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ISLAMABAD: Six Pakistan institutes of higher education are ranked among the world's top 800 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British ranking agency.
The Pakistani varsities that made it to the QS World University Rankings 2015-2016 include the National University of Sciences And Technology (Nust) Islamabad, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Lahore University of Management Sciences (Lums), University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, University of Karachi (KU) and the University of Lahore. Nust was also ranked separately at 340 in the 'Engineering and Technology' category.
The QS rankings take into account academic reputation (40 per cent), employer reputation (10pc), student to faculty ratio (20pc), citations per faculty (20pc), international faculty ratio (5pc) and international students (5pc). The methodology aims to assess research, teaching, employability and internationalisation.
Ranking of Pakistani varsities
Nust Islamabad: 501-550
QAU: 651-700
Lums: 701+
UET Lahore: 701+
KU: 701+
University of Lahore: 701+
The top 10 universities in the world, according to the QS rankings are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, University College London, Imperial College, ETH Zurich and the University of Chicago.
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Mar 09, 2016 11:08am
147 rank is Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc), 179 rank is Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), 202 rank is Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), 254 is Indian Institute of Technology Chennai (IITC), 271 is Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), 286 is Indian Institute of Technology Karagpur (IITk) ... This shown Indian Education is far ahead in Sub-continent... However Indian education system must break into top 50, that is the real achievement in Education...
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Mar 09, 2016 11:11am
its so ironic that LUMS was not in top 10 universities in latest HEC ranking and yet it is internationally acknowledged? can HEC explain this?
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Mar 09, 2016 11:24am
We need to improve standard of higher education so that ranking of Pakistani universities comes much higher than the 501-550 category. Pakistan is one of the most populous countries with hard working people. There is enough potential to do better but some discipline in the society is lacking.
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Mar 09, 2016 11:40am
student to faculty ratio,international student & faculty constitute 30% score where indian universities lags behind to top institute.
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Mar 09, 2016 11:44am
So we can hope for a progressive Pakistan!
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Mar 09, 2016 12:02pm
The main thing is that you must have to spend money in education as much as you can. The more you spend in research institution the you will get reward.
even our top institutes lack basics research facilities.
I some time think, but in vain, that may there could be some way to divert our elders mind from unwanted works of making roads and Oranges and Metros to this unique special sector of Education.
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Mar 09, 2016 12:23pm
I guess we are happy with being average
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Mar 09, 2016 12:25pm
Still far behind in the world education. Probably more research work and respective feedback in working market is needed to move ahead.
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Mar 09, 2016 12:35pm
Delusions of grandeur.
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Mar 09, 2016 12:47pm
Some consolation at least....
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Mar 09, 2016 12:50pm
It is time for Pakistan to compare their level of Education with India and hope to beat India in this field instead of striving to outdo their Eastern neighbor and arch rival in warfare. 2 Universities of India have made it to the to 200 list this year. We hope to see Pakistan compete successfully next time. :)
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Mar 09, 2016 12:57pm
Good to see Pakistan in positive light
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Mar 09, 2016 01:07pm
So this proves, Pakistan has good faculty and certainly bright students as well. Pakistan now needs to generate opportunities for these folks so that the brain drain stops. More intellectuals in the society will certainly help Pakistan.
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Mar 09, 2016 01:07pm
What is wrong with IBA??
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Mar 09, 2016 01:15pm
Pakistan is far behind in university ranking. Being so populated country we shud have atleast one university in top 200 at minimum. I think education is the best medium term project on which we need to invest to fight poverty and extremism in this country.
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Mar 09, 2016 01:22pm
All below 500th rank! I bet Colleges in Vietnam, Mexico or Ghana scored higher!
That is not a badge of honor...Unless you are in the top-20 in the World!
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Mar 09, 2016 01:27pm
Good deal ! The competition for entrance into those schools will be even tougher now.
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Mar 09, 2016 01:52pm
It is nothing but a shame reading this news. Had the so called democratic governments stayed on course with Mush era initiatives under the supervision of Dr. Ata, we surely now had at least 5 universities ranking among the to 500. But for some it does not matter. They would rather build roads, metroes and have yellow taxies to their name.
