Edwardes College

Established in September 2007, the Women's Centre at Edwardes College provides a setting of privacy and mutual interaction for  female students and faculty.  Edwardes is committed to co-education, so the centre is not intended to segregate women from men, but rather to offer women a relaxing place of their own within the co-educational environment of the College.  

The Centre consists of a semi-detached house next to the Bungalow and is set in a spacious walled garden with access on two sides. There is a full-time ayah, who manages a stall selling tea and snacks.  Several rooms accommodate visiting space for women students and women faculty members.  Badminton is often played on the lawn.  

Women's Officer Mrs. Nasira Manzoor, Asst. Prof. of Physics, occupies an office in the Centre and is available for counseling most days of the week. As a deputy senior proctor she supervises the women student proctors.  She recently served on the Faculty Selection Committee. 

There are currently 305 women students enrolled in Edwardes College, 2.3 times the number enrolled in 2007.  Since five women were added to the faculty in September 2011, women faculty currently number 17 in a wide variety of fields, from English to Business, from Urdu to Chemistry. 

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The College is situated in one of the most beautiful parts of Peshawar Cantonment, a few minutes walk from the railway station. We draw students from all parts of the city and from all over the Frontier and beyond.

Postal Address

Edwardes College
The Mall, Peshawar 25000,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Telephone Numbers

Office: +92 (91) 5275154, +92 (91) 5275211
Fax: +92 (91) 5276765

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Edwardes College is the oldest university college in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It was the first college to admit women, and currently contains just under 2000 students predominantly studying science subjects from A level to MSc. It was the first college in the province to introduce the Bachelor of Computer Science degree, and has just started an MBA. The college is affiliated to the University of Peshawar, and is administered by a governing body chaired by provincial Governor, with the Bishop of Peshawar as vice-chair (reflecting the Christian character of the college, which contains both a mosque and a chapel).

Edwardes College was able to avoid nationalization in the early seventies as a result of ZA Bhutto’s policies, but that has meant total dependence on student fees as a source of income with no government funding and no support from outside Pakistan. A distinctive feature of the college has always been its high intake from hill and border areas, but such students have limited finances, and we do not but want to fill the college with “rich kids” from Peshawar city.

College alumni can afford to give more, and we are setting up a database in order to contact them. We have established an endowment fund which has been “kick started” by H E the Governor and the Chief Secretary of the NWFP. But we need much more, and the best way to support us is by contributing to our endowment fund. Donors may designate their contribution towards specific needs, or towards the general welfare of the college, as follows:

Details of anticipated costs will be supplied on request by the Director Finance.

Our only regular source of college funding continues to be student fees, and these are already too high for many students.

All contributions will be acknowledged.

Principal, Edwardes College
Mall Road, Cantonment
Peshawar

www.edwardes.edu.pk