Indus Institute of Higher Education

Indus Institute of Higher Education (IIHE) is a Institute in Pakistan. It is chartered by the government of Sindh and ranked with the top most category “W” by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). It is situated in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, adjacent to National Stadium, Karachi.

Indus Institute of Higher Education has air–conditioned class rooms, state of art computer labs, libraries, a research center, seminar rooms and auditorium besides high class cafeterias and recreational facilities of indoor games and much more facilities…..

IIHE - Indus Institute of Higher Education

Library

The library serves as the universities and the region’s reference library of engineering and technology. The collection includes general circulation books, reference books, encyclopedias, handbooks, periodicals, research journals, government and archive documents, microfilms, microfiche, audio/video cassettes, CD-ROM databases and software. The library has computerized retrieval of bibliographic databases containing references to thousands of articles, books, proceedings, technical reports and statistics. The library is fully computerized, providing online search facility and book management. The library provides students with access to online research paper collections such as the IEEEXPLORE, ACM, and Springer.

Laboratories

All departments have their own set of laboratories primarily employed in teaching undergraduate students. Every department has approximately five to six labs, with equipment and facilities for their field. Apart from their own labs, students benefit from multi-disciplinary courses for which lab training is conducted in laboratories of other departments

Internet Service

The Internet Center is equipped with 4 Dell Servers one each for DNS, Proxy, Web and Mail; it has Cisco Routers and Access Servers, with Cisco Firewall and US Robotics Modems. Computers are connected to each other through high-speed data communications network forming the Internet backbone. The backbone for the internet is taken from Global One, which has a parallel backbone to the NSF resulting in very fast responses. The network has been designed so that educational institutions and corporate institutions can also be connected using high speed lines.

The Indus Institute of Higher Educationhas a video lecture series where lectures from international professors are attended by a large number of students.

Other facilities

Facilities include an air-conditioned auditorium of 600 seating capacity, one hostel for 200 students, Medical Center, mosque, student cafeterias, gymnasium and outdoor sports facilities including grounds for cricket and football.

Research

Although the main focus of the university had been on its teaching programs, the institute has started M.Eng. by Research and PhD programs. The institute publishes a research journal – IIHE Journal of Research

Scholarships

The institute offers Need cum Merit scholarships, and distinguished student scholarships for students securing top three positions in class.

Like other professional institutes, IIHE administers an entrance test of 100 multiple choice questions in four sections. The passing cutoff is 40%, however the marks obtained in the test have no effect on the field of engineering the student is admitted to study. The candidates who pass the exam are given their preferred choice on the basis of their standing in Intermediate (high school) examinations.

prepared by.. sabir hussain…