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 receivng 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’ve 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 studetns 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.
“NUST doesn’t have that many PhDs yet it is quite high on the ranking. It receives a dispropotionate amount of funds from the military, ministry of defence and ministry of finance. Other universities should be provided similar amount of funding”
NUST might not have enough PhDs yet the no still exceeds many other universities. Disproportionate amount of funds. Well actually NUST so far is using military institutes, the facilities already exist for the training of the militiary engineers and doctors. Otherwise the amount of resources available to UET are not quite less. They have government funding in literally all the areas. NUST constituent colleges on the other hand even don’t have proper transport facilities etc.
Fundings from ministry of defence. Well most of the funding from the defence related institutes are utilized for R&D purposes. Many ppl might not be aware of the fact that several ongoing military projects of defence related institutes like KRL, PMO etc have useful contributions from NUST undergradutate and graduate level researchers. For instance the first UAV of Pakistan will be having its auto pilot system developed by students of EME college. This is just a simple example. There are several ongoing projects which have funding in millions of rupees.
This all funding is bestowed onto NUST primarily because of its military basis, yeah true, secrecy is prime issue. Students are discouraged to publish their research in military related projects. The second reason being that the R&D engineers of NUST have gained the trust of these defence related organisations only throught their consistent performance. I think other universities can make sincere efforts in this regard too except for lamenting the disprortionate availability of funds.
dawood college of engineering and technology
is a fine institution
i m very upset as HEC excluded it in a very tight manner
It is honorable for me that I was/am part of top ranking university.
Quadian Once
Quadian forever
all the words are small infornt of mehranian and mehran university……
no one can not get the place of it
hope fully it will be the best among all universities in 2008
NUST doesn’t have that many PhDs yet it is quite high on the ranking. It receives a dispropotionate amount of funds from the military, ministry of defence and ministry of finance. Other universities should be provided similar amount of funding.
PIEAS was originally just the educational arm of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. Thus it received a lot of funding and man power from PAEC. No wonder its also high on the list.
Other universities are competing on an un-level playing field. Thus ranking of universities must also take into account these factors.
What gives an edge to PIEAS over the rest is the no of Phd faculty and the no of publications. Uet certainly lags behind in both!
i am surprise to see pieas university at the top of engineering institutes the university which should be at the top is uet taxila wow what a university in every department in girls in faculty so better be change it or else remove the rating list u dont know me…….
UET Lahore should be at top in Engineering universities considering the Faculty, Services provided to community as compared to the dues & funding in which they are managing everything. The Cream of nation goes here and have a survey of top professional organizations. MOST OF THE TOP POSITIONS ARE HELD BY UETIANS……
UETIANS ARE SERVING THE NATION IN REAL SENSE….