The University of Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ يونيورسٽي) (Urdu: جامعه سندھ) informally known as Sindh University (abbreviated SU or USindh) is the second oldest university in Pakistan accredited by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. It functioned solely as an examining body from 1947 to 1951. However, when it moved from Karachi to Hyderabad in 1951, it started functioning as a full-fledged teaching university. The university currently has affiliations with four law colleges, and 74 degree and post-graduate colleges throughout Sindh. After the independence in 1947, the only functioning university in the newly founded nation of Pakistan was the University of Punjab providing services to the developed parts of the Punjab province. The area constituted as the Sindh province came under the academic coverage of University of Bombay which had now become a part of India. A formal academic centre was therefore needed for Sindh and under the constitutional act no. XVII titled 'University of Sindh', a resolution was passed by the Legislative Assembly of Sindh thus giving birth to this new university in the nation's capital of Karachi.