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.
hello iam zara from karachi iam doing mechanical engineering from NADIR SHAW EDULJI DINSHAW UNIVERSITY. iam very surprized that NEDis not in top five . i think these ranking must rejudge and imust that ned is better from all these jamshoro all that
Asalamoalikum to all Muslims And Pakistani In this world
I want say that in many universities programe of Engg going on but there courses are much differ from each other
And now i m Studing in @@@@@@@@@@@@@” Muhammad Ali Jinnah University Islamabad ” with respect to studies this is one of the best university of pakistan because they train a student to go through any problem in their life@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ but i feel very ashammed when i saw on its Building
i Requested to HEC and PEC that they don’t give permission to open universities in PLzas.
My dear fellows Aoa……….
We should work hard for the btterment of this country that it get success like amirica.
long live pakistan and pakistani.
thanks alot.
This post gets the silliest comments possible.
First, can people please READ the actual post before commenting. That will really save everyone’s time from your asking silly questions already answered in the post (such as who did this, or why, or what criteria was used).
Second, just because you went to a university does not make it a good university. In some cases that would only make it a bad university! This is a RANKING. It is not about what you think it is about how a university PERFORMS on some criteria.
Judging by the comments the ranking of some of these institutions should go DOWN just based on how dumb some of these comments are!
you should give a ranking of all the universities put together
and you guys havnt even mentioned KEMU its one of the best in pakistan