The Higher Education Commission (HEC) released the “Quality & Research-based Ranking 2013″ for Pakistani universities.
HEC chairman Javaid Laghari said the rankings
were based on a criteria that relied on feedback from universities and
international rankings models.
“These rankings are supposed to be a mirror –
they let the universities know their strengths and weaknesses,” he said.
In a press conference, the HEC detailed that
the rankings are divided into four discipline-based and three-enrollment-based
categories.
LUMS on top
Lahore University of Management Sciences
(LUMS) emerged as the highest-ranked university in the category of “Business
Education”.
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied
Science (PIEAS), on the other hand, was declared to be the best university in
the “Engineering & Technology” category.
University of Agriculture and Aga Khan
University were accorded the highest rank in the respective disciplines of
“Agriculture/Veterinary” and “Medicine”.
For the “General Universities” category, three
sub-categories were made according to the enrollment size of universities.
Universities with a student body strength of
over 7,000 were put in the large sub-category, universities which had 3,000 to
7,000 students were put in the medium sub-category, while universities which
had less than 3000 students were categorized as small.
NUST ranks high
National University of Sciences &
Technology (NUST), Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad and University of
Faislabad were ranked highest in the large, medium and small “General
Universities” category respectively.
“For the 2013 HEC rankings, each university
has been named only once in the rankings,” Laghari explained.
He said the universities themselves chose
which category they wanted to be considered for.
For instance, NUST opted to be categorized in
the general category instead of the “Engineering & Technology” category.
The HEC rankings were based on the
implementation status of quality assurance, teaching quality and research
produced at the universities in the year 2011-12.
Even though HEC research grants, HEC travel
grants and HEC approved PhD supervisors were included in the ranking criteria
for research, Laghari asserted that the rankings were conducted objectively.
Vice Chancellors present at the press
conference urged the HEC to consider the services of an independent,
third-party organization for ranking in the future.
Laghari replied in the affirmative and said
that HEC is going to seek the services of an independent body to ascertain
university rankings for the next year.
No overall list
The HEC did not release an overall list of
university rankings.
HEC Chairman said that it was too difficult to
equalize data in different categories to arrive at a consolidated list.
Following is a list of universities according
to their ranking in the various categories as released by HEC:
Agriculture
1.
University of
Agriculture – Faisalabad
2.
Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid
Agriculture University – Rawalpindi
3.
University of
Veterinary & Animal Sciences – Lahore
4.
The University of
Agriculture – Peshawar
5.
Sindh Agriculture
University – Tandojam
Business Education
1.
LUMS, Lahore
2.
IBA, Karachi
3.
Sukkur Institute of
Business Administration, Sukkur
4.
SZABIST, Karachi
5.
Institute of
Management Science – Peshawar
Engineering and Technology
1.
Pakistan Institute of
Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad
2.
UET, Lahore
3.
GIKI, Topi
4.
Mehran University of
Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro
5.
Institute of Space
Technology, Islamabad
Medical
1.
Aga Khan University,
Karachi
2.
University of Health
Sciences, Lahore
3.
DOW University of
Health Scienes, Karachi
4.
Liaquat University of
Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro
5.
Khyber Medical
University, Peshawar
General Universities (Large)
1.
NUST, Islamabad
2.
University of Punjab,
Lahore
3.
University of Karachi,
Karachi
4.
COMSATS Institute of
Information Technology, Islamabad
5.
Government College
University, Faisalabad
1.
QAU, Islamabad
2.
Government College
University, Lahore
3.
FAST-NUCES, Islamabad
4.
Fatima Jinnah Women
University, Rawalpindi
5.
Gomal University, D I
Khan
General Universities (Small)
1.
The University of
Faisalabad, Faisalabad
2.
Beaconhouse National
University, Lahore
3.
Pakistan Institute of
Development Economics, Islamabad
4.
University of Science
& Technology, Bannu
5.
Isra University,
Hyderabad
Very Popular university Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad
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