Universities play a vital role in the building professional career of an individual. It allows you to develop proficiencies and gather knowledge that helps you in almost all aspects of life. However, there is a difference in the quality of the education that each university offers. Even if we only talk about Asia, there are thousands of universities spanning from Turkey to Japan. There are different bodies that rank these universities on the basis of quality of education and one such institution is Times Higher Education (THE). Recently, the institution has published the 11th edition of THE’s (Times Higher Education) Asia University Rankings. A total of 669 universities were ranked from 31 Asian countries. Impressively, ten universities from Pakistan were ranked in the top 200 list while a total of 29 universities were ranked in overall rankings.
Let’s take a look at the top 10 universities of Pakistan that came into the top 200 rankings in THE’s Asia University Rankings 2023.
| UNIVERSITY | RANKING |
|---|---|
| Quaid-i-Azam University | 98 |
| University of Management and Technology | 116 |
| Government College University Faisalabad | 136 |
| University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila | 142 |
| Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan | 149 |
| COMSATS University Islamabad | 174 |
| International Islamic University, Islamabad | 177 |
| Hazara University Mansehra | 181 |
| University of Malakand | 186 |
| Riphah International University | 196 |
Furthermore, it is pertinent to mention here that the majority of the varsities in THE ranking come from Japan that was followed by China, India, Iran & Turkey. I’m sure that you might be curious about the top 10 universities in the overall rankings. So, let’s take a look at the top 10 universities of Asia ranked by Times Higher Education.
| RANKING | UNIVERSITY NAME | COUNTRY |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 2 | Peking University | China |
| 3 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 4 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 5 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Singapore |
| 6 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 7 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 8 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 9 | Fudan University | China |
| 10 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
