Riphah International University

Riphah International University is a private university in Pakistan, chartered by the federal government in 2002 and sponsored by the not-for-profit Islamic International Medical College Trust, which had run a medical college in Rawalpindi since 1996.里法国际大学是巴基斯坦的一所私立大学，2002 年获联邦政府特许设立，由非营利的伊斯兰国际医学院信托基金赞助，该基金自 1996 年起在拉瓦尔品第经营一所医学院。

Its teaching is spread over fourteen constituent units, from the Islamic International Medical College and the Islamic International Dental College to engineering, computing, rehabilitation sciences, pharmacy, media, business, public policy and veterinary science.其教学分布在十四个组成单位，从伊斯兰国际医学院、伊斯兰国际牙科学院，到工程、计算机、康复科学、药学、传媒、商学、公共政策与兽医科学。

The university sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and in the 1001-1200 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, while OpenAlex records 15,801 works and 303,281 citations for its researchers.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，OpenAlex 则记录其研究人员 15,801 项成果与 303,281 次引用。

History

• Pakistan's private higher education sector opened in 1983, when Aga Khan University became the first privately chartered university in the country, and Riphah belongs to the second wave that followed the sector's expansion during the 1990s.巴基斯坦的私立高等教育始于 1983 年，阿加汗大学成为该国第一所获特许的私立大学，里法国际大学则属于 1990 年代该领域扩张之后出现的第二波院校。
• The university's direct ancestor, the Islamic International Medical College, was founded in Rawalpindi in 1996 by the Islamic International Medical College Trust under its founding managing trustee Zulfiqar Ali Khan.该校的直接前身伊斯兰国际医学院于 1996 年由伊斯兰国际医学院信托基金在拉瓦尔品第创办，创办人是该基金的首任执行受托人齐勒菲卡尔·阿里·汗。
• The college admitted its first MBBS class in 1996, which makes the medical school six years older than the university that later absorbed it as its founding constituent.该学院于 1996 年招收首届医学本科生，因此这所医学院比后来将其吸纳为创始组成单位的大学还要早六年。
• The medical college was built as a not-for-profit project, and the trust's stated purpose was to channel the income of its institutions into education and health care rather than into private returns.这所医学院按非营利项目兴建，信托基金公开申明的宗旨是把所属机构的收入投入教育与医疗事业，而非转化为私人回报。
• On the strength of that college, the federal government granted Riphah International University its charter in 2002, with powers to award degrees in medicine, dentistry, engineering, business and the social sciences.凭借这所医学院的基础，联邦政府于 2002 年授予里法国际大学特许状，授权其在医学、牙科、工程、商学与社会科学领域颁发学位。
• The charter was granted in the same year that the Higher Education Commission was created to replace the University Grants Commission, so Riphah grew up under a new federal regulator with power to rank, fund and inspect universities.特许状颁发之年恰逢高等教育委员会取代大学拨款委员会成立，因此里法是在一个拥有排名、拨款与检查权力的新联邦监管机构之下成长起来的。
• Under the 2002 charter the president of Pakistan is the patron of the university, an arrangement that gives the institution a formal link to the head of state that most private universities do not have.依据 2002 年特许状，巴基斯坦总统担任该校赞助人，这一安排使学校与国家元首之间具有多数私立大学所没有的正式联系。
• The same charter placed policy authority in a board of governors and an academic council, with a vice-chancellor as chief executive and academic officer, a structure that has survived every later reorganisation.同一份特许状把政策权力交给董事会与学术委员会，由副校长担任行政与学术首长，这一架构在此后的历次调整中一直保留。
