Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar is the First Public Sector Women University in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Frontier Women University Bill, 2004 having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of North-West Frontier Province on the 5th October. 2004 and assented to by the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province on 7th February, 2005.

The University provides an environment which enables students to develop their academic, moral, physical, professional and spiritual potential. Envisaged initially as a caterer to the education of female population of the Province, the University has earned much more than it had initially conceived. The primary objective of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar is to accomplish the assigned mission of providing quality education to the female students in accordance with the latest syllabi and modern trends so that it can emerge as the leading public sector female university of the country.