Rankings show priorities

The writer is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives and an associate professor of economics at Lums. Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x comments Join our Whatsapp Channel Add Dawn as a trusted source THE recently revealed QS World Universities Rankings 2027 have become a topic of considerable conversation for Pakistani social and print media. Reports and posts on the subject have mainly pointed out that no Pakistani university has been ranked among the world’s top 350 universities. The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), at 381, is our top entry in the QS rankings. However, we should remember that a number of individual programmes — though not the overall university position — are ranked much higher. Nust, the University of Engineering & Technology and the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute have engineering programmes ranked in the 100-200 range; Lums and IBA have similar rankings for economics, business and social science programmes; AKU is ranked high for medicine programmes.