• Riphah began teaching in 2002 with the medical college as its single constituent, and the educationist Anis Ahmad became the founding vice-chancellor of the new university.里法于 2002 年以医学院为唯一组成单位开始办学，教育学家阿尼斯·艾哈迈德出任这所新大学的创始副校长。
• The first chancellor was Zulfiqar Ali Khan, the trust's founding managing trustee, while Hassan Muhammad Khan has served as pro-chancellor and has represented the university in its later international partnerships.首任校监是信托基金的创始执行受托人齐勒菲卡尔·阿里·汗，哈桑·穆罕默德·汗则长期担任副校监，并在后来的国际合作中代表学校。
• The 18th Amendment of 2010 devolved education to the provinces, but higher education accreditation and funding stayed with the federal commission, which kept Riphah's charter anchored in federal rather than provincial law.2010 年第十八修正案把教育事务下放给各省，但高等教育认证与拨款仍归联邦委员会，因此里法的特许状始终锚定在联邦而非省法之下。
• The university's veterinary college was established in 2012 and offered a five-year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree, extending the institution from human medicine into animal health.该校兽医学院于 2012 年成立，开设五年制兽医学博士课程，把学校从人类医学扩展到动物健康领域。
• That veterinary programme was accredited by the Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council and recognised by the Higher Education Commission, the two bodies that govern veterinary practice and degree standards in Pakistan.该兽医项目获得巴基斯坦兽医理事会认证，并获高等教育委员会承认，这两个机构分别主管巴基斯坦的兽医执业与学位标准。
• Two decades after the charter, in 2022, the portfolio had grown from a single medical college into a group of colleges covering dentistry, engineering, rehabilitation, pharmacy, media, business and public policy.特许状颁发二十年后，即 2022 年，学校已从一所医学院发展为涵盖牙科、工程、康复、药学、传媒、商学与公共政策的学院群。
• By 2024 the university reported fourteen constituent units, an expansion achieved largely by adding professional colleges around the original medical and dental schools rather than by merging with other institutions.到 2024 年，学校已有十四个组成单位，这一扩张主要靠在原有医学与牙科学院周围增设专业学院完成，而非通过与其他院校合并。
• The university has also moved beyond Pakistan, operating the RAK College of Dental Sciences in the United Arab Emirates and working towards a campus in Mauritius as of 2025.学校还走出了巴基斯坦国境，在阿联酋运营哈伊马角牙科学院，并自 2025 年起推进在毛里求斯的校区计划。
• Its growth has been financed from tuition and clinical income rather than an endowment, a pattern typical of Pakistani private universities and one that ties expansion closely to student demand.学校的发展依靠学费与临床收入而非捐赠基金，这是巴基斯坦私立大学的典型模式，也使扩张与招生需求紧密挂钩。
• Because the trust already owned a medical college, a dental college and hospital land before 2002, the new university could begin with clinical teaching in place rather than building a faculty from scratch.由于信托基金在 2002 年之前已拥有医学院、牙科学院与医院用地，新大学一开始就能依托现成的临床教学，而不必从零组建师资。
• The dental college, the trust's second project, gave the new university a second professional faculty from the outset and a dental hospital in which BDS students treat patients under supervision.牙科学院是信托基金的第二个项目，它使新大学自始便拥有第二个专业学院，并拥有一所可供牙科学生在其监督下接诊的牙科医院。
• The 2002 charter allowed the university to open campuses and affiliated colleges elsewhere in Pakistan, which is the legal basis for its later sites in Lahore, Faisalabad and Malakand.2002 年特许状允许学校在巴基斯坦其他地方开设校区与附属学院，这正是其后来在拉合尔、费萨拉巴德与马拉坎德设点的法律依据。
• With the colleges came the trust's teaching hospitals in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, so that the 2002 university inherited clinical beds, operating theatres and outpatient clinics as well as classrooms.与学院一同而来的还有信托基金在伊斯兰堡与拉瓦尔品第的教学医院，因此 2002 年成立的大学继承的不只是教室，还有临床床位、手术室与门诊。

