential of our agricultural resources. The Commissions made a strong plea for establishing an Agricultural university which could play a more vigorous role in promoting research and education in Agriculture was established by upgrading the former Punjab Agricultural College and Research Institute in the year 1961-62. The University's faculty comprises more than 500 teachers of whom 224 hold Ph.D. degrees mainly from foreign universities. The University is organised into faculties of Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Sciences, and a Division of Education and Extension all located at the main campus in Faisalabad, and College of Veterinary Sciences at Lahore. These academic units offer a variety of study programmes leading to B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, D.V.M., B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in various disciplines of agriculture and allied fields.
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The Computer Science education in the University was started in 1975 in the form of short courses with an objective to develop computer know-how. Over the years the computational facilities were strengthened and updated to enable the University to initiate the M.Sc. Degree programs in computer Science during the year 1992 in the department of Mathematics and Statistics as part of its continuing computer education agenda. In the year 1996 an independent department of Computer Science was established to perform all the functions related to Computer Science and especially to promote and develop computer education in the country. Currently the department is offering the degree of M.Sc. Computer Science and M.S. Computer Science. The curriculum of the computer Science degree programs covers all aspects of computing, particularly Artificial intelligence, Software Engineering, Data Bases, Numerical Analysis, Computer Architecture, Multimedia, Graphics and other rapidly evolving areas in computer science. The main emphasis is on project/research ranging from practical problems of application development to deal with the abstract and philosophical issues of computer science and advanced computing. Students are encouraged to take courses and complete a project in an area of computer science, which interacts with Information Management, or other fields covered by the department. The department has excellent computing facilities available for training, data analysis, programs development and research. These compare favorably with any university in Pakistan. The laboratories are rich in both software and hardware installations. We hope to strengthen our postgraduate programs, giving more emphasis on student's projects and making them more meaningful for the software industry.
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