Facilities

CSS - COMSATS Students Services provides students with range of services designed to help and assist them adjust to university life and to achieve potential in terms of their personal, educational, social and professional goals. Highly skilled staff is specialized in providing students with comprehensive solution to their everyday problems including their adjustment to university environment, handling of academic as well as peer pressure etc. CSS achieves these goals through implementation of many programmes, both within and outside the campus. CSS arranges many co- and extra-curricular activities in order to bring the best out of students and prepare them to the rigors of competition and fair play. ITC provides network infrastructure, software development and, IT training facilities for students, faculty and staff. CIIT Lahore has LAN backbone over fiber optic and all its lush green lawn, hostels and student sitting place have secure WI-FI Internet facility. The Campus has 10 Mbps of CIR bandwidth. CIIT provide its researcher access to Digital Library over high speed link. Video conferencing facility, High-tech server farm provides its users centralized authentication and remote storage. Through CU-Online and COMSIS (Online Student Management System), ITC provides detail information of all academic matters to students, parents and faculty. The whole facility is managed from well equipped server farm. Six air conditioned computer labs, each equipped with fifty work stations with internet facility, along with server room have been setup at the campus. A number of multimedia and overhead projectors are also available. Another lab has been established in girls’ hostel. Cisco Networking Academy helps students in developing valuable information and communication technology to increase access to opportunities for career advancement. It is an innovation that delivers communication technology skills to improve economic opportunities. It provides online courses, interactive tools, and lab activities to help individuals develop the skills needed to fill ICT (Information & Communications Technology) positions in virtually every type of industry. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore campus has fully functional Distance Education facility that aims to provide quality education to students. Using videoconferencing technology, students may interact in real time with foreign professors and faculty from other CIIT campuses. The distance education room has latest equipment and technology with up to 8 MB bandwidth to facilitate students in real time and without any delay. The campus provides hostel facility for both boys and girls students. The accommodation is available on merit-cum-need basis. The hostel has all regular facilities available like laundary, mess, common rooms, and open areas for outdoor activities. CIIT provides pick and drop services to students and employees. Nine buses and two coaches provide this service between campus and the city on subsidized rates. The mission of Job Placement Cell (JPC) is to assist students in finding employment through a variety of services. It also includes assisting them in locating employment opportunities. The JPC offers students grooming sessions, job hunting skills, job data bank, resume development, interviewing skills and students profile directory. Central mosque between academic building and boys’ hostel provides a serene facility for prayers including Juma congregation. A comfortable and spacious common room has been established in the academic block. This space has been designed to give female students a place to relax, offer prayers, study and have informal discussions in free time available. Daily newspapers, magazines and periodical journals are available for reading. Two well furnished cafeterias are responsible for catering meals, snacks, and beverages for the faculty, staff and students at reasonable rates. To provide first-aid and medical facilities to students and faculty members, a health center has been established near the girl’s hostel under the supervision of a qualified Resident Medical Officer. Playgrounds for hockey, football and basketball, lawn tennis, and volleyball have been developed and are being maintained to provide extracurricular activities to the enrolled students for grooming their personalities. A Gym club has been made functional for the students, which is running quite successfully. A mini shopping center is also available to facilitate the students and the residents living on campus. In the shopping center beside general store items, photocopying, printi9ng and computing services are also available. Internet connectivity is being provided to the students with an enhanced bandwidth up to 8 Mbps (CIR).