{"id":89573,"date":"2025-10-28T15:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=89573"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:51:27","slug":"university-of-peshawar-shuts-nine-departments-over-low-enrolment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/university-of-peshawar-shuts-nine-departments-over-low-enrolment\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Peshawar shuts nine departments over low enrolment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: The University of Peshawar (UoP) has decided to shut nine <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/kp-govt-renames-university-of-peshawars-journalism-department-after-arshad-sharif\/\">Bachelor of Studies (BS) programmes<\/a> over low admission rates from the current semester, fall 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The departments to be closed include development studies, geography, geology, history, social anthropology, statistics, logistics and supply chain analytics, human development and family studies, and home economics, according to official documents.<\/p>\n<p>According to the university administration, only one student had applied for admission in BS human development and family studies, two each in BS development studies, BS logistics and supply chain analytics, and BS home economics, three each in BS geography and BS history, five in BS social anthropology, seven in BS statistics, and 14 in BS geology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As preapproved university regulations, if the number of students admitted in a programme is less than 15, the admission will be considered as cancelled,&#8221; the notification issued by the UoP administration said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As per the undergraduate admission record available in the portal, the mentioned programmes, session fall 2025, are found below the approved number,&#8221; it reads.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the stated regulations, the above-mentioned degree programmes shall not be continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, it is requested that relevant students may be deputed to the office of the Director of Admissions to offer them an alternate academic programme in order to safeguard their academic future,&#8221; the notification added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: The University of Peshawar (UoP) has decided to shut nine Bachelor of Studies (BS) programmes over low admission rates from the current semester, fall 2025. The departments to be closed include development studies, geography, geology, history, social anthropology, statistics, logistics and supply chain analytics, human development and family studies, and home economics, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":89574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[31961,31960],"class_list":["post-89573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-university-of-peshawar","tag-university-of-peshawar-departments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89575,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89573\/revisions\/89575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}