The university consists of 43 departments organized into eight faculties: Arts & Commerce, Science, Pharmacy, Education, Medicine, Law, and Islamic Studies. In addition, there are 17 research centers and 97 affiliated colleges.
The University of Karachi was established by an act of Pakistan parliament in September, 1950.
More than 90 colleges are affiliated to this University, and therefore University of Karachi is an affiliating, examining and teaching body, and hence caters to the teaching requirement of 15 million population of the city.
University also arranges examination, result and degrees of about 150000 students other than studying at the campus.
It is the largest public university in Pakistan and ranked number one in the country according to HEC (Higher Education Commission).
The university was established in June 1951, the fourth oldest university in Pakistan and the first in Karachi.
KarachiUniversity was a pioneer of Business Education in the mid fifties in South Asia, and has established KarachiUniversity Business School on the pattern of well-recognized Business Schools in the Universities of Western World.