National University of Sciences & Technology

Sector H-12 Campus:

The campus in Sector H-12 Islamabad was initiated in 2008. Besides NUST Headquarters, the schools and institutes that were relocated to this campus include School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Research Center for Modeling and Simulation, School of Natural Sciences (formerly known as Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics), Atta-ur-Rehman School of Applied Bio-sciences, School of Art Design and Architecture, NUST Business School, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Professional Development Center, Technology Incubation Center, Marketing and Industrial Relations Organization, NUST Publishing and NUST Outreach and Talent Hunt Initiative. It also has a department for career counselling named Centre for Counselling and Career Advisory (C3A) that helps provide primary mental health facilities.

The campus is spread over 707 acres (2.86 km²) of land.[2] Sports facilities such as cricket, volleyball courts, basketball, soccer and squash courts are present while hockey stadium and tennis courts are under construction. Hostels for both male and female students are present inside the campus. Facilities in the hostels include badminton courts, basketball and gymnasiums. Some hostel rooms have attached baths while others have community baths. The campus recently inaugurated a central library next to the Headquarters, along with a race course track and a horse riding club. In 2017, a small hiking trail was also opened up for students in order to promote physical well-being. Various cafeterias are constructed in the campus to facilitate the students, along with a tailor shop, a barber shop and various bakeries and shopping marts. Separate housing facility for the university staff is also present in the campus. Moreover, the campus also houses the NUST Science and Technology Park (NSTP). It also has a central gymnasium (along with several others in hostels) and a lake.[14]

Military College of Signals (MCS):

Located on Hamayun Road in Rawalpindi Cantt, it is the oldest constituent college of NUST, founded in 1947 after the independence of Pakistan to train the members of Pakistan Armed Forces. The College of Electrical and Software Engineering is located on this campus. The MCS library is computerized, with over 55,000 volumes. It spreads over 50 acres of area and is located in the heart of Rawalpindi Cantt.

College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (CEME):

Located on Grand Trunk Road in Rawalpindi, EME is the largest constituent college of NUST. The campus includes all on-campus facilities, auditorium and conference hall, accommodation and mess facilities. The library is fully computerized, with a collection of 70,000 volumes.

Sports facilities at EME includes three tennis courts, a basketball court, a squash court, a badminton court, football ground, cricket pitch, a swimming pool and two gymnasiums.

College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE):

The college comprises four departments; Aerospace Engineering Department, Avionics Department, Industrial Engineering Department and Humanities and Sciences Department.

Aerospace Engineering Department has five major labs; aerodynamics lab, structure lab, propulsion and heat transfer lab, material science lab and numerical analysis lab. Avionics Department has six labs which include guidance lab, navigation and control system lab, antenna lab, communication lab, radar, microwave and digital system lab and embedded system lab.

The campus is equipped with a library, auditorium, conference hall, dining facilities and hostel facilities, although more hostel accommodation is required for a conducive study environment. The college library has a collection of 80,000 technical and reference books. Sports facilities at the campus include table tennis, badminton, basketball, tennis, volleyball, football, hockey, swimming, golf and cricket.

Military College of Engineering (Pakistan) (MCE):

College of Civil Engineering and National Institute of Transportation are located on this campus. MCE is one of the oldest constituent colleges of NUST, founded in 1948. The campus houses laboratories, a computer centre, library with 41,000 books, sports facilities and hostels.

NUST PNEC campus in Karachi

Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC)

The college campus is spread over an area of about 75 acres (300,000 m²) comprising the administration block, four academic blocks, postgraduate studies center, labs and workshops, professional development center, an auditorium, a mosque, a dispensary, hostel and dining facilities. The campus is home to the Computer Aided Designing and Manufacturing Center and the Professional Development Center.

The campus has a library. A section known as the "Book Bank" stocks used textbooks, loaning them out to undergraduate students for a whole semester, charging 10% of the original cost of the book. The campus offers undergraduate courses in Electrical, Mechanical and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. The students of PNEC are one of the finest engineers in Pakistan and have a high demand both inside and outside the country.

NUST schools and colleges offered the following degree programs. The regular duration of BS and MS/M Phil degree programs are four and two years, respectively.

Discipline	Degree Program
	BS/BE[15]	MS/M Phil,[16]	Ph.D.[17]
Accounting & Finance	Y
Aerospace Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Applied Biosciences	Y	Y	Y
Avionics Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Business Administration	Y	Y	Y
Supply Chain		Y
Human Resource Management		Y	Y
Chemical Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Chemistry	Y	Y	Y
Civil Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Computer Engineering	Y		Y
Computer Sciences	Y	Y	Y
Development Studies		Y
Economics	Y	Y	Y
Electrical Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Environmental Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Geoinformatics Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Industrial Design	Y	Y	Y
Management Information Systems	Y	Y	Y
Mass Communication	Y	Y
Materials Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Mathematics	Y	Y	Y
Mechanical Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Mechatronics Engineering	Y		Y
Military Art & Science	Y	Y	Y
Physics	Y	Y	Y
Psychology	Y
Clinical Psychology		Y	Y
Public Administration	Y
Software Engineering	Y	Y	Y

A Research and Development (R&D) Directorate is established at the NUST headquarters which encourages the growth of research in the university. All efforts of R&D Directorate are coordinated through an organizational structure consisting of NUST headquarters, R&D Cells at each constituent college and NUST's commercial arms. The mission of Research Directorate is to facilitate and co-ordinate research activities of NUST constituent institutions and to liaise with other national as well as international academics, research and industrial organizations to facilitate research at NUST. It has collaboration with various International agencies such as, USAID, British Council, UKAID, QNRF, TWAS, British Petroleum, NRG Bio-fuel Canada, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and many others.[18][19]

Each college, institute and center has an R&D Cell headed by a PhD qualified faculty member who co