QS Ranking and Performance of Pakistan
The
famous QS ranking has published it new edition of QS raking of Asia division.
As far as performances are concerned, some of the public sector universities
have lost their ranking while some private institutions have risen in their
position. However, we don’t have anything to proud on as there is no Pakistani
university in top 100 universities of Asia.
Symonds
(QS) published its 2016 Asia ranking and according to it, Pakistan leading university
is Lahore university of management sciences with Asia ranking of 111th.
In this edition of ranking, it moves ahead from four Pakistani university that
were ahead of it in last edition.
The
ranking has been expanded this year to include the 350 best universities for
the Asian region.
The
National University of Singapore bagged the first position in the ranking.
The
rise of LUMS is due to the improvement is seven out of 9 metrics used by the QS
in their rankings while the national university of science and technology is the
second leading institution of the country with 112th position in
Asian region. NUST rose 7 points as compared to last ranking.
The
Quaid e Azam University has fallen from 116th position to 149th
which is a major setback for the country and for the university and all the
reason have to be analyzed for this set back.
Last
time, the Pakistan institutes of engineering and applied science was the
country’s leading institution in the ranking which now has been gone down to
149th position from 116th one.
The
Agha Khan University also lost its credibility when it comes to the ranking and
falls from 117th position to 183rd.
The
University of Karachi has taken a rise from the band of 251-300 to the 201-210.
Total
10 Pakistani universities took place in the 350 best institutions ranking of
Asia.
Apart
from National university of Singapore, the other the top positions have been
given the University of Hong Kong which is 2nd while the third one is Nanyang technological university.
However,
South Korea amazed the world with its 6 institutes in top 20. 17 nations have
at least one spot on the ranking while the QS analyzed 517 institutes from Asia
for the ranking.
In
this edition of ranking, the QS also took into account the PHD staff in the
analyses of teaching quality of university.
Although
most the methodology is same as of QS world ranking, however, for Asia some
additional parameters have been used.
