Seven Pakistani universities, based in Lahore and Islamabad, have made it to the QS World University Rankings 2019, the index of world’s top universities.
The top three universities this year are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and Harvard University respectively. The trio occupies the top three spots just as they had in 2018, followed by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the fourth spot. The only change in the top five sees University of Oxford (5th) overtaking the University of Cambridge, which has now been relegated to the sixth spot.
The top spot clenched by any Pakistani university was by the Islamabad-based Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), which occupies the 397th spot and is followed by NUST Islamabad, which is on the 417th spot.
Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) comes in next in the 551-560 bracket. The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) also made the list this year and is in the 701-750 bracket, whereas COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) — also located in Islamabad — has been ranked in the 751-800 group. Meanwhile, the University of Punjab and University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore are ranked in the 801-1000 group.