The Institute of Geographical Information Systems (IGIS) is the first of its kind higher education learning institute in Pakistan where state of the art education in Spatial Sciences and Remote Sensing is delivered. IGIS has modern infrastructure including classrooms, state of art laboratories and digital library. The institute offers four years of Bachelors of Engineering (BE) in Geoinformatics, two years’ MS in Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Ph.D in RS & GIS. Beside the degree programmes, IGIS also offers short courses in RS & GIS to private and public sector organisations across Pakistan on demand.
The Institute has experienced faculty holding MS, PhD and Post Doc degrees in various disciplines from reputed International and National Universities. In the years ahead, IGIS plans to pursue its vision of expanding not only its academic programmes but also the student intakes, without diluting its traditional standards of excellence.
The goal of IGIS is to undertake basic and applied research to educate the next generation of academia and industry leaders, and prepare students for successful careers in relevant professions, keeping in view a very high demand of spatial science.