QAU ranked 106th among best Asian universities

ISLAMABAD:

The Quaid-i-Azam University’s (QAU) excellence in research and teaching has placed it at the 106th spot among the best Asian universities, according to the recently announced prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings.

The varsity has strengthened and improved its international position by moving up by five places from its last year’s ranking based on the quality of teaching, reputation and increase in academic citations.

QAU has achieved 43.24 points in the overall score, while 94.09 in paper per faculty, 88.59 in international research network, and 80.81 in citation per paper. QS has already ranked QAU at 454th among the top 500 universities of the world.

Prof Dr Muhammad Ali, vice chancellor of the Quaid-i-Azam University, congratulated the faculty staff and students for achieving another milestone.

In his message, he said the continuous improvement in QAU's ranking for the last two years reflects "our resolve to be Pakistan's top-ranked university and to excel among the best universities in global rankings".

The university has already ranked 67th in the Golden Age university rankings, and 75th among leading universities of Asia by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Earlier, the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) was included in the top 100 universities of Asia in the latest rankings issued by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

The rankings showed that as many 45 Pakistani universities made it on to the list of 634 Asian universities on Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings for 2021.

NUST has been ranked at 76 in the rankings and is the only Pakistani varsity to make it to the top 100 list. Another 30 made it to the top 600 in Asia.