Academics

• Fourteen constituent units deliver undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programmes, and the oldest of them, the Islamic International Medical College, remains the academic core of the university.十四个组成单位开设本科、硕士与研究生课程，其中历史最久的伊斯兰国际医学院仍是学校的学术核心。
• The Islamic International Dental College teaches the BDS degree and runs specialist training in oral surgery, orthodontics and prosthodontics through its dental hospital.伊斯兰国际牙科学院开设牙外科学士课程，并通过其牙科医院开展口腔外科、正畸与修复等专科培训。
• The Islamic International Engineering College offers electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, while the Faculty of Computing teaches computer science, software engineering and information technology.伊斯兰国际工程学院开设电气、机械与土木工程，计算机学院则开设计算机科学、软件工程与信息技术。
• The Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences is among the largest providers of doctor of physical therapy training in the private sector, and it also teaches occupational therapy and speech and language therapy.里法康复科学学院是私营部门中规模较大的物理治疗博士培养单位之一，同时开设作业治疗与言语语言治疗课程。
• The Riphah Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences runs the Pharm-D programme and research in pharmaceutics, pharmacology and pharmacognosy, and is accredited by the national pharmacy council.里法学院开设药学博士课程，并在药剂学、药理学与生药学方向开展研究，其项目获国家药学理事会认证。
• The Riphah Institute of Media Sciences teaches film, television, advertising and digital media, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities covers psychology, education, Islamic studies and international relations.里法传媒科学学院开设影视、广告与数字媒体课程，社会科学与人文学院则涵盖心理学、教育学、伊斯兰研究与国际关系。
• The Riphah Center of Islamic Business and the Riphah School of Leadership teach Islamic banking, finance and management, fields in which Pakistan's banks have built a substantial market since the 2000s.里法伊斯兰商业中心与里法领导力学院教授伊斯兰银行、金融与管理，自 2000 年代以来巴基斯坦银行业在这些领域形成了可观市场。
• The Riphah Institute of Public Policy and the Riphah Institute of Informatics add policy analysis and information systems to a portfolio otherwise dominated by the health professions.里法公共政策研究所与里法信息学研究所为以健康类专业为主的学科结构补充了政策分析与信息系统方向。
• The Faculty of Basic Sciences teaches anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and community medicine to students of the medical, dental and rehabilitation colleges.基础科学学院为医学、牙科与康复各学院的学生教授解剖学、生理学、生物化学、药理学与社区医学。
• The Riphah Institute of Systems Engineering offers systems-oriented engineering teaching, and the veterinary college adds a five-year DVM programme accredited by the Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council.里法系统工程研究所提供以系统为导向的工程教学，兽医学院则增设获巴基斯坦兽医理事会认证的五年制兽医学博士项目。
• Clinical teaching depends on the trust's hospitals in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, where medical, dental and rehabilitation students complete rotations in surgery, medicine, obstetrics and paediatrics.临床教学依托信托基金在伊斯兰堡与拉瓦尔品第的医院，医学、牙科与康复专业学生在那里完成外科、内科、妇产科与儿科轮转。
• The university's research output of 15,801 works and 303,281 citations is unusually large for an institution founded in 2002, reflecting the publication-heavy culture of Pakistani medical faculties.该校 15,801 项成果与 303,281 次引用的科研产出，对一所 2002 年创办的院校而言规模偏大，反映出巴基斯坦医学院校重视论文发表的传统。
• Research strengths cluster in clinical medicine, dentistry, pharmacology and rehabilitation, with smaller outputs in engineering, computing and the social sciences.研究优势集中于临床医学、牙科、药理学与康复领域，工程、计算机与社会科学方面的产出相对较少。
• The university runs continuing medical education and continuing professional development courses for practitioners, a function that Pakistani licensing bodies require doctors and dentists to fulfil.学校为执业者开设继续医学教育与继续专业发展课程，这是巴基斯坦执业管理机构要求医生与牙医完成的义务。
• Teaching is largely English-medium, as in most Pakistani professional universities, and the curriculum for medical and dental degrees follows the national competency framework set by the regulator.与巴基斯坦多数专业类大学一样，教学基本以英语进行，医学与牙科课程遵循监管机构制定的国家能力框架。
• The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, the regulator created in 1962, recognises the medical and dental colleges, which is the condition on which their graduates may register to practise.成立于 1962 年的巴基斯坦医学与牙科理事会承认该校的医学院与牙科学院，这是其毕业生得以注册执业的前提条件。
• Because the university is sponsored by a trust rather than owned by a family or a company, its surplus is reinvested in colleges and hospitals, a governance feature it shares with the country's other trust-run universities.由于学校由信托基金赞助而非家族或公司所有，其结余被再投入学院与医院，这一治理特征与本国其他信托办学的大学相同。
• The university runs on the semester and credit-hour system required by the Higher Education Commission, with four-year bachelor's degrees and five-year professional degrees in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science.学校采用高等教育委员会要求的学期制与学分制，本科多为四年制，医学、牙科与兽医则为五年制专业学位。

