Hazara University is located in Dhodial

Dhodial

Dhodial is a town and union council located near Baffa between Mansehra and Shinkiari in Mansehra District in Hazara province of Pakistan. The town was badly affected by the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.- Location:...

 town, Mansehra District

Mansehra District

Mansehra District is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, an area still unofficially known as the Northwest Frontier. Mansehra district and town are named after Man Singh, a leading general of Mughal Emperor Akbar...

, Hazara in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. The town of Dhodial is located near to the city of Mansehra

Mansehra

Mansehra city is located at in Mansehra District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is very near to Abbottabad city. It is a major stop for tourists on the Karakoram Highway which leads to China...

(the capital city of the district). It was formed in the building and land of Government Mental and General Hospital Dhodial. Hazara University has three faculties: the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Health Sciences.

The university was founded in 2002; Hazara University started its operations with meagre resources of one small building for academics and a small administration block.
Initially Departments of Information Technology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Education, English, Islamiyat, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Management, Journalism and Mass Communication, Disaster and Rehabilitation Management, Botany, Genetics, Environment Sciences, Economics, Health and Physical Education, Arts and Designing, Political Sciences, Physics, Mathematics Law, and Department of Management Sciences started operations. Further Havelian Campus is also working. The university is currently ranked at No. 16 in general category of HEC rankings.