Department of Chemistry, founded in 1953 has the distinction of being the very first department under the then Faculty of Science established at the Elsa Kazi Campus of the University in Hyderabad. The department was shifted to Allama I.I. Kazi Campus, Jamshoro in 1961. The status of the department was raised to that of the Institute of Chemistry in 1967. The Institute was named as Dr. M.A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry in 1999 after the name of its founder Chairman & Director (Late) Prof. Dr. Mumtaz Ali Kazi.
The Institute has been offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral research programs in Analytical, Organic, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry. Since its inception the Institute has catered to the human resources requirements of the country in general and the region in particular. The graduates of this Institute are holding key posts in the country as well as abroad.