Ranking
During the last 15 years, CUI has witnessed a phenomenal growth to an extent that
it would perhaps not be out of place to say that CUI has been one of the fastest
growing educational University of the decade. All through these years, various external
bodies have evaluated CUI and the quality of its programs, based on very stringent
quality and professional standards. The most important independent entities and
regulatory bodies evaluating CUI and its programs are the Higher Education Commission
(HEC), the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), National Computing Education Accreditation
Council (NCEAC), and the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge.
It is a matter of pride for the CUI that it has been able to record remarkable achievements
in terms of ranking of its Engineering degree programs as well as research productivity
of the faCUIlty members.
The various rankings, year wise are listed below for the interest of CUI stakeholders.
2016
In February 2016, University Rankings for the year 2015 were announced by HEC. CUI
has been ranked at No.3 in the General Category, and at No. 6 in overall universities
within Pakistan as ranked by HEC.
The details are available at:
http://hec.gov.pk/InsideHEC/Divisions/QALI/Others/RankingofUniversities/DoCUIments/Ranking_Doc.pdf
2015
In May 2015, University Rankings for the year 2014 were announced by HEC. CUI has
been ranked at No.2 in the General Category, and at No. 4 in overall universities
within Pakistan as ranked by HEC.
2014
In May 2014, the CUI attained position in 201-250 range of top Asian Universities
by QS Asian University Rankings. In these Asian University Rankings, 10 institutions
from Pakistan including CUI are among top 300 in Asia. The details are given on
the link: https://comsats.edu.pk/AboutCIIT/ciit_attains_position.aspx
2013
In 2013, Higher Education Commission (HEC) announced Quality and Research based
Rankings of Pakistani Higher Education Institutes where CIIT has been ranked at
number 4 in General Universities (Large) category among all 132 universities of
Pakistan.
Besides, CUI earned an overall 3 stars rating out of a total of Five by QS. The
details are given on the link
https://www.comsats.edu.pk/Qs/qs_stars.aspx
2012
In the year 2012, HEC announced the Quality and Research Based rankings of Pakistani
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on February 23, 2012. Comsats University Islamabad
(CUI) seCUIred the first position in Computer Science and IT category. Besides,
CUI has also been placed at number nine in overall Top Ten HEIs of Pakistan out
of 132 universities.
HEC-Pakistan is the first country in the Islamic world that has developed ranking
criteria, methodology, and has conducted a ranking exercise based on QS (world level)
Ranking. This initiative of QS ranking was taken up by HEC with the objective to
promote a CUIlture of participating in the world university rankings for the purpose
of getting reasonable reflection of HEIs development in the country.
The details are available at:
http://beta.hec.gov.pk/InsideHEC/Divisions/QALI/Others/RankingofUniversities/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Besides, CUI has moved to No. 3 position among all universities in Pakistan based
on the Research Publications published in SCI-E, SSCI, A&HCI databases of Thomson–Reuters
Web of Science for 2012 as announced by HEC.
2011
The HEC revised the ranking based on Research Output in peer-reviewed journals indexed
by Thomson-Reuters, the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), Web of Knowledge,
USA on December 9, 2011. According to revised ranking, CUI maintained its overall
sixth position. In the sub-category of IT & Engineering, CUI stood at number two
while in Social Sciences, Management & Statistics category, CUI seCUIred number
three ranking. In the other two categories of Natural Sciences and AgriCUIlture
& Life Sciences and Medicine, CUI is ranked at number six and 12 respectively.
In addition, CUI has been placed at No. 6 among all universities in Pakistan based
on the Research Publications published in SCI-E, SSCI, A&HCI databases of Thomson–Reuters
Web of Science for 2011 as announced by HEC.
2010
Based on Research output in peer-reviewed journals indexed by Thomson-Reuters, the
Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), Web of Knowledge, USA, CUI improved its
position from number seven (during 2006-2009) and rose to number six during 2010
based on research output.
Also in 2010, QS placed CUI at number 54 among the top 100 Asian universities in
the category of Student to FaCUIlty Ratio with a score of 83.
2009
CUI maintained its ranking number eight in top universities of Pakistan while improved
its ranking from number 55 to number 52 among the top 100 universities in the subcontinent
by Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of World
Universities, during 2009.
CUI maintained its number seven position during the years 2006-2009 in the ranking
based on the research output in peer-reviewed journals indexed by Thomson –Reuters,
ISI Web of Knowledge, as notified by HEC.
2008
The h-index combines an assessment of both the ‘quantity’ (number of papers) and
‘quality’ (impact or citations of these papers). It favors academics publishing
in a continuous stream of papers having a lasting and non zero impact, contrary
to publishing just one highly-cited paper. Among the 68 Pakistani institutions evaluated,
CUI has been listed at the number three position, seCUIring an outstanding h-index
score of ‘13’ (‘15’ being the highest possible) in 2008.
In terms of research citations, as notified by HEC in 2008, CUI was ranked at the
second position. Nine universities located in the Federal capital area were evaluated
for this purpose while CUI was at number five in overall Pakistan.
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of World
Universities, is ranking system for the world's universities based on a composite
indicator that takes into account both the volume of the Web contents (number of
web pages and files) and the visibility and impact of these web publications according
to the number of external links (site citations) they received. The ranking is published
by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Spanish National Research Council
(CSIC) located in Madrid. Ranking Web of Universities by Country ranked CUI at number
eight in Pakistan while at number 55 among the top 100 universities in the subcontinent.
2007
In the ranking based on the research output in peer-reviewed journals indexed by
Thomson –Reuters, ISI Web of Knowledge CUI was ranked at number seven, as notified
by HEC.
2006
The HEC has carried out an exercise for the ranking of institutions of higher education
in Pakistan in 2006. According to HEC’s ranking of engineering universities, CUI
is at number eight among the engineering institutions of higher education.
That same year (2006), HEC expanded the scope of evaluation and ranked all higher
education institutions on the basis of their research output, as indexed by the
Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge database (Thomson Scientific,
2006). CUI got an outstanding score in this category too and was ranked at the seventh
position among 63 universities and degree awarding institutions.