| Edwardes College Peshawar | ||
| Edwardes College was the first university college in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. It was founded in 1900 first as a high school in Peshawar city by Sir Herbert Edwardes, becoming a college affiliated to the University of the Punjab. Following partition, for geographical reasons it became part of the University of Peshawar when it was inaugurated in 1952. Edwardes College is co-educational and was one of the first colleges
in Pakistan to admit women. There are currently 180 women students among
a college student population of just under 2,000, and 5 women lecturers.
It is anticipated that these numbers will increase.
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