Department of Botany:

Department of Botany is one of the leading department at South Punjab Institute of Science & Technology (SPIST), Dera Ghazi Khan. It is pioneer teaching and research department established simultaneously with the foundation of Institute. The Department offers BS program. The discipline of Botany deals with the course content of plant sciences and the utility of plants in relation to mankind and environment. The study of plants is important for several reasons and plants always remained a fundamental part of life on earth. They generate oxygen and provide shelter, food, fibers, fuel, and medicine. The main goal of the department at present is to impart quality education and inculcate the attitude of applied research in the minds of new entrants. In future, the department is going to introduce some more subject specific /skill-based courses which is the need of the hour, so that the students may get an opportunity to work in any part of the world and can compete with the students of any prestigious institution. By introducing such courses, the main aim of the department is to produce entrepreneurs out of the students, so that they may not become merely employees but employers. The graduates are absorbed in education, forest, agriculture, plant protection, PCSIR, ministry of environment and various NGO’s like WWF and IUCN.