Higher Education Department, Government of The Punjab

Educational network

Explore Punjab’s Higher Education Network

Public colleges, universities and examination boards working under the Higher Education Department, with direct routes to the authoritative search systems.

Public CollegesDivision-wise lists and the College Information System.Universities34 public and 35 private sector universities.BISEsNine Boards of Intermediate & Secondary Education.ProgramsProgramme search on the official HEP portal. (opens the official site in a new tab)

Search

Search institutions

Filter universities and boards here. For public colleges and programmes, HED’s Higher Education Portal (HEP) remains the authoritative system.

Search programs on the official HEP portal (opens the official site in a new tab)Find public colleges by district (opens the official site in a new tab)

78 institutions in this list (public colleges are searched through HEP)

36 districts have a District Education Office (Colleges); see the District Explorer below.

Public colleges

Public colleges by division

The department manages public colleges in all districts through the Directorate of Public Instruction (Colleges), divisional and district directorates.

College Information System (opens the official site in a new tab)
Search colleges district-wise (opens the official site in a new tab)Location maps (opens the official site in a new tab)

Universities

Universities working under HED

Public sector universities (34)

Nankana Sahib

  • Guru Nanak University

Private sector universities (35)

D.G. Khan

  • South Punjab Institute of Science and Technology D.G. Khan
  • Ghazi National Institute of Engineering and Sciences

Lahore

Source: hed.punjab.gov.pk/universities (opens in a new tab) · checked 30 September 2026.

Boards

Boards of Intermediate & Secondary Education

A network of nine boards, one at each divisional headquarters, conducts the examination of Intermediate classes in public and private colleges across Punjab.

District explorer

Find your district education office

Select a district to see the office of the Deputy Director of Education (Colleges) and the divisional Director. An interactive map will be added once an authoritative boundary dataset is supplied.

Lahore Division

Lahore

Deputy Director of Education (Colleges) — DG&ABT

Rabia Akhtar

Deputy Director of Education (Colleges) — R&SMT

Naeem Iqbal

Director of Education (Colleges), Lahore

Mr. Ahsan Mukhtar

Lahore Division colleges (PDF) (opens the official site in a new tab)District-wise college search (HEP) (opens the official site in a new tab)

Contact details are as listed on the HED Contact Us page (checked 30 September 2026) and may change.

Full directory on the Contact page

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