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Pakistan’s AKU and PINSTECH among Muslim world’s tip 20 ‘specialised institutions’
- Updated: May 8, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz University surfaced a list with a 10.82 score, with a Harvard University, US set as a benchmark with a 100 score. PHOTO: Express/File
Pakistan’s Aga Khan University (AKU) and Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) have been ranked among a tip 20 ‘specialised institutions’ difficulty in a Muslim world.
The Information Technology University Quality Research Ranking [ITU-QRR] , that provides information and analytics on over 450 universities from over 30 Muslim countries around a universe to “benchmark investigate performance”, has published a investigate for a year 2017 in sequence to assistance aloft preparation policymakers as good as yield information to a systematic community.
Method
The ITU rankings are supposing in dual ways – by specific theme areas and a altogether university rankings. The concentration is on “key peculiarity dimension of investigate performance, thus, a publications in tip peculiarity venues are deliberate to rate universities and institutes”.
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Subject areas are organized in dual categories, with 15 level-one categories and 250 level-two categories. Ranking can be carried out in any turn or difficulty while a formula uncover a “total announcement outlay during 2010-2015 and their suit in tip peculiarity venues”.
In sequence to establish a altogether ranking a magnitude was taken of a “comprehensiveness of investigate strengths opposite all theme categories”.
Rankings
Pakistan seemed in a tip 20 ‘specialised institutions’ category, led by a AKU that ranked 6 with a 3.48 score, followed by a PINSTECH creation it to the 13th container with a magnitude of 2.46.
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However, usually 12 universities from Pakistan were partial of a ‘broad institutions category’ list, with a Quaid-e-Azam university on tip among a 12 with a magnitude of 3.21, followed by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (2.83) and a University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (1.89). The Islamia University was during a bottom of a list with a magnitude of 0.42.
More than 50 per cent of a tip 20 universities opposite a Muslim universe were formed in Iran (seven) and Turkey (seven) and three were from Saudi Arabia, dual from Malaysia and one from Egypt. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz University surfaced a list with a 10.82 score, with a Harvard University, US set as a benchmark with a 100 score.