BS Pakistan Studies Scope in Pakistan: Universities

Quick Facts

Degree Level	BS
Discipline	Pakistan Studies, Social Sciences
Offered By	26 universities in our directory
Typical Duration	4 years

BS Pakistan Studies is a four-year undergraduate degree examining Pakistan itself — its history, politics, society, economy, foreign relations and cultural composition — as a coherent field of study rather than as scattered components of other disciplines.

What You’ll Study

Coursework covers the Pakistan movement and the country’s political history, constitutional development, federalism and provincial politics, foreign policy, economic development and planning, society, ethnicity and language, and research methods. Stronger programmes treat contested questions as genuinely contested — the field is most valuable when it examines rather than recites.

Career Scope in Pakistan

Graduates work in education and academia, research institutes and think tanks, government policy and planning departments, journalism and current affairs analysis, development organisations, and the civil service. Pakistan Affairs is a compulsory CSS subject, which makes this degree unusually well aligned with civil service preparation.

Realistically, the degree is narrower in direct employment terms than economics or business, and a large share of graduates enter teaching, CSS preparation or postgraduate study. Its strongest use is as a foundation for policy research and civil service careers, particularly for students who add analytical or language capability.

Admission Requirements

Intermediate or an equivalent qualification, plus the admission or aptitude test used by the university concerned. Social science programmes normally weight English proficiency and analytical writing. Check each university’s admissions page for the current cycle.

Where You Can Study This

26 universities
19 cities
24 public
2 private

Fees are not shown here: we hold a published figure for 10 of these 26 universities, and comparing one against a blank column would be misleading rather than informative. Each university page carries its own fee where we have it.

University	City	Sector	Duration
Bahauddin Zakariya University	Multan	Public	2 years
Bahauddin Zakariya University	Multan	Public	4 years
Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan	Dera Ghazi Khan	Public	4 years
Government College University, Faisalabad	Faisalabad	Public	4 Years
Government College Women University, Faisalabad	Faisalabad	Public	4 years
Government College Women University, Faisalabad	Faisalabad	Public	4 years
Hazara University	Mansehra	Public	—
International Islamic University	Islamabad	Public	4 Years
Islamia College Peshawar	Peshawar	Public	—
Khawaja Freed University of Engineering & Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan	Rahim Yar Khan	Public	—
Kohat University of Science and Technology	Kohat	Public	—
National University of Modern Languages	Islamabad	Public	—
National University of Modern Languages	Islamabad	Public	—
Quaid-i-Azam University	Islamabad	Public	4 years
Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University	Quetta	Public	4 Years
Shah Abdul Latif University Merit	Khairpur	Public	4 Years (BS)
Shah Abdul Latif University	Khairpur	Public	4 Years (BS)
University of Buner	Bunair	Public	4 years
University of Haripur	Haripur	Public	4 Years
University of Lakki Marwat	Lakki Marwat	Public	4 Years
University of Sargodha	Sargodha	Public	—
University of Science & Technology	Bannu	Public	4 years
University of Sindh	Mirpur Khas	Public	4 years
Woman University Swabi	Swabi	Public	4 Years
Imperial College of Business Studies	Lahore	Private	—
Sohail University, Karachi	Karachi	Private	—

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Pakistan Studies useful for CSS?

Yes — Pakistan Affairs is a compulsory CSS subject, and the degree covers the political history, constitutional development, foreign policy and economic context the examination tests, making it unusually well aligned with civil service preparation.

What careers does a Pakistan Studies degree lead to?

Education and academia, research institutes and think tanks, government policy and planning departments, journalism and current affairs analysis, development organisations and the civil service. Many graduates also enter teaching or postgraduate study.