The University of Peshawar (or UOP) was established in October 1950 by the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. The University of Peshawar is an institution where educational facilities exist from nursery to Ph.D. Located in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, it operates as a residential campus spread over 1,000 acres (4 km). The University of Peshawar is ranked as the 4th Best General Purpose University by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). The university comprises six faculties with forty postgraduate departments, four centres, two centres of excellence, four colleges and three high schools. Student population on campus is over 20,000. In its inaugural year it had an enrollment of 129, of whom one was a female. Although the university was established in 1950 it was initially Islamia College. The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who had visited the college in 1928 had great admiration for it. He would refer to it as ‘My College’ and adopted it as one of the three heirs to his fortune, along with Aligarh University and Sindh Madrassa (his own school) in 1939.