University of Health Sciences is located in Lahore, which is the second largest city of Pakistan and the capital of the Province of Punjab. Lahore, is the city of 8 million, and also the educational seat of Pakistan. University of Health Sciences, Lahore regulates and coordinates the activities of medical education, training & research institutions throughout the province of Punjab. University of Health Sciences is the only institution offering specialization in medical, dental, nursing, bio-medical engineering and paramedical education in the province of Punjab. The University is the parent body to 28 Medical & Dental Colleges, 07 Institutes of post graduate education, 20 Allied Health Sciences and 05 post graduate Nursing Colleges, located in different cities of the province of Punjab.

The mission of University of Health Sciences is to revolutionize medical education and health research. It also aims to develop an intellectual nexus to provide excellence and innovation in medical education and research for continued development of clinically competent and community oriented doctors, dentists, nurses and paramedics. The University of Health Sciences has high fidelity, reliability and standards of examinations, is rapidly developing into a center for post graduate training and research, in the fields of basic sciences. A unique feature of the University is the development of the departments of Bio-Medical Engineering and a Resource Laboratory for active research in Molecular Biology.