Campus

• The university's administrative seat and main teaching campus are in Sector I-14 of Islamabad, on the city's north-western edge, while its medical and dental colleges sit in Rawalpindi.学校的行政中心与主要教学区位于伊斯兰堡西北缘的 I-14 区，医学院与牙科学院则设在拉瓦尔品第。
• Riphah also lists campuses in Lahore, Faisalabad and Malakand, which deliver programmes in engineering, computing, business and rehabilitation to students who do not move to the capital.里法还设有拉合尔、费萨拉巴德与马拉坎德校区，为不必前往首都就读的学生提供工程、计算机、商学与康复类课程。
• Its overseas project, the RAK College of Dental Sciences in Ras Al Khaimah, extends the dental curriculum into the United Arab Emirates and recruits students from the Gulf region.其海外项目哈伊马角牙科学院位于阿联酋哈伊马角，把牙科课程延伸到阿联酋，并从海湾地区招生。
• The Islamabad campus is built around a mosque, a library and teaching blocks for the health and computing faculties, a layout that reflects the university's emphasis on an Islamic environment.伊斯兰堡校区以清真寺、图书馆以及健康与计算机学院的教学楼为主体布局，这一格局体现了学校对伊斯兰环境的强调。
• Clinical facilities include the trust's hospitals in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, where dental chairs, operating theatres and rehabilitation gyms serve both patients and students.临床设施包括信托基金在伊斯兰堡与拉瓦尔品第的医院，其中的牙科椅位、手术室与康复训练厅同时服务于病人与学生。
• Teaching at the Rawalpindi colleges takes place beside the trust's hospitals, so that medical and dental students move between lecture rooms and wards within a short walk.拉瓦尔品第各学院的教学与信托基金的医院相邻，医学与牙科学生步行很短距离即可在教室与病房之间往返。
• Hostels accommodate students from outside Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and the university runs a bus network linking its campuses with the twin cities' residential districts.宿舍接收来自伊斯兰堡与拉瓦尔品第以外的学生，学校还运营班车网络，把各校区与双城住宅区连接起来。
• The Lahore and Faisalabad campuses occupy rented and purpose-built premises rather than a single owned estate, which is why the university describes its footprint as a network rather than a campus.拉合尔与费萨拉巴德校区使用租赁与专门建造的场所，而非单一自有园区，因此学校把自己的校址描述为网络而非一座校园。
• The planned Mauritius campus would be the university's first outside Asia and the Gulf, and it is intended to serve students from East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands.规划中的毛里求斯校区将成为该校在亚洲与海湾以外的第一处校址，意在服务东非与印度洋岛屿的学生。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, Riphah is placed in the 1201-1400 band, the shared range QS assigns to institutions ranked between 1201 and 1400 globally.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，里法国际大学被列入 1201-1400 区间，这是 QS 对全球第 1201 至 1400 名院校给出的并列档位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1001-1200 band, its strongest result among the four main global tables that year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入 1001-1200 区间，这是它当年四大全球主榜中的最好成绩。
• Riphah did not enter the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities list and was not placed in the main table of the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.里法国际大学未进入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• Its OpenAlex record of 15,801 works and 303,281 citations gives it a citation-to-publication ratio of roughly nineteen, high for a university barely two decades old.OpenAlex 记录的 15,801 项成果与 303,281 次引用，使其篇均引用约为十九次，对一所建校仅二十余年的大学而言相当高。
• The THE band of 1001-1200 is the university's most visible international marker and is the figure its own publications cite when comparing it with older Pakistani universities.泰晤士高等教育 1001-1200 的档位是该校最醒目的国际标识，也是其官方材料在与其他历史更久的巴基斯坦大学比较时引用的数字。
• Within Pakistan, recognition rests on the medical and dental colleges, whose graduates register with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and practise across the country and the Gulf.在巴基斯坦国内，其声誉主要建立在医学院与牙科学院之上，毕业生在巴基斯坦医学与牙科理事会注册，并在本国与海湾地区执业。
• The veterinary college's accreditation by the Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council and the Higher Education Commission is the standard test of quality for animal-health degrees in the country.兽医学院获得巴基斯坦兽医理事会与高等教育委员会认证，这是本国动物健康类学位质量的标准检验。
• Its rehabilitation sciences college is one of the larger producers of physical therapists in Pakistan, a field that expanded rapidly after 2000 as private clinics and sports medicine grew.其康复科学学院是巴基斯坦规模较大的物理治疗师培养单位之一，这一领域在 2000 年以后随着私立诊所与运动医学的发展而迅速扩张。
• Research visibility is concentrated in clinical medicine and pharmacology, and the university's citation count is carried by medical papers co-authored with teaching hospitals rather than by engineering output.其研究可见度集中在临床医学与药理学，引用量主要由与教学医院合作发表的医学论文支撑，而非工程类产出。

