Edwardes College Peshawar (Urdu: ایڈورڈز کالج پشاور, Pashto: اېډوارډز کالج پېښور) is a semi-government degree college and the oldest higher education institution in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The college, affiliated with the University of Peshawar, has about 3,000 students in Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Business Administration, Higher National Diploma, and Computer Sciences.
The college's undergraduate and graduate degree programs lead to the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), 4 year BS Programme in English and Computer Science, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and 5 years LLB degrees awarded through the University of Peshawar Edwardes also offers an A-Level program and the Faculty of Arts (F.A.) and Faculty of Science (F.Sc.) certificates through the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Higher National Diploma (H.N.D.) BS English program in business and information technology offers the option of a third year in an institution in the U.K., U.S.A. or Australia.
Originally a co-educational college, it became a boys-only college in the 1930s. Edwardes became co-educational again since 2000 with about 200 female students and 15 women among its faculty members, with the number of women anticipated to increase. The college has a vital community life, which includes freedom of worship for all faiths, sporting events, a debating society, drama productions, and student publications. Up to 1974 the institution was run by as organisation affiliated with the Church Mission Society. However, following Nationalisation Reforms of 1974 it was handed over to the Board of Governors headed by NWFP Governor. A ruling of the Peshawar High Court dated 14 November 2019 dismissed the plea of the Principal challenging the nationalisation of the college.
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History
The Church Missionary Society established the Church Mission College in 1900 as an outgrowth of Edwardes High School, which had been founded in 1855 by the society as the first institution of western-style schooling in the northwest frontier region of what was British India. For many years the college was the only institution of higher education in the northwest frontier. Sir Herbert Edwardes was a British colonial administrator and commander whose name the college later adopted.
The first major college building, now known as the Old Hall, was built in 1910 in a Moghul style that was replicated in a number of the college's later buildings. Edwardes College was visited three times by the founder of the nation, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, by Mahatma Gandhi, and the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. In its early years Edwardes awarded degrees through the University of Punjab; since 1952 its degrees have been awarded through the University of Peshawar.
Hostel
Edwardes has hostel accommodation for about 200 male students.
The main hostel is composed of four halls;
1. Edmonds Hall (1st Year Students)
2. Woolmer Hall (2nd Year Students)
3. B-Block Hall (2nd Year Students)
4. Founder's Hall (Degree Students)
Principals
Rev. J. H. Hoare (1900–14)
Rev. J. A. Wood (1914–20)
Rev. A. C. Clarke (1920–21)
Rev. P. W. Stephenson (1921–24)
Rev. R. H. Noble (1924–28 and 1948–51)
Rev. C. A. Bender (1928–37)
Rev. A. M. Dalaya (1937–48)
Rev. K. W. S. Jardine (1953–54)
Canon W. F. Hawkes (1952–53 and 1954–55)
Dr. P. Edmonds (1955–78)
Dr. J. D. Murray (1978–79)
Rev. N. Green (1980–82)
Dr. T. Woolmer (1983–87)
Dr. R. H. Pont (1988–95)
R. Brooke Smith (1995-2000)
Canon Huw Thomas (2001–05)
Dr. David L. Gosling (2006–10)
Rev. Canon Dr. Titus Presler (2011–13)
P. Dr. Nayer Fardows (2014–19)
Shujat Ali Khan (2019–Current)
Key Programs
Intermediate Courses
Pre-Medical
Pre-Engineering
General Science
Humanities
4 Years Degree Programs
BS Computer Science
BS English
BS Economics
BBA (Hons)
BS Law (Five years)
Prospective Courses
BS Biotechnology
BS Chemistry
BS Physics
BS Political Science
BS in other Social and Pure Sciences
Professional and Management Studies
Higher National Diploma (HND)
Diploma in Strategic Management
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
A-Level Courses
Pre-Medical
Pre-Engineering
Arts
Special Courses
Community Service Program
English Immersion Program
Language Classes Offered At HOARE CENTER OF MODERN LANGUAGES
German
Pashto
Chinese
French
Spanish
Arabic
Persian
Connections
Cambridge University, UK
Liverpool Hope University, UK
PASCH-Goethe Institute FDR, Germany
Colleges and Universities of Anglican Communion (CUAC)
Awards
Governor KPK's Award
Need Based Award
Free Education Award
Annual Awards
Duke of Edinburgh's Award
Notable alumni
Mehr Chand Khanna, a lawyer, well known politician and Finance Minister of NWFP from 1937–46
Khalilur Rehman, ex-Commander of Pakistan Navy and Bahrain Navy a, Hilal-e-Imtiaz (military), served as the Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, appointed in 2005
Shafaat Ali, actor, comedian, television host
Fasi Zaka, satirist, political commentator
Syed Sarwar, Software Engineer at IMSciences Peshawar
Humayun Saifullah Khan, politician
Shahram Khan, Senior Minister Health & Information Technology Khyber Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
Ahmad Faraz, Urdu poet
Wajid Ali Khan, CSP
Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian film and theatre actor/director/producer
Dr. Khan Sahib (Dr. Abdul Jabbar Khan), first chief minister of West Pakistan
Aftab Ahmad Sherpao, politician and former chief minister, North-West Frontier Province
Fida Mohammad Khan, founder of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and former governor, North-West Frontier Province
Muhammad Suhail Zubairy, professor of physics at the Texas A&M University