The Quaid-i-Azam University or Quaid-e-Azam University (Urdu: جامعہ قائداعظم‎; simply QAU) is a public research university located in Islamabad, Pakistan. Founded as the University of Islamabad in 1977, it was initially dedicated to the study of postgraduate education but expanded through the 1980s to an interdisciplinarity university offering both under and post graduate education. The university has, as of 2015, grown into the largest varsity in Islamabad with a total enrollment excedding 13,000 students. The university is located on a 1700 acres (or 6.9 km²) capmus on the foothills of the Margalla.