AKU Launches LEADS Programme. The LEADS programme offers accessible learning, skill development to marginalised regions

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Our merit-based, transparent admissions process and needs-sensitive financial assistance programme attempt to ensure that a diversity of high calibre students are able to attend the programmes at AKU.

Founded in 1983 as Pakistan’s first private university, AKU is a not-for-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. Starting in 2000, the University expa nded to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Afghanistan, and the United Kingdom. AKU began life as a health-sciences university.

AKU offers undergraduate programmes in medicine, nursing, and midwifery in Pakistan and East Africa.

As a private, non-denominational university, AKU is committed to quality education and promoting human welfare through teaching, research and community service initiatives.

AKU heavily subsidises its academic programmes and provides scholarships to 9 out of 10 of its students in East Africa. Our 13-storey University Centre in Nairobi is home to state-of-the-art research and learning facilities.

At AKU, our programmes help students become thoughtful and resilient leaders. Anchored in academic rigour, we emphasise participatory learning, diversity and small class sizes to foster coll aboration and innovation inside and outside the classroom.

Facts and figures about AKU, including its current students, alumni, faculty, campuses and teaching sites, and its extensive library network across five countries.

Here at the Aga Khan University (AKU), we work towards improving the quality of life through world-class teaching, research, and health-care delivery. We are amongst the largest private health-care providers in Pakistan and East Africa.