BS Pashto
What BS Pashto covers, career paths in Pakistan, and which universities offer it.
Quick Facts
| Degree Level | BS |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Arts |
| Offered By | 6 universities in our directory |
| Typical Duration | 4 years |
BS Pashto is a four-year undergraduate degree in Pashto language and literature — its poetic and prose traditions, linguistics, folklore and criticism.
What You’ll Study
Coursework covers classical and modern Pashto literature, Pashto linguistics and grammar, folklore and oral tradition, literary criticism, history of Pashto literature, and translation and composition.
Career Scope in Pakistan
Teaching is the primary destination, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where Pashto is taught in schools and at college and university level. Other paths include broadcasting and media in Pashto — a substantial regional market — publishing, translation, cultural and heritage organisations, and research.
Two areas are worth noting. Pashto-language media and content production has real regional demand, including for radio, television and increasingly digital platforms. And Pashto language technology — machine translation, speech recognition and text processing — remains substantially under-resourced compared with major world languages, which makes it an open research and development area for graduates who add computational skills.
Admission Requirements
Intermediate or an equivalent qualification, plus the admission test used by the university concerned. Check each university’s admissions page for the current cycle.
Where You Can Study This
- 6 universities
- 5 cities
- 6 public
Fees are not shown here: we hold a published figure for 1 of these 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Islamia College Peshawar | Peshawar | Public | — |
| Kohat University of Science and Technology | Kohat | Public | — |
| National University of Modern Languages | Islamabad | Public | — |
| University of Loralai Literature | Loralai | Public | 4 years |
| University of Peshawar | Peshawar | Public | 4 years |
| University of Swat | Swat | Public | 4 years |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the scope of a Pashto degree?
Teaching, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, plus Pashto-language broadcasting and media, publishing, translation, cultural organisations and research. Pashto language technology is an under-resourced area open to graduates with computational skills.