‘UAF best varsity in research area’

FAISALABAD: The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, has emerged as the best university in the area of research in Pakistan as per the Times Higher Education Brics and Emerging Economies Ranking 2017.

It was revealed by UAF Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan while addressing the deans committee here on Saturday.

The UAF secured 203 positions worldwide and fourth in Pakistan in the overall ranking in which universities from more than 50 countries were taken for evaluation, he told.

The UAF VC said that in the area of research under the said ranking, the UAF had bagged 12.2 points whereas the Bahauddin Zakariya University got 10.1 points and the University of Karachi stood third with 8.3 points.

In the overall ranking in Pakistan, the Quaid-e-Azam University got the first position with 24.2 points, Comsats second with 23.7 points, National University of Sciences and Technology 22.4 points and University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 17.3-19.8 points whereas Bahauddin Zakariya University, University of Karachi and the University of Lahore bagged 13.7-17.2 points, he disclosed.

He said that in the National Taiwan University ranking, the varsity emerged 72nd in the world in the agricultural sciences and 12th in Asia Pacific.

The QS ranking had also placed the UAF as 86th best university of the globe, he maintained.

He added that no other university of the country had distinction of finding place in the top 100 universities in any category.

The Times Higher Education World University rankings 2016-2017 list the 980 top universities in the world, he said. It was the global university performance table to judge world class universities across all of their core missions, teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook, he added.

The top universities rankings use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which were trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and government, he added.