7 Pakistani universities make their place In Times Higher Education Ranking

London: Pakistan has improved its representation in the list of best universities of Asia along with 7 Pakistani educational institutes in top 300 universities.

The best Asian universities ranking list 2017 issued by Times Higher Education shows that Pakistan has 7 educational institutes in top 300, five of which are new entries. The highest-ranking educational institute of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, ranked at 121-130 and is joined by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in the top 150 varsities.

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National University of Science and Technology (NUST) is ranked at 141-150.

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UOAF) is ranked 201-250.

While the other two universities, University of Lahore and University of Karachi are at 250+ positions.

As per the issued ranking list, for the second year consecutively, National University of Singapore and Peking University of China ranked first and second respectively.

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On the success of Pakistan Phil Baty, the editor of Times Higher Education rankings, said:

“It is really good news that Pakistan has really improved its representation in the list of 2017 of best universities in Asia, by taking 7 places, up from two last year.

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology is the only new entry to make its place in top 200.

“Though, the two well-known Pakistani varsities have dropped their places, in spite of the fact that their overall scores had not declined since last year; Quaid-i-azam University drops from 101-110 to 121-130, whereas the National University of Sciences and Technology drops from 121-130 to 151-160.

Their drop is because of the other top leading Asian universities improving at a faster speed and increased competition in the list; the Times Higher Education ranking now includes 300 universities, more than 200 of last year.

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According to the date from World Bank, “Higher education registration in Pakistan has increased a lot (from 280,000 aspirants in 2002 to 1.3 million today), and 47% of these are women (as compared to the 36% 10 years ago), according to data from the World Bank.

However, just 10 percent of the university-age population of the university goes there, which is much lower as compared to the equivalent figures in India and Sri Lanka.

Overall on the South Asian region, Phil Baty said that:

“India is the higher education star of South Asian zone, taking almost 33 places in the ranking list of this year, which is more than double its representation of last year.

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It’s mean that now India is the third most-represented nation in the list for the first time.

He furthermore added that Pakistan has also made great gains, beyond tripling its representation since last year, from 2 to 7, whereas Sri Lanka makes its first appearance along with University of Colombo making the 251+ band. 

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