The Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983, is a private, autonomous university that promotes human welfare through research, teaching and community service initiatives. Based on the principles of quality, access, impact and relevance, the University has campuses and programmes in South Asia, the Middle East, Europe and East Africa.

Its facilities include teaching hospitals, Faculties of Health Sciences with Schools of Nursing and Midwifery and Medical Colleges, Institutes for Educational Development, an Examination Board and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

A Graduate School of Media and Communications, an East African Institute and an Institute for Human Development are under development; and Faculties of Arts and Sciences are to be set up in Pakistan and East Africa.

Through its needs-blind admissions policy, the University imbues the most promising leaders and thinkers of tomorrow with an ethic of service and the skills to help communities solve their most
pressing challenges

The University is part of the Aga Khan Development Network, a group of private development agencies with mandates ranging from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, promotion of private-sector enterprise and revitalisation of historic cities.