As stipulated in the University of Peshawar Act, 1950, the University shall include faculties of Arts, Science, Law, Engineering and Technology, Theology, Education, Agriculture and such other faculties as may be prescribed by the statutes. With the elevation of Faculty of Engineering and Agriculture to full-fledged Universities in the early Eighties, the University had five faculties for quite a long time till 2003. In the year 2003, the faculties were re-organized and re-constituted. At present the University of Peshawar is having six faculties.

The six faculties are categorized on the basis of teaching departments / colleges which have been prescribed by ordinances. The Faculty of Arts & Humanities, the Faculty of Islamic & Oriental Studies, the Faculty Life & Environmental Sciences, the Faculty of Management and Information Sciences, the Faculty of Numerical and Physical Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences respectively comprise 6,7,9,5,5 and 9 teaching departments and colleges. The faculties’ setup is as under:

There are six Faculties in the University having Different Departments, Academy, Colleges, Institute.

 There shall be a Dean of each faculty who shall be the chairman and convener of the Board of Faculty. The Dean of each faculty is appointed by the Chancellor from amongst the three senior most professors in the Faculty. The Dean shall normally hold office for three years. The functions of Deans shall be as follow:

• Providing academic and administrative leadership to the Faculty for setting and advancing the strategic academic direction of the Faculty.
• Shall have the vision for the Faculty in line with the University vision. Shall have the mission translate the vision of University into reality.
• Shall put up determined efforts in securing developmental funds for infrastructural development, research and teaching facilities for improvement in the Faculty. Substantial funding for higher education from HEC are available moulding humane sublime and must be secured on a priority basis at all level of the University. The Dean would be expected to play his crucial role in such an important activity involving the following:
• Setting up permanent developmental committee including all the chairpersons/directors. Such committee shall regularly meet to consider all the submissions from the departments.
• In achieving the objective he/she shall be appreciative of departments/directorates.
• Developmental projects should be one of the major activity of the faculty and the Dean would be expected to take it as a major challenge
• Shall be chairing faculty board meetings.
• All Faculty board meetings should be prescheduled and be in the University’s Almanac (Annual Calendar)
• All such meetings shall have uniform format of agenda and recording of the minutes
• Deliberation of such meetings shall be permanent record and shall be retrievable in the future
• Shall be responsible for the effective and smooth running of the affairs of the Faculty.
• Shall be answerable to the Vice-Chancellor
• All communication from the departments etc. must be routed through the Dean.

*On Contract

 Teaching Faculty with Ph.D. :

Foreign Faculty Hired by Higher Education Commission (HEC)

Enrollment in different Programmes

Scholarships Awarded to Faculty for Higher Studies

  HEC funded Scholarship to Students

* 22 are in the Project “Academic Provision” and 27 are in the Project Strengthening and Enhancement of Academic Provision in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences”

Publication

1. Faculty of Arts & Humanities:-

• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• English and applied linguistics
• Fine arts
• History
• Philosophy

2. Faculty of Islamic & Oriental Studies:-

• Arabic
• Islamic Studies
• Pashto
• Pashto Academy
• Persian
• Seerat studies
• Urdu

3. Faculty of Life & Environmental Sciences:-

• Center of Biotechnology
• Botany
• Institute of Chemical Sciences
• Environmental science
• Geography
• Urban & regional planning
• Geology
• Pharmacy
• Zoology

4. Faculty of Management & Information Sciences:-

• Journalism & Mass Communication
• Library & information science
• Institute Management Studies
• Quaid-e-Azam Commerce College
• College of Home Economics

5. Faculty of Numerical & Physical Sciences :-

• Computer science
• Eelectronics
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Statistics

6. Faculty of Social Sciences :-

• Economics
• Gender Studies
• Institute of Education and Research
• International relations
• Law College
• Political science
• Psychology
• Social work
• Sociology