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.
salm dis iz arsalan 4m bahrain i suffered a lot in finding besty universities in karachi as i was unaware of the of degree recognition of universities and its value after finishing for jobs but then i finally appplied in 2 best universities of karachi i.e NED and Sir Syed university of engineering and technolofy and hope fully i got admission in sir syed uni buty can any body tell me if i can transfer to some other uni my email id is
Khanzscope_2c@hotmail.com
03062221161
right now im in bahrain spending holidays with my parents i will reach karachi by 4th of july i have completed all my studies in Kingdom Of bahrain in middle East
[quote comment=”52015″]hi
nust institute of information tech. was established in 1999.and in short time this institute gain good reputation in it and coom. sector.and at this time it is collaborating
with stanford caltech and other top ranked univ. in world.
and companies like cern microsoft intel ibm linux.and graduates from this institutes are in high demand of international markete.and almost 70% students are selected by international companies.so that is why nust is above giki.[/quote]
Well NIIT is over rated. Back in 2004 or 2005 I was part of the academic audit team of NUST and we looked at all the courses offered by NIIT in detail. The courses offered by NIIT were far inferior to offered by MCS and most of the students who really did some work there were from MCS, NIIT students not being capable of contributig in any meaningful way, thanks to the law quality of NIIT students.
Most of these “high quality” students come from the Computer Science department of MCS but the quality of these students has deteriorated over the years for many reasons.
Quality faculty has left MCS. The merit for Computer Science (Software Engineering) has gone down due to student’s preferance for Telecom. Courses at MCS are not being updated and geared towards the market needs.
Dear Usman
Among the universities and choices you have listed , I will recommend you to go for BBA at NUST.
here iam Usman Ahmed from qta,, i want to know the recogonation of UET Kushzdar,& BUITMS & IQRA UNivesity in BAlochistan qta,, which one is better one either UET KUSZDAR BE or BUITMS BS or NUST BBA or IQRA University BBA…. ..
iam SOOOOO HUrdle………
that i got admission in Alot of universities in Pakistan….(islamabad, lahore)..BUT yet now.. here i also got admission In …..1.BBA In NUST, 2.BBA IN IQRA UNIVERSITY QUETTA, 3.BS.TELECOM BUITMS 4.BE ELECRTICAL UET KUSZDAR…………..which one i’ll join it…..either BBA, BS or BE has alot of scope or ACCA or CA has alot of Scope….which DISCLIPINE I”LL JOIN it..which one is better 4 mee??…….
USMAN AHMED
usmanahmedqta@hotmail.com
03003817589 :D
hi
nust institute of information tech. was established in 1999.and in short time this institute gain good reputation in it and coom. sector.and at this time it is collaborating
with stanford caltech and other top ranked univ. in world.
and companies like cern microsoft intel ibm linux.and graduates from this institutes are in high demand of international markete.and almost 70% students are selected by international companies.so that is why nust is above giki.