Information Technology University (Lahore)
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| Motto | العلم سلامي |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 2012 |
| Endowment | $5 million |
| Vice-Chancellor | Umar Saif |
| Students | 700 |
| Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | HEC, PEC |
Information Technology University (ITU) is a public university in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Founded in 2012, the university is founded and headed by Umar Saif and is modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The university is located within the high-rise Arfa Software Technology Park, while its permanent 183 acre campus is under-construction on Barki Road in eastern Lahore. The university has varying degrees of partnerships with the Harvard University and also publishes the MIT Technology Review's Pakistan edition. The university is home to several tenured academics, Pakistan's largest startup incubator and maintains partnerships with EdX, IBM and the US State Department.
The university is led by Umar Saif (PhD, Cambridge) who has previously taught at the Cambridge–MIT Institute. Akmal Hussain (PhD, Sussex) is the head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and previously taught at the University of California, Riverside. Bashir Ahmad Khan (DPhil, Oxford) heads the School of Business and Management Sciences taught at LUMS. Combined the university is home to 29 faculty members with PhDs.
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