During its first year of operation, it offered admissions to women in the fields of education, computer science and Islamic studies.
These include Prof. Tayyeb Gulzar Khan (president), Dr. Anis Ahmad (vice chancellor of Riphah International University), Dr. Inamur Rahman (founder and professor emeritus of PIEAS), Prof. Kazi Zulkader Siddiqui (first head of the Department of Islamic Studies at WISH), Dr. Khalid Alavi (scholar of Islamic Studies), Dr. Ilyas Ahmad (educationist), Dr. M. A. Qazi (director) and Dr. Zahid Hussain (head of the Department of Science Education), Dr. Mustafeez Alvi (Head of the Department of Islamic Studies).
WISH offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in the following disciplines: The library provides research facilities to the students, housing 10,000 hardbound volumes, 90,000 volumes in digital format, over 18,000 full text journals, nearly 10 million articles and 6 million reference resources.
The students living on-campus have a shop to buy articles of daily need.
The students participate in inter-departmental games and competitions organized by the Riphah International University and other civic agencies in the city of Islamabad.
Some of the key speakers invited to sessions of the forum included Farhat Mazari (former political advisor to the prime minister), Muhammad Khan Minhas, Dr. Omer Bajwa from USA, Dr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari (director general of the Islamic Research Institute, IIUI), Sohail Umer (director Iqbal Academy Lahore), and Dr. Anis Ahmad (vice chancellor, Riphah International University).