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Mar 09, 2016 02:08pm
In Dubai there is huge hype of LUMS and lot of companies are interested to attract graduates from LUMS but they aren't many available in UAE. But I am surprised that LUMS is behind all the rest in Pakistan and ranked 700+. It seems there is something wrong in rankings. Also another great university is Aga Khan which is highly regarded in GCC but it is not even in world ranking same is the case with IBA!
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Mar 09, 2016 02:13pm
that clearly shows low quality of Education that we provide even our top education inistitute are on worlds 800 rank ... I really don't know criteria for HEC is quality or quantity.
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Mar 09, 2016 02:34pm
Funny enough that with my marks I wasn't able to get admission in either NUST or UET but got admission in a Uni which is within 100 top universities list.
Our education system is complete failure, we need to revamp it, it is the only thing which will help us in future.
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Mar 09, 2016 02:34pm
now check the HEC ranking. you will get to know the contradiction.
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Mar 09, 2016 02:42pm
Education is the ONLY future. Pakistani Government MUST invest more in education and science & technology. We are far far behind our real potential. We have many examples where Pakistanis have excelled in science given the environment and financial backing.
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Mar 09, 2016 02:44pm
In my view, this is a great news. In 2006, I searched for Pakistani universities in top-ranked ones. LUMS was the only one, standing at 2800 something at that time. We should not ignore the fact that this is a world-wide ranking. Well done the faculty members of NUST, QAU, LUMS, UET Lahore, KU, UoL.
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Mar 09, 2016 03:07pm
What happened to NED University?? It has always been the pride of Engineering Education in the past .
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Mar 09, 2016 03:09pm
@Mahmood ....... I bet you must've graduated from one of these 500+ universities thats why your comment is full of gloom and not a word of optimism!
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Mar 09, 2016 03:12pm
This speaks volumes about state of higher education in Pakistan. Government should pay attention to this and get the best minds in Teaching and learning together. We have the talent. I am disappointed really!!!.
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Mar 09, 2016 03:28pm
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia ranks 199.
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Mar 09, 2016 03:31pm
Little to be happy about. Imagine the quality of its graduates. And the loss to the nation with more mediocre students.
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Mar 09, 2016 04:11pm
@Shaam Lal Fear not little one. You too can graduate if you get the admission first!
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Mar 09, 2016 04:14pm
@SARMAD IBA is part of University of Karachi.
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Mar 09, 2016 04:23pm
My warm congratulations to the professors, support staff and administration of these universities. Job well done. You should rightly be proud of this achievement. Lets improve the ratings next year and have more of Pakistani universities in higher rankings.
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Mar 09, 2016 04:30pm
Our subcontinent has no institute in top 100... We can never dream of becoming a developed nation, or even a well developing nation, unless we have some real good educational institutions.
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Mar 09, 2016 05:40pm
Federal government must produce reforms in the universities of sindh.In this regard,sindh university has touched the heights of its mismanagement,maladministration,violation of discipline and humiliation of teaching ethics.Thus requesting the prevailing governing elites to energize the initiatives on the basis of equilibrium and transparency in the struggle of reasoning
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Mar 09, 2016 05:41pm
@K you have a good point here. So called merit based system ranks 500+ in the world.
Our entrance exam system should rank us amongst the worlds top 50 as well.
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Mar 09, 2016 05:52pm
how come top univ are American of brit but top engineers in mechanical, IT, ect come from india, japan, Germany, china ect
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Mar 09, 2016 06:05pm
I think its biased ranking , Pakistani , Indian students are hardworking and bright. Universities are good too... this ranking doesn't mean a thing!!
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Mar 09, 2016 06:32pm
@U Saifi No,IBA is a separate University
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Mar 09, 2016 06:53pm
@Niran all the best for our neighbour.
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Mar 09, 2016 07:36pm
This ranking is not reliable. It is based on western parameters and they have placed most of western universities over the top of many top notched Asian universities (in Singapore, Japan, China and India)....so it is not so reliable.
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Mar 09, 2016 07:57pm
Very Poor rating for a country that is 8th largest in the world and full of resources and got independence more than 70 years ago. One reason is slave and serving mentality of our Political leadership who still send their children abroad to study rather than develop their own institutions...
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Mar 09, 2016 08:08pm
Top 800!! And this is a proud news. I remember NUST being in top 400 a few years ago.
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Mar 09, 2016 08:37pm
Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Aghan Khan, IBA???
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Mar 09, 2016 08:42pm
@Saad Mansoor "King Fahd" --- etc
this ranking is not meaningful.
