QS university rankings 2026 released: No Pakistani university among top 350 universities

KARACHI: The global university ranking organisation QS (QS) has released the 2026 ranking of universities around the world.

According to the ranking, not a single university in Pakistan could make it to the top 350 universities in the world, but two federal universities, Quaid-e-Azam University (354) and National University of Science and Technology (NUST), have succeeded in making it to the top 371, while the country’s largest university, the University of Karachi, has managed to make it to the top 1,001 universities, but no other university from Sindh has been able to make it to the top 1,500 universities.

Among the top 10 universities in the world, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranked first, Imperial College London (UK) ranked second, Stanford University (US) ranked third, University of Oxford (UK) ranked fourth, Harvard University (US) ranked fifth, Cambridge University (UK) ranked sixth, ETH Zurich (SZ) ranked seventh, National University of Singapore (SZ) ranked eighth, UCL London (UCL) ranked ninth and California Institute of Technology (US) ranked tenth.

Other notable Pakistani universities in the rankings include Punjab University (542), Lahore University of Management Sciences (555), and University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (654).

COMSATS University, Islamabad 664, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences 721, UET Lahore 801, University of Peshawar, 901, Lahore University 951, Aga Khan University and Univer