770 appears in KU Visual Studies dept entry test

Karachi, As many as 770 students on Sunday appeared in an entry test to get admissions to the visual studies department of Karachi University.

A total of 100 seats are available in the department. The director of the admission committee of the KU said 854 admissions forms were issued to candidates and 770 of them, including boys and girls, appeared in the test.

The test was organized in the arts faculty lobby and Dr Khalid Iraqi, Duria Qazi, Syed Shamoon Haider and Tania Nasir monitored the test.

Dr Iraqi said that in agreement with special orders of KU vice chancellor Dr Moham mad Qaiser, strict security arrangements had been made.

No illegal person was allowed to be present around the entry test site, he said. The Rangers and the campus security staff were deployed at all entry points of the university as well as all in faculties.

All candidates who would be declared successful in the written test would be required to appear in an interview.
The list including names of successful candidates would be put on display on the visual studies department notice board on Nov 17. This list can also be seen at the KU website, said the official.

The university advised candidates aiming to improve their division in BA, BCom and BSc exams to deposit registration forms with a fee of Rs2,500 by Nov 5.

The University of Karachi was established by an act of Pakistan parliament in June, 1951. The present campus, to which the University shifted in 1959, is spread over 1279 acres of land, situated 12 Km away from the city center.

Today University is recognized as a leading center of learning and research in the Subcontinent and in the Third World. A number of scientists and scholars affiliated with the University are working in important positions both within and outside Pakistan and have won gratitude and acclaim.

One of the institutes of the University has got the distinction of being made the Centre of the Third World Academy of Sciences. Students from several foreign countries are also pursuing for the Masters and Doctorate degrees. Because of high academic and research standards of the University a large number of students from Karachi and other parts of the country apply for admission here.