Chartered by the Government of Sindh, Iqra university was founded as Asian Management Institute (AMI) in 1998, by a group of Karachi-based industrialists.

Co-founder: Mrs. Erum Asad Vice Chancellor / President: Dr. Nassar Ikram Registrar: Mr. Aseem Majid Rizvi The university offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral studies programmes in engineering, film studies, management sciences, administration, and related social and natural sciences disciplines.

One of the greatest sources of secondary data is the Information Resource Centre, which keeps an up-to-date database of government publications related to the curriculum.

Latest figures from ISI Thompson shown that IQRA University has published more research papers than the other top business schools of Pakistan.

[5] In a meeting held on July 13, 2012, NCEAC-HEC (National Computing Education Accreditation Council of Higher Education Commission) has granted accreditation to the Computer Science Program of Iqra University for the batches graduating in the academic years 2008–12, 2009–13 and 2010–14.