NUST among top 150 universities in the world

The National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad has made it to the list of 150 Under 50 Rankings 2016.

The results released in April by Times Higher Education (THE) rank the Pakistani university at 101.

The Times Higher Education 150 Under 50 Rankings 2016 is a ranking of the top 150 universities under 50 years old. It celebrates young universities that have made a great impact on the global stage in years rather than centuries and showcases the future rising university stars, according to its website.

Universities are measured according to their teaching, research, citations, international outlook and knowledge transfer.

THE also released a World Reputation Rankings 2016 list on May 4, but Pakistani universities failed to make it to the list.

However, World University Rankings 2015-2016 released in September 2015 placed two Pakistani universities Quaid-i-Azam University and National University of Sciences and Technology at 501 and 601 respectively out of a total of 800 universities worldwide.

Here are the top 10 best young universities in the world:

1. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
3. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
4. Maastricht University, Netherlands
5. Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
6. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
7. University of Konstanz, Germany
8. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
9. Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
10. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

Here are the top 10 universities that made it to the World Reputation Rankings 2016:

1. Harvard University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Stanford University
4. University of Cambridge
5. University of Oxford
6. University of California, Berkeley
7. Princeton University
8. Yale University
9. Columbia University
10. California Institute of Technology