Dow University of Health Sciences

Dow University of Health Sciences, formerly, Dow Medical College, is a prestigious medical school located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Dow Medical College is one of the most respected medical colleges and one of the oldest education institutions of Sindh. Every year thousands of Pre-Medical students from Karachi and other districts of Sindh apply to Dow Medical College for two-hundred seats to pursue graduate medical education. The college has produced a large number of well-trained physicians, who are now spread all over the world, establishing themselves as authorities in different areas of medicine. Until 2003, Dow Medical College was an affiliate institution of the University of Karachi. The administrators and faculty as well as influential alumni of the college as well as sister institutions (Sindh Medical Collegeand Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases) had been trying, for several years, to have the provincial government merge these institutions and create a health sciences university. This effort finally succeeded in 2003 and the college and its sister institutes now enjoy full university charter, together known as the Dow University of Health Sciences