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The University of the Punjab was formally settled with the gathering of the primary gathering of its Senate on October 14, 1882 at Simla.

The University of the Punjab was formally settled with the gathering of the main gathering of its Senate on October 14, 1882 at Simla. It was the fourth University to be built up by the British frontier experts on the Indian Subcontinent. The initial three colleges were built up by the British rulers at their underlying fortifications of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. The University of the Punjab appeared because of a long drawn battle of the general population of Punjab after the war of freedom in 1857. In opposition to the three already settled colleges, which were just analyzing foundations, the University of the Punjab was both instructing and in addition looking at body appropriate from the earliest starting point.

The commitment of Dr. G. W. Leitner, an edified Hungarian and a naturalized Britisher, was instrumental in the foundation of this University. He turned into its first Registrar. Prof. A. C. Woolner, who remained Vice-Chancellor of this University amid 1928-1936, assumed a key part in its advancement amid the underlying many years of this century. His statue still stands before the Allama Iqbal Campus of the University.

Until freedom in 1947 The University of the Punjab satisfied the instructive needs of an immense district of the Subcontinent. Segment of the Subcontinent fairly decreased the land furthest reaches of the locale of the University. Be that as it may, for a long time after freedom despite everything it went over tremendous regions including Punjab, NWFP, Baluchistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. New colleges were set up later in the nation to impart duty regarding granting advanced education to the University of the Punjab.

The quality of the University Faculty was enormously decreased in view of the movement of non-Muslim educators and researchers at the season of autonomy. The University working was reestablished, essentially because of the endeavors of the prominent educationists like Dr. Umar Hayat Malik, who turned into the main Vice Chancellor after the freedom. Scholastic projects were started not long after the freedom numerous new divisions.