Owais Mughal
Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has recently released the university rankings of Pakistan. The rankings are generating so much interest that I am receiving four to five emails daily with people forwarding me the same link to HEC’s ranking web page. (Scroll down to see rankings and details).
I am kind of disappointed with my alma-mater, NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi, ranked at number 10 out of the 13 Engineering Universities of Pakistan. The photo to the right-below shows few views of NED University.
I genuinely and of course with a little bias think that NED university should have been ranked among the top 3. When I make such claim; I do it on the basis of sheer engineering talent I’ve personally seen at NED. But rankings do not take into account the student talent. They look at finances, faculty, number of students etc. My university mates as well as the university officials have already started the discussion on how to improve the rankings next year. This discussion is going on at many NED online alumni groups. I am sure similar discussions are going on within other university alumni too. This I think, is a positive sign of publishing a list like this as it does create competition.
Here are the key leaders in the ranking:
Agriculture / Veterinary
1. University of Agriculture (UAF), Faisalabad
2. NWFP University of Agriculture , Peshawar
3. University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi
4. Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam
Art / Design
1. National College of Arts, Lahore
2. Textile Institute of Pakistan, Karachi
3. Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi
Business / I.T.
1. Lahore Uni. of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore
2. Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi
3. Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Sci. & Tech. Karachi
4. Iqra University, Defence View, Karachi
5. Lahore School of Economics (LSE) , Lahore
6. Institute of Business Management (IBM), Karachi
Engineering
1. Pakistan Institute of Engg. and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
2. National University of Sciences & Technology Rawalpindi
3. Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering, Swabi
4. University of Engg. & Technology (UET), Lahore
5. Mehran University of Engg. & Technology (MUET), Jamshoro
6. University of Engg. & Technology (UET), Taxila
General
1. Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad
2. University of the Punjab, Lahore
3. University of Karachi, Karachi
4. University of Peshawar, Peshawar
5. Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
6. Government College Lahore University, Lahore
Health Sciences
1. Aga Khan University, Karachi
2. Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro
3. Baqai Medical University, Karachi
4. Zia-ud-din Medical University, Karachi
You can have a look at the complete rankings, including the scores, the criteria and the methodology of scoring here. I would like to hear your opinion.
ATP’s another post related to University Education and rankings system can be seen here.
haha there is no cota system in the universities you’ve mentioned because there is no such thing as a cota. its quota. and shouldnt there be a listing of universities in general? coz lums isnt just a business uni its social sciences department is just as strong. so what about that?
Aga Khan University is the top University in health science in my view.plz try to admited ur children in this university.it main tain marit
AOA,
My dear sir i want to say that where the F C College University fall in the Pakistan university ranking…….
where do islamic international university stands in the ranking??
where is Sukkur institute of Business administration, sukkur
this is the top institute in Business and IT in upper sindh
it is also upper than MUET QUEST and NED
this is the best institution.
Being an alumini, wish to see UET Lahore at the top. For me its not only the no of students graduating, grades, covered area, plothara of labs, no of campuses, discipline, weight of faculty/students to account for but, naturally biased, there are other important factors too like the statistics of the age of institution, general campus life, the self generated/organized extracurricular activities, canteen activities, attending university in self-study days, hilarity, life in hostles/dinings, sports, student bodies’ activities, the free student-faculty interaction etc, etc ….
IN MEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY AND IN LIAQUAT MEDICAL UNIVERSITY , IF THERE WILL NO COTA SYSTEM IN THEM THEN I FEEL THEY WILL BE THE FIRST UNIVERSITIES OF PAKISTAN.
GUARENTEED.
WHAT IS PIEAS AND AGHA KHAN. HUH
Thanks Owais, This is a guide for every student out there who is going to enter a university and doesn’t know yet which one is best for him/her.