The Islamic University of Science & Technology is a public university located in Awantipora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. The university has been set up as a centre for higher learning for the people of the Jammu and Kashmir State and its neighbouring regions. The Islamic University of Science and Technology has been established through an Act No. XVIII of 2005 dated: 7th November 2005 passed by J&K State Legislature and notified by the State Government, through Jammu & Kashmir Government Gazette dated: 11-11-2005. While the university started functioning in November, 2005 the teaching programme was started in July 2006. The Chancellor of the University is the Chief Minister of J&K State and the executive authority of the University is its Executive Council with the Vice Chancellors of University of Jammu, University of Kashmir and Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University as members .
Vision
The University strives to build a campus and nurture an environment of learning where students can develop, cultivate and support an academic culture that values interdisciplinary learning which is socially responsible to all sections of society – local, regional and global.
Mission
Conduct and promote studies and research and prepare trained manpower aware of their social and cultural obligations and contemporary issues who would effectively participate in all developmental processes of the nation.
The University aims to build the broad personality of its students, in-fusing in them a sense of belonging and responsibility as constructive members of the society, guided by the norms of universal brotherhood, scientific temper and prepare them to take up the mantle of leadership in all professions of modern world.
Develop adequate linkages and appropriate methodologies to promote contemporary knowledge and to put in place a system that thrives on the concept of competitiveness. The moving spirit in the exercise is to create opportunities for the youth of the state by laying foundation of a knowledge society.
Under Graduate Programmes
- Bachelor of Business Administration
- B.Sc. Actuarial & Financial Mathematics
- B.Tech. Civil Engineering
- B.Tech. Electrical Engineering
- B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering
- B.Tech. Electronics & Communication Engineering
- B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering
- B.Tech Food Technology
In addition the university provides lateral entry admission in the following programmes
- B.Tech. (Lateral Entry) Civil Engineering
- B.Tech. (Lateral Entry) Electrical Engineering
- B.Tech. (Lateral Entry) Electronics and Communication Engineering
- B.Tech. (Lateral Entry) Computer Science Engineering
- B.Tech. (Lateral Entry) Food Technology
Post Graduate Programmes
- Master of Business Administration
- Master of Business Administration (International Business)
- Master of Computer Applications
- M.Sc. Information Technology
- M.Sc. Food Technology
- M.Sc. Chemistry
- M.Sc. Physics
- M.Sc. Statistics
- M.A. Arabic Language & Literature
- M.A. English Language & Literature
- M.A. International Relations (Peace & Conflict Studies)
- M.A. Islamic Studies
- M.A. Journalism & Mass Communication