The Institute became an autonomous university in 1956.

Around the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, some of them developed into autonomous universities.

In 1896 a law was passed creating seventeen autonomous regional universities financed mainly by the state.

Several private autonomous universities have been open since 2002.

It became an autonomous university in 1974.

It was granted its charter in 1983 as Pakistan's first private, autonomous university.

The college became an autonomous university in 2009.

On 5 November 1972 it was recognized as an autonomous university.

It is an autonomous university and conducts it's own admission test.

Historically the chancellor's duty was to function as the official representative of the monarch in the autonomous university.