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.
@ATP Administrator
Thank you for the clarification.
Five PU physicists shown the door: Plagiarism case
Lahore, Feb 23, 2008: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has compulsorily retired the former director and four faculty members of the Centre for High Energy Physics, Punjab University, after a probe body found them guilty in the plagiarism case.
“The director and the four faculty members of CHEP have knowingly indulged in plagiarism”, the two-member inquiry Committee stated in its report to the governor.
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The wrongdoing by CHEP’s five faculty members surfaced in 2006 when the then PU faculty of science dean Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, now PU vice-chancellor, filed a complaint that the CHEP faculty members had plagiarized international research papers.
http://www.interface.edu.pk/students/Feb-08/PU-GCU -Plagiarism.asp
Dear Ahmed Shahid,
No they still count as one click. On some posts some readers (never more than once per visit) will encounter an ad that you can skip by clicking at top-right button. However, these do NOT add to click.
Not that click counts really matter that much …. for techies here, we can tell you that the click counts are wrong for other technical reasons…. and they usually undercount (mostly when there is a rush of readers on a post, the counter for some reason stalls at a threshold…. just in case some folks worry about these things ;-)
@Owais Mughal
Everytime I click on this topic an ad comes up on my screen. I have to go back and click again. So probably it counts it as two clicks and not as one. Probably that is the reason behind such a high number of hits. Otherwise we can safely assume that the independent hits were just around 25,000.
This post has recently crossed the 50000 hits mark in roughly 16 months since it was published. It is also the first one to do so at ATP. This shows a big need of career counselling in Pakistan’s teenagers coming out of HSC. Looks like there is a genuine need of a ranking system where prospective students can compare the universities they are applying to.
I guess there can be two separate University ranking systems.
1. based on this existing criteria with some fine tuning
2. based on talent pool that they generate.
and I agree that (2) does not necessarily depend on ( 1), although it does help.
NED is a perfect example where they may not be ranked 1, but they do produce top talent and hence must be ranked 1 in this category.
They however need to improve on facilities, faculty, research and especially to bring their curriculum up to date.
University ranking? Does it matter one bit? How can any of them be called a university if there is no real research conducted at any of them?
Once more bringing forth the suggestion:
why critisize HEC for all this mess? Why dont we represent our own universities here? May be it wud be of some help to newcomers!