The initial PURPOSE of a higher education institution is so that its students LEARN, which means teachers must know how to teach what they teach. Research is secondary. Yet in most ranking research is over-weighted; that can happen later, much later, after the education-teaching-learning part is 'successful'.
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Mar 09, 2016 08:48pm
out of 6 named Universities, one was founded before partition, 4 were founded during Martial Law regimes.... what have been these two parties (ppp and pmln - 6 time together ) doing for education ?
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Mar 09, 2016 08:50pm
Wow!! Pakistan is twice better than India in higher education.
India with a population 6 x Pakistan has only 17 inst. on the list as compared to Pakistan has 6 inst. Way to go Pakistan!!!
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Mar 09, 2016 08:59pm
Focus should be how to improve education in Pakistan. And this is not only the Government job. There are private schools in Pakistan as well.
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Mar 09, 2016 08:59pm
Very shameful.
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Mar 09, 2016 09:03pm
Real talent is produced in schools. Some body should sort out good schools in government and private sectors with ranking in twenty cities of Pakistan.
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Mar 09, 2016 09:03pm
No need to pay attention at these rankings. It's very biased. Ranking agency is British. Therefore they'll always keep their universities at the top. That's the truth.
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Mar 09, 2016 09:07pm
For a country of 200 million people to be ranked in the last eight hundred is shameful.
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Mar 09, 2016 09:25pm
Did you know that a degree from any Pakistani university is not given the full credit in any university in United States,you have to go to school for more hours or credits.A Masters degree from Pakistan is the same as a Bachelors.That tells you that our standards of education are way below the standards of the world.This is where our governments need to invest,in education,teachers,labs,technology,research and so on.It only prepares our students for a better tomorrow.We need qualified math and science teachers,but when most your politicians hold fake degrees,they will never understand the importance of education,investing in education means better education for coming generation,better jobs,more opportunities,better economy.But hey,metro buses and motorways serves a much more meaningful purpose,it gives the political parties bragging rights,which is more important than education.
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Mar 09, 2016 09:37pm
@atif Sorry my friend it does reflect quality of universities. Our students may be smart, hardworking, etc. but how much of free thinking, creative work we encourage? How much of real research is done? I am from India and it's clear that both India and Pakistan are still way behind the developed world.
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Mar 09, 2016 09:39pm
There is room for our institutes of higher learning to improve qualitatively by introducing modern teaching methodologies and techniques matching international standards. It means our Education system running on old and obsolete lines should be overhauled to meet the requirements of the 21st century. It is the research oriented approach that produces quality professionals capable of standing at par with those in the developed countries. The value of knowledge lies in its application to serve humanity in different domains of science and technology, art and literature and other fields of human sciences. Education refines societies equipping them with high moral and ethical traits. The government should not hesitate in allocating the required budget for promoting education in order to create a society befitting Pakistan.
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Mar 09, 2016 10:03pm
@Shahid Agree, under Musharraf and Dr Ata, education was rightly given much greater priority over day to day conveniences such as roads and metro buses. But when you have businessmen/politicians at the helm, all they think about is making money today and getting votes in the next elections. Their thinking does not go beyond five years.
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Mar 09, 2016 10:28pm
@kavita,Although I appreciate your gesture,but Pakistan does not to compete with India or anyone else,we just need to raise our educational standards to better educate our nation,for us.This isn't about India,its about our beloved Pakistan,
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Mar 09, 2016 10:31pm
Good achievement, considering current situation of Pakistan.
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Mar 09, 2016 10:39pm
Pakistan can make 100 world class institutes...talent is there...hard work and honesty is the only condition..
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Mar 09, 2016 10:58pm
Its really sad to view that the ranking of Nust is constantly declining
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Mar 09, 2016 11:01pm
@Syed Ali i think pakisthan should compete with india in education, human welfare. industrial development etc. science advancement like space. instead of trying to accumlate more nuclear arms!
will there be a time when pakisthan students are admitted in our I.I.T.s like so many from others from developing countries!
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Mar 09, 2016 11:17pm
@Niran matter of pride if ranking is better than Pakistani educational institutions....great achievement?
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Mar 09, 2016 11:49pm
These are extremely poor rankings.
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Mar 09, 2016 11:58pm
UK is amazing being such a tiny isle. Four out of the top ten universities of the world being British.
