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NUST improves its QS ranking

By our correspondents
July 27, 2017

Islamabad

National University of Sciences and Technology has achieved another milestone by attaining a position in 500 world top universities announced by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), UK. NUST is now ranked as 437th in the world, 91 places higher than its previous world universities rankings.

NUST has also improved its ranking from 74 to 61 in QS ranking category “Top 50 under 50” announced on 13th July, 2017. This category allows some of the world’s top young universities to shine, rewarding those universities who have a great performance in teaching and research which have established themselves in the world rankings in a short space of time.

NUST also features amongst the world’s elite institutions in 4 of the 46 subjects area in this year’s QS World University Rankings by subject. NUST stands at 270 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 273 in the field of Computer Science and Information Systems, 367 in the field of Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering and 472 in the field of Physics and Astronomy.