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The university offers a variety of services to students and facilitates their co-curricular activities. The admission office functions as a friendly guide to students, administering to their needs from the time they make the first inquiry regarding admission to the University until they graduate.
At Mohammad Ali Jinnah University we not only provide academic challenges to the youth, we also offer excellent facilities with the sole purpose of enriching the minds and lives of students. The University helps to promote the intellectual, cultural, personal and social development of its students while enhancing their physical well being.
The Admission office is manned with an efficient and courteous staff that helps to facilitate students from the day they seek admission. Information and guidelines are dispensed to students, and the Student Affairs Office arranges student identification tags and bus passes, explains rules and regulations, and provides counseling. |
An important function of the office is to promote extra-curricular activities amongst the students, provide them with healthy outlets in sports and games, furnish them with forums so that they may cultivate their literary and artistic potential and make their stay on campus a rich experience of multi-dimensional growth.
Co-Curricular Activities
The University is fully aware of the need for Co-curricular activities along with academic events, which are important to the development of a well-balanced personality. The establishment of societies and clubs allows students to explore their talents and create awareness in them about the professional world. Mohammad Ali Jinnah University assists students in planning activities that promote and enhance communication and leadership skills amongst the students. Students who are academically outstanding and willing to share their knowledge for the cause of community development represent these societies.
The primary objective of these societies and clubs is to provide a platform for students to enhance their intellectual and professional capabilities by arranging seminars, both at the University and at locations outside the University, conferences, competitions, conduct workshops and other activities to expose students to the managerial world. The activities of the societies and clubs help to encourage the professional and personal development of students, and provide opportunities for entertainment and sports activities both for recreation and the development of a competitive but balanced personality.
Seminars and Workshops
Regular seminars are held at the campus to provide students with a professional know-how of what is transpiring around the world. Experts from the corporate and public sector are frequently invited to share their knowledge and experiences with the students, which in turn helps them to identify their career options.
Workshop-related activities on social and sensitive issues, in collaboration with different organizations are also carried out to motivate students' interest in fulfilling their moral obligations towards society.
Student Advisors
Selecting a proper credit hour load of subjects is one of the toughest and most important decision that a student has to make. The University facilitates this process through 'Student Advisors' highly dedicated professors who are keen and willing to provide guidance in areas such as examination anxiety, subject selection, assertiveness and advice on special needs.
Career Counseling
Career counseling plays important role in every student's academic direction. The University, realizing this responsibility, has appointed specialized staff to provide career guidance in three main areas, namely personality development, career identification and selection of the field of specialization within that career. The counselors help students, especially new entrants, to develop confidence and strength to overcome personal problems. They also provide them with necessary help and information to make a conscious judgment in matters relating to career identification that finally assists them in selecting a field of specialization most suited to their particular academic needs.
Community Service
Students are assigned tasks in the form of projects such as conducting fire-fighting training, tree plantation campaigns, office automation, community sales, imparting basic computer skills and public relations training to hospitals, railways, police and other similar institutions. In addition, specially tailored programs for non-computer professionals like doctors, health workers, engineers and educators are also held. Advice is also given to schools and hospitals on infrastructure layouts.
Training sessions and workshops are organized in collaboration with different organizations in order to create general awareness about changing technology in the world. A number of workshops and seminars are held to provide training facilities for the staff on basic issues related to HRD, Finance, Marketing, IT, and Management.
Placement Center
Mohammad Ali Jinnah University graduates have the repute of being in great demand with both local and national employers; the Placement Center organizes information sessions and seminars regularly for multinational and local agencies to develop their human resource base. Internship opportunities are identified for students through this center, and it also provides information on graduate studies. The Placement Center places tremendous emphasis on industry linkages and liaises with employment agencies in order to find work placement for near-to-graduating students.
Alumni Association
The University lays great importance to maintain a link with its graduates so as to keep them informed of new academic opportunities being offered by the University from time to time. Interaction through the Alumni Association also helps the University to solicit information on preferred skills and programs sought by the industry. This enables the University to regularly update its curriculum, based on feedback.
Disabled Students
Mohammad Ali Jinnah University warmly welcomes the to disabled students and those with other special needs. Students in wheelchairs would find many helping hands of fellow students along with wide doors and open corridors for their convenience. The students of any specific need or concern, can discuss their requirement with the Student Affairs Incharge.
Foreign Students
We welcome foreign students at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, as per rules and regulations of the Government of Pakistan; foreign students are required to ensure that their documents are verified by the concerned authorities and that their embassy has granted them the necessary permission to study in Pakistan.
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