Admission Elegibility
- A person holding Intermediate Science Certificate (Pre-Medical) or an equivalent certificate from any recognized Institute/College with at least 50% marks excluding marks for Hafiz-e-Quran, or any other marks specified shall be eligible for admission.
- Admission will be on open merit basis based on marks obtained in the last degree.
- Age: A candidate must not be more than 23 years of age on October of the year of admission provided that the vice-chancellor may relax the age limit is a very exceptional case.
Academic Standing
Grade point average:
- Maximum grade point average 4.00
- Minimum grade point average for obtaining the degree 2.50
- To remain on the role of university a student shall be required to maintain the following minimum CGPA otherwise he/she shall be ceased on the university role.
- A student who maintain the minimum GPA/CGPA for promotion and merits the requirements will be promoted to the next semester.
- A student who does not meet the requirements made repeat the whole semester once only. The course creates that student earns in the repeated semester shall replace the previously earned course grades.
- During the specified minimum duration for completing the degree, a student may repeat those course of the previous semester in which he/she secured the grade “F” provided the course load does not exceed the maximum limit of credit hours in a semester. Repetition of lowest grades will be allowed after completing last semester if, the CGPA is less than the degree requirements.
- In the 8th semester if, a student fails to achieve the 2.5 CGPA, he/she have to repeat the course / courses with F & D Grades, so as to make CGPA of 2.5 within the maximum time period allowed for the degree.
Proposed Study Plan BS Biotechnology
| Semester – I | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | BIOT-301 | Biochemistry-I | 3 (2-2) |
| 2 | BIOT-302 | Cell Biology | 3 (2-2) |
| 3 | BCH-302 | Organic Chemistry | 3 (2-2) |
| 4 | ENG-301 | Functional English | 3 (3-0) |
| 5 | SSH-301 | Pakistan Studies | 2 (2-0) |
| 6 | MATH-303 | General Mathematics | 3 (3-0) |
| Total | 17 | ||
| Semester – II | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | BIOT-303 | Introduction to Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 2 | BIOT-304 | Molecular Biology | 3 (2-2) |
| 3 | BIOT-305 | Microbiology | 3 (2-2) |
| 4 | BCH-304 | Inorganic Chemistry | 3 (2-2) |
| 5 | ENG-302 | Communication Skills | 3 (3-0) |
| 5 | STAT-301 | Statistics and Biometry | 3 (3-0) |
| Total | 18 | ||
| Semester – III | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | IS/ET-401 | Islamic Studies/Ethics | 2 (2-0) |
| 2 | BCH-504 | Molecular Biology | 3 (2-2) |
| 3 | MIC-401 | General Microbiology-III | 3 (2-2) |
| 4 | MIC-402 | Biochemistry-I | 3 (2-2) |
| 5 | MIC-403 | Cell Biology-II | 3 (2-2) |
| 6 | MIC-404 | Microbial Taxonomy | 3 (2-2) |
| Total | 17 | ||
| Semester – IV | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | BIOT-404 | Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation | 3 (2-2) |
| 2 | BIOT-405 | Genetic Engineering | 3 (2-2) |
| 3 | BIOT-406 | Bioinformatics | 3 (1-4) |
| 4 | BIOT-407 | Principles of Biochemical Engineering | 3 (2-2) |
| 5 | MGT-351 | Principles of Biochemical Engineering | 3(3-0) |
| 6 | ECON-301 | Introduction to Economics | 3 (2-0) |
| Total | 17 | ||
| Semester – V | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | BIOT-501 | Biological Physics | 3 (3-0) |
| 2 | BIOT-502 | Cell and Tissue Culture | 3 (2-2) |
| 3 | BIOT-503 | Cell and Tissue Culture | 2 (2-0) |
| 4 | BIOT-504 | Microbial Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 5 | BIOT-505 | Environmental Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 6 | BIOT-506 | Ecology, Diversity and Evolution-II | 3 (2-2 ) |
| Total | 17 | ||
| Semester – VI | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | BIOT-507 | Birology and Immunology | 3 (3-0) |
| 2 | BIOT-508 | Health Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 3 | BIOT-509 | Industrial Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 4 | BIOT-510 | Agriculture Biotechnology | 3 (2-2) |
| 5 | BIOT-511 | Research Methodology & Skill Enhancement | 3 (2-2) |
| 6 | BIOT-520 | Seminar-I | 1 (1-0) |
| Total | 16 | ||
| Semester – VII | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | BIOT-601 | Food Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 2 | BIOT-602 | Pharmaceutical Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 3 | BIOT-603 | Animal Biotechnology | 3 (3-0) |
| 4 | BIOT-604 | Genomics and Proteomics | 3 (3-0) |
| 5 | Optional-I | 3 (*-*) | |
| 6 | Optional-II | 3 (*-*) | |
| Total | 18 | ||
| Semester – VIII | |||
| Sr. No | Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| 1 | BIOT-605 | Genetics Resources & Conservation | 3 (3-0) |
| 2 | BIOT-606 | Computational Genomics | 2 (2-0) |
| 3 | BIOT-620 | Seminar-II | 1 (0-0) |
| 4 | BIOT-621 | Research Product/Internship/Special Paper | 3 (0-6) |
| 5 | STAT-202 | Biostatistics | 3 (2-2) |
| Optional-III | 3 (*-*) | ||
| Total | 15 | ||
