Aga Khan University

Aga Khan University
	Seal of AKU
Other name	AKU
Type	Private research university
Established	1983
Chancellor	His Highness the Aga Khan
President	Sulaiman Shahabuddin
Provost	Carl Amrhein
Students	3,196 [alumni: 17,219; employees: 15,275]
Campus	Karachi, Pakistan; Nairobi, Kenya; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Kampala, Uganda; London, United Kingdom;
Language	Mostly English
Colours
Affiliations	HEC; PMC; CAP; JCI;
Mascot	The AKU Leopard
Website	www.aku.edu

Aga Khan University is a not-for-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. It was founded in 1983 as Pakistan's first private university. Starting in 2000, the university expanded to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Afghanistan.

AKU began life as a health-sciences university. It is among the largest private health-care providers in Pakistan and East Africa. AKU hospitals were the first in those regions accredited by U.S.-based Joint Commission International.

More recently, the university has initiated programmes in teacher education, the study of Muslim civilisations, journalism, early childhood development and public policy. In the near future, the university plans to launch an undergraduate liberal-arts programme to educate future leaders in a wide range of fields and establish additional graduate professional schools.^[3]

^ "AKU at a glance". www.aku.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
^ "The AKU Mascot". About AKU. The Aga Khan University. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
^ "About the University". www.aku.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2021.

[1] "AKU at a glance". www.aku.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2021.

[2] "The AKU Mascot". About AKU. The Aga Khan University. Retrieved 12 May 2021.

[3] "About the University". www.aku.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2021.

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