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Government Post Graduate College, Swabi is a postgraduate college in the Swabi District of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...
in
Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
. The college currently offers programs for inter level in Arts and Science groups plus it also offers courses in 4 years BS degrees and 2 years master's degree courses in Political Science & Economics.


History

It was established in 1962 as inter college in Gohati village of Swabi District. Initially the college campus was established in Government Primary School Swabi premises. In 1963, the college was moved to its current location for which the land of 110 canals was denoted by people of Maneri village. Initially, Pre-medical and Pre-Engineering classes were offered. The college was upgraded to degree level in 1964 and degree courses were offered in Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics and Physics. In 2003, the college was upgraded to post-graduate level due to people's demand with master's degree courses in two subjects Political Science and Economics. In 2012, the college introduced 4 years BS programs in Physics. Later, Chemistry, Botany, Economics and Political Science. The master's degree courses are shelved due to introduction of BS programs.


Faculties and departments

The college currently have the following faculties and departments.


Social Sciences/Humanities

* Department of
Archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...
* Department of
Pakistan Studies Pakistan studies curriculum (Urdu: ') is the name of a curriculum of academic research and study that encompasses the culture, demographics, geography, history, International Relations and politics of Pakistan. The subject is widely research ...
* Department of English * Department of
Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
* Department of
Geography Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...
* Department of Health &
Physical Education Physical education is an academic subject taught in schools worldwide, encompassing Primary education, primary, Secondary education, secondary, and sometimes tertiary education. It is often referred to as Phys. Ed. or PE, and in the United Stat ...
* Department of
History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
* Department of Islamiyat * Department of
Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
* Department of
Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...
* Department of
Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
* Department of
Library sciences Library and information science (LIS)Library and Information Sciences is the name used in the Dewey Decimal Classification for class 20 from the 18th edition (1971) to the 22nd edition (2003). are two interconnected disciplines that deal with info ...
* Department of
Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...


Physical Sciences

* Department of
Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
* Department of
Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
* Department of
Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
* Department of
Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
* Department of
Statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...
* Department of
Electronics Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other Electric charge, electrically charged particles. It is a subfield ...


Biological Sciences

* Department of
Botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
* Department of
Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...


Programs

The college currently offers the following programs.


BS Degrees (4 years)

* BS Physics * BS Chemistry * BS Botany * BS Economics * BS Political Science * BS English * BS Urdu * BS Mathematics * BS Islamiyat * BS Computer Science * BS Pashto * BS Zoology


Intermediate

* FSc – Pre-Medical (2 years) * FSc – Pre-Engineering (2 years) * FSc – Computer Science (2 years) * FA – General Science (2 years) * FA – Humanities (2 years)


Notable alumni

*
Taskeen Manerwal Mohammad Taskeen Manerwal (; 15 September 1949 – 10 January 2022) was a Pakistani intellectual, writer, and author of Pashto literature and poetry. He was also a teacher and retired from the Department of Education in 1999 as a headmaster. He ...
*
Asad Qaiser Asad Qaiser (; born 15 November 1969) is a Pakistani politician from Swabi. He is the former Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, served from August 2018 to April 2022. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since Fe ...
* Mushtaq Ahmad Khan * Motasim Billah Shah * Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaeed (NH) * Dr. Sabz Ali Khan (PAEC)


See also

*
University of Swabi University Of Swabi (; ; abbreviated UoS), is a public sector university situated in Anbar, Swabi in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Overview & History University of Swabi is established by KP government in Anbar, Swabi in 2012. Back in 2012, ...
* Women University Swabi


References

Universities and colleges in Swabi District Swabi District Public universities and colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1962 establishments in Pakistan Universities and colleges established in 1962 {{Pakistan-university-stub