The Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro (Sindhi: مهراڻ يونيورسٽي آف انجنيئرڱ اينڊ ٽيڪنالاجي) informally shortened as Mehran University (MUET) is the largest engineering degree-awarding institute in Pakistan. It is in the university town of Jamshoro in the Sindh province, along with the University of Sindh and Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences. The university was certified as having ISO 9000 Compliant Business processes. Mehran University has four faculties with 17 disciplines. To meet the demand for qualified engineers and other professionals and to provide an opportunity of education to the people hailing from the interior of Sindh Province, Sindh University Engineering College was established in 1963 as a constituent college of University of Sindh (then spelt 'Sind') in Jamshoro about 15 km from Hyderabad on the right bank of river Indus. The Education Policy of 1972 provided for up-gradation of the Sindh University Engineering College to the level of a University of Engineering and Technology.