The establishment and history of CIIT Abbottabad campus, is as unique as is the success story of the campus in its academic performance and growth in the field of impartation of quality education to not only the deprived youth of the remote Northern areas, but also to the knowledge thirsty of the entire country. Establishment of an IT Institution in Abbottabad was a visionary challenge of Dr. Atta
-ur-Rehman, the then Minister of Science and Technology. COMSATS came forward to accept this challenge as an opportunity, which was converted in to reality by Dr. Haroon Rashid, the then Director of the Campus. Pervez Musharaf, the then President of Pakistan did the greatest service to the cause of education by offering 300 kanals of land at Tobe camp for establishing an IT Institute, which was graciously transferred by Pakistan Military and gratefully accepted by CIIT.
