As many as 102 public and private universities across the country have submitted their data to Higher Education Commission (HEC) for carrying out ranking. An official of HEC told APP that all 132 public and private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) were asked to submit their data by July 15 but only six universities followed the deadline.
HEC wrote letters to the Vice Chancellors of remaining 126 universities to submit their data as earliest as possible after which 95 more universities submitted their data. The official said 31 universities, which are remaining until today, have assured to submit data within a week.
HEC is taking the initiative of ranking the universities to help strengthen their indigenous quality culture and improve international visibility. It has asked the universities for providing authentic data and those, which fail to provide data, will be ranked zero by placing them at the bottom in the ranking list to be published through print media.
HEC' initiative to carry out quality based ranking of HEIs is aimed at international compatibility, primarily based on the QS Ranking System acceptable widely across countries.
The commission has taken various initiatives to bring the HEIs at par with international standards and ranking is one of the measures to scale the success of efforts to achieve international competitiveness in education, research and innovation.