Islamabad: The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has set up points for sale
of admission forms at its main campus in Islamabad and 44 regional campuses and
122 coordination offices across the country in order to facilitate students at
their doorsteps.
Admission forms from matriculation to master’s level programmes can be submitted
along with prescribed fee in countrywide branches of Bank Al-Falah, Habib Bank
Limited, First Women Bank and Allied Bank and at nominated branches of National
Bank of Pakistan and Muslim Commercial Bank. The detail of designated branches
is available in prospectuses as well as in regional offices.
The last date for submission of admission forms is September 5.
According to the AIOU director admissions, PhD, MS-MPhil, MSc (Statistics), COL
(MBA-MPA) and LLM-MS Shari’ah have been offered on merit basis. All those
interested in admissions in these programmes should send their admission forms
directly to their concerned departments without admission fee according to
procedures laid down in the prospectus.
From the current Autumn Semester 2014, there will be no requirement of NTS-GAT
(general-subject) for admissions in PhD and MS-MPhil programmes. However, entry
test will be conducted by the concerned department, he added.
According to the director admissions, ‘continuing admission forms’ have already
been dispatched to all continuing students, however, if somehow any student has
not received the admission form, he or she could download these from the AIOU
website www.aiou.edu.pk and deposit fee in any designated bank branch till due
date to avoid late fee charges.
Further details about admissions for the Autumn Semester 2014 can be obtained
from Information Management Unit, Admission Department, on telephone number
051-9057151, information about Teacher Training Programmes on 051-9057426,
secondary programmes on 051-9057431, Higher Secondary on 051-9057432, bachelor’s
programmes on 051-9057435, while for further information of the postgraduate
programmes on 051-9057422.