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.
dear Yahya,visit following 2 links
NED Clarfication
Lower Expectations
p.s: Adil bhai why doesn’t preview of the post doesn’t work anymore? please enable it.
[quote comment=”3795″]Indeed, it is a surprise to see that NED and Dow are not ranked better. Either the standard has really collapsed or there is something weird about the survey.
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Again the question is not if NED and Dow good but where they stand compared to other institutions.
Indeed, it is a surprise to see that NED and Dow are not ranked better. Either the standard has really collapsed or there is something weird about the survey.
Nevertheless, I think it’s important to see things in a wider perspective. Ranking universities in Pakistan helps no one – not the students for sure given how the admission system for state-owned universities work.
The Times Higher Education Survey published this week shows no Pakistani universities in the world’s top 200 – and only a handful from South Asia.
The only from South Asia are the Indian Institute Of Technology – ranked 50th in the world and 14th in universities ex-US and Europe. The Indian Institute of Management ranks 24th in the world and 84th overall.
The IIT is also ranked 36th among the world’s top science universities and THIRD among top global technology universities (IIM is 69th in this catagory).
Among the world’s top non-university science and technology institutions – none from South Asia, or Asia overall for that matter.
World’s top arts and humanities universities: None from Pakistan; Calcutta University (39th), Delhi University (87). For perspective, the elite Beijing University is the top Asian school, ranked 6th behind Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley and Yale.
Social sciences: Surprise! Surprise! Something called the Lahore University (I presume LUMS???) flies the flag – at No. 61. India has four. Top Asian – National University of Singapore at 13.
Perspective.
HJ
[quote post=”341″]of their fellow Pakistani students in UK are from Karachi.[/quote]
Not the case in the US.
[quote post=”341″]How do you come to the conclusion on the literacy rate? I suppose Islamabad should be the highest.[/quote]
From the number of Universities and Colleges in the city. But boy I was wrong. Yes, indeed it is Islamabad and then Rwalpindi and Karachi is in third place.
[quote comment=”3778″]Since you guys are talking about NED. Can I ask a question why not many NEDians make their way to foreign universities in the west? Pakistan is sending most students from Punjab and Islamabad. Last I heard Karachi still holds top most position in literacy rate then why we are not seeing that representation in the west. I hope its not low standard of education…[/quote]
My two nephews who came to UK after graduating from UET Lahore say all (I guess they mean most) of their fellow Pakistani students in UK are from Karachi. So I guess some are definitely coming to west.
How do you come to the conclusion on the literacy rate? I suppose Islamabad should be the highest.