The Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) of Islamabad ranked in top 100 in Asia according to the Global Education rankings for 2017.
The varsity has been listed at 95 among Asian universities. It’s the only university from Pakistan to be included in the ranking. However, the varsity had fallen 43 spots in rankings of the top 500 global varsities two years ago.
The ranking, by the US News and World Report, lists the varsity at 95 among Asian universities. QAU thus is the only university from Pakistan which has been included in the list of top Asian Universities in the ranking.
In global rankings, however, the varsity ranks at 539 with a global score of 49.1. This was down from 496 globally that US News and World Report had placed it on the 2015 rankings.
The regional rankings have been swept by East Asian countries especially with Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Singaporean universities making up the top 10 Asian universities.
University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore and Peking University were the top three Asian universities.
In global rankings, the only other Pakistani university which made it was the Aga Khan University of Karachi. It was ranked at 826 with a score of 39.6.
QAU Assistant Professor and an official spokesperson of the varsity, Dr Ilhan Niaz, explained that the overall score of the university had improved from 30 to 49.1.
Dr Niaz said that it shows a real improvement in the university.
“Despite all constraints the QAU faculty is delivering while other well-funded university with gigantic infrastructure seem to be nowhere in the ranking,” he added.
