he Iqra University is a private university primarily located in residential area of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The university has additional campuses in Islamabad and Peshawar as well.

Founded as Asian Management Institute (AMI) in 1998 by a group of Karachi-based industrialists, the university was renamed as "Iqra University" after granted university status in 2002 by HEC. The university offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral studies programmes in engineering, film studies, management sciences, administration, and related social and natural sciences disciplines. Recently, Iqra University inaugurated it's North Campus named asIqra University North Campus 

It is one of the notable private institution of higher learning and currently ranked in among top-ten institution for "business category" by the HEC in 2012.In addition, the university is noted as being the largest employer of doctorate holders as faculty. Also, the university has a largest research publication output than any other higher learning institution of the country.

 

IQRA University was ranked at No. 1 in Business category as per Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) rankings 2012. Latest figures from ISI Thompson shown that IQRA University has published research papers more than the other top business schools of Pakistan. In 2011 IQRA University was ranked as the no.1 institute among all private institutions in the province, according to the Charter Inspection and Evaluation Committee (CIEC).

In a meeting held on July 13, 2012, NCEAC-HEC (National Computing Education Accreditation Council of Higher Education Commission) has granted accreditation to the Computer Science Program of IQRA University for the batches graduating in the academic year 2008-12, 2009–13 and 2010-14. NCEAC-HEC also evaluated the quality standard of the said program and placed into the top most ranking (W-Category).