Am very proud of the great Imperial College London which also boasts no less than 13 Nobel Laureates. Ah, bring back those glorious college days.
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Mar 10, 2016 12:35am
Well done Pakistan- 6 educational establishment is still an achievement out of 800 from the entire world. This is people's effort minus government helping hand. But we need more attention towards universities as well. Look at Karachi Grammar school Karachi, ranked one of the best in the world. It produces A+ students and highest mark record breakers in all subjects, as if it was routine stuff.
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Mar 10, 2016 12:37am
@Muzzamil let parties like PTI get elected and then we will be in top 50 s.
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Mar 10, 2016 12:37am
@Yousuf , Sir pl look at the world universities ranking used by a Chinese University. It is called "Shanghai Ranking". This is used by most of the world. In its 2015 ranking 9 out of first 10 are from USA and one is from UK. The first best Chinese ranking starts at
# 101. Chinese are smart and very realistic. They could have given a higher ranking to their own universities. But this way they get a real picture and improve themselves.
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Mar 10, 2016 12:43am
@My 2 cents Nust, Islamabad dropped from 486 to 518. Consolation is, its still in the list.
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Mar 10, 2016 12:48am
@Saint To become average Pak institutes need to work harder. In the table, Pak institutes are below average. So your comment should read "I guess we are happy with being below average"
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Mar 10, 2016 12:59am
In one sense we should be proud, our entire education budget is $750 million, whilst MITs annual budget is $3.2 billion, so six in the top 800 is a great achievement.
The fact all education comes from this budget and 48% of the population is illiterate, should cause shame to us all.
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Mar 10, 2016 01:07am
@GAWAL MANDI YA Having said that ... go and vote for PML N and PPP for next 20 yrs and things will be more hopeless.
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Mar 10, 2016 02:04am
These rankings are very subjective. Being involved in academia in Pakistan and abroad, I can say for a fact that recently the education standard at Pakistani universities (at least engineering universities) has improved significantly. It was pathetic when I graduated. But they still have a long way to go before they can even come close to the universities in the West.
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Mar 10, 2016 02:28am
What no NED???? I live in California and everyone from Pakistan with engineering degree is NED alumni. WoW! that is shocker... Moreover no Agha Khan University, no IBA (Although I am not sure if IBA has been considered under the Karachi University?).
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Mar 10, 2016 03:20am
@Niran
Good job. Those are good rankings but I think a nation with 1.2 billion should have more ranked in top. And then ranked in 200th or 300th is not the best for top Indian institutes. Similarly, around 400th or 500th does not look good for Pak either.
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Mar 10, 2016 05:57am
Should we proud of it?
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Mar 10, 2016 06:02am
Change the criteria and the ranking too will undergo a change. one criteria is the income to the University from the industry. This is well an important factor and extension of the outcome of research done in the universities and its application in the industries or the business world. These are main constraints for better scoring in the ranking.
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Mar 10, 2016 06:03am
@Tamza Research is the only way to learn.
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Mar 10, 2016 06:42am
The world belongs to those who are number one in science and technology.
Example: Apple Inc has yearly revenue of US 233 billion! This is just one company.
Law of Cause and Effect always works!
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Mar 10, 2016 09:27am
This is pathetic.
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Mar 10, 2016 09:44am
Congratulations Niran and Indians for better showing.
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Mar 10, 2016 10:19am
Aga Khan University used to be the best in Pakistan where is it now.
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Mar 10, 2016 12:30pm
i think NUST, LUMS are way better than unis in top 500 hundreds in term of research. In korea every university wants student from NUST.
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Mar 10, 2016 02:59pm
Unless the institutions are in the top 100, there is little to celebrate and much to be concerned about. A country cannot advance until it innovates. Both INDIA and Pakistan have a long way to go. India, less so.
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Mar 10, 2016 03:46pm
@Vijayendra Kumar" Unless the institutions are in the top 100, there is little to celebrate and much to be concerned about. A country cannot advance until it innovates. Both INDIA and Pakistan have a long way to go. India, less so."
Very true, very true, very true.....
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Mar 10, 2016 07:26pm
@Niran Seven Indian univs come from the 100 to 300 ranks. And eight come at 701 plus. Really disappointed as I expected much better rankings, qualitatively and quantitatively.
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