36 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

The Peace and Conflict Studies program of the University of Peshawar aims to attract and develop those groups of students who wish to deepen their understandings of the processes involved in conflicts and are interested in sharpening their knowledge of how to manage conflicts constructively.

The Disaster Management program of the University of Peshawar was formally inaugurated by the worthy Chancellor of the University of Peshawar and the Governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on April 04, 2009. The CDPM, with the grace of the Almighty Allah, is the first ever centre of its kind in the public sector not only in Pakistan but in the whole of South Asian region.

Initially, the Department of Mathematics was established in 1928 in Islamia College affiliated with the University of the Punjab. The department was taken over by the University of Peshawar in 1950 and the Mathematics program was available to students.

The Botany programme of the University of Peshawar is offered by the Department of Botany was established in 1958 with the late Professor Dr. N.A. Qazilbash as the founder Chairman and the sole teacher to shoulder all the teaching responsibilities.

The primary focus of the Regional Studies program of the University of Peshawar is on Politics, Governance, Security, Economy, Geography, Society and Culture etc. of the immediate neighboring countries as well as of Pakistan.

The need was rightly felt by the top leadership of the University. This all pervasive thought bore fruit resulting in the establishment of the Electronics program of the University of Peshawar in 1988.

The Department of Social Work is the centre of thriving teaching and research activities. The department runs the Social Work programme of the University of Peshawar.

The Art and Design programme of the University of Peshawar started to being offered by the Department of Art and Design in 1964 with a view to imparting and promoting art education and with the future planning to raise its standard to the degree level.

The Department of history started functioning in the Islamia College. Later it was shifted to the first floor of the building next to Teachers Students Centre where now Department of Computer Science is located. The History program is offered by University of Peshawar

The Economics program of the University of Peshawar is offered by the Department of Economics, which was established in 1950 and is now a well-reputed teaching, research, and training institute.

The College is currently offering the Commerce program of the University of Peshawar with specialization in the fields of Accounting, Finance, Human Resource Management and Marketing.

As a field of study, the Political Science program of the University of Peshawar reaches to many levels from the evolution of political philosophy and the character of contemporary political concepts to the problems of development in emerging nations, from the crisis of governance in Pakistan to the interaction of State, Society and System in the international arena.

The main objective of the Gender Studies program of the University of Peshawar is to interrogate the power play behind gender roles and expecially by exploring identity formations and political “correctness.".

Run by a highly professional faculty, the Journalism program of the University of Peshawar has so far produced a large number of graduates, most of whom work in widely-read Urdu, English and Pashto newspapers, besides radio, television, Information Department and other media-related organizations.

The Geography program of the University of Peshawar is committed to the mission of quality teaching and research, in the field of the Physical, Human and Applied Geography, under the major themes of man-environment interaction, natural resource management and conservation, application of Technical Geography i.e. Geomatics and Spatial Analysis of various natural and anthropogenic phenomena.

The Department of Sociology was established in 1982. With the grace of Allah Almighty, it has touched the high peak of success in a short time after its inception and now it is included in the list of the distinguished departments of the University. The Department has the honour to offer the Sociology program of the University of Peshawar.