12 Pakistani Universities Included in Times Top 500 List for 2020

Times Higher Education (THE) has included 12 Pakistani universities in its Top 500 Emerging Economies University Rankings for 2020.

Only one institution from Pakistan has made it to the Top 100, as Times has placed Quaid-e-Azam University at 85th place. It includes institutions from countries that the London Stock Exchange categorizes as advanced emerging, secondary emerging, or frontier.

Rankings are compiled based on the following metrics:

Citations
Industry income
International outlook
Research
Teaching
No of students
No of Students per staff
No of international students
Female to Male ratio

Here is the complete list of the Pakistani universities ranked in the top 500.

University	Rank
Quaid-e-Azam University	85
COMSATS University Islamabad	159
International Islamic University	201-250
University of Agriculture Faisalabad	251-300
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)	251-300
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)	251-300
University of Punjab	301-350
University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore	351-400
University of Peshawar	351-400
Bahauddin Zakariya University	401-500
PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi	401-500
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore	401-500

Besides, Government College University Lahore and the University of Sargodha have made their way in the list of Top 500-1000 Emerging Economies University Rankings.

Find out more about the Times Top 500 Emerging Economies University Rankings here.

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Haroon Hayder

Pakistani universities, especially the public sector ones continue to fudge these rankings. The research criteria means nothing in Pakistan, they continue to publish bogus research that has zero impact and is probably never read again by anyone once approved and published by some local journal.