Student life

• Student life is organised around the Islamic calendar and the university's stated Islamic ethos, with congregational prayer, Ramadan activities and Islamic studies courses forming part of the weekly routine.学生生活围绕伊斯兰历与学校申明的伊斯兰精神展开，集体礼拜、斋月活动与伊斯兰研究课程构成每周生活的一部分。
• Each constituent college runs its own student societies for medicine, dentistry, engineering, computing and media, which organise seminars, sports fixtures and charity drives through the year.各组成学院分别设有医学、牙科、工程、计算机与传媒学生社团，全年组织讲座、体育比赛与慈善募捐活动。
• Sports facilities on the Islamabad campus support cricket, football, badminton and table tennis, and inter-college tournaments are a recurring feature of the academic calendar.伊斯兰堡校区的体育设施可开展板球、足球、羽毛球与乒乓球活动，院际比赛是学年日程中的常见项目。
• Hostel life is significant because many students come from outside the twin cities, and hostel committees organise study circles, Eid events and orientation for new entrants.宿舍生活十分重要，因为许多学生来自双城之外，宿舍委员会为新同学组织学习小组、开斋节活动与入学导引。
• Clinical students spend much of their final years in hospital wards, so their social life is shaped by shift rotas at the trust's hospitals rather than by the campus alone.临床专业学生最后几年大部分时间在病房度过，其社交生活因而由信托基金医院的轮班安排塑造，而不只依赖校园。
• The university's Islamic identity is visible in its dress expectations, its prayer facilities and the Islamic studies component required of undergraduates.学校的伊斯兰属性体现在着装要求、礼拜设施以及在若干校区为男女学生分设的安排上。
• Because the main campus sits in I-14 rather than the city centre, students rely on university transport to reach the shops and restaurants of Islamabad's newer sectors.由于主校区位于 I-14 区而非市中心，学生需依靠校车前往伊斯兰堡新区的商店与餐馆。
• Ramadan and Eid holidays structure the academic year more visibly than in Western universities, and examinations are timetabled around the fasting month.斋月与开斋节假期对学年结构的影响比西方大学更为明显，考试安排也会避开斋月。
• The university's media sciences students produce film and television work shown at internal festivals, giving the Islamabad campus an arts calendar that the medical colleges lack.传媒科学专业学生创作的影视作品在校内影展放映，为伊斯兰堡校区带来医学院所没有的艺术活动日程。

Notable people

• Zulfiqar Ali Khan, the founding managing trustee of the Islamic International Medical College Trust, established the medical college in 1996 and became the university's first chancellor in 2002.齐勒菲卡尔·阿里·汗是伊斯兰国际医学院信托基金的创始执行受托人，他于 1996 年创办医学院，并在 2002 年成为大学首任校监。
• Anis Ahmad, an educationist, was the founding vice-chancellor and shaped the university's early academic structure around the medical college and its trust.教育学家阿尼斯·艾哈迈德是创始副校长，围绕医学院及其信托基金塑造了学校早期的学术架构。
• Hassan Muhammad Khan, the university's pro-chancellor, has represented Riphah in its international partnerships and in dealings with foreign universities and delegations.副校监哈桑·穆罕默德·汗在国际合作以及与外国大学和代表团的往来中代表里法。
• The president of Pakistan serves as patron of the university, an office that has given the institution ceremonial standing since the 2002 charter.巴基斯坦总统担任该校赞助人，这一职位自 2002 年特许状颁发以来为学校提供了礼仪性的地位。
• The board of governors, chaired under the charter, includes the chancellor and pro-chancellor and appoints the vice-chancellor who runs the university day to day.依据特许状设立的董事会由校监与副校监等组成，负责任命主持学校日常事务的副校长。
• The academic council, the second policy body created by the charter, approves curricula and examination rules for all fourteen constituent units.学术委员会是特许状设立的第二个政策机构，负责核准十四个组成单位的课程与考试规则。
• Many of the university's medical graduates serve in the trust's hospitals in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and others practise in the United Kingdom, the Gulf and North America after licensing examinations.该校许多医学毕业生在信托基金位于伊斯兰堡与拉瓦尔品第的医院服务，另一些人在通过执业考试后于英国、海湾与北美行医。
• The dental college's graduates register with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council before practising, and many of them work in the twin cities' private clinics.牙科学院的毕业生在拉瓦尔品第与伊斯兰堡地区的私立牙科执业中占有相当比例，这使学校的影响力超出其科研产出。
• The 2002 charter keeps the presidency of Pakistan as patron and separates that ceremonial role from the chancellor's, a division that has survived later amendments.信托基金与学校的领导层始终集中于少数创办家族与教育界人士手中，这与巴基斯坦其他一些私立大学由公司持股的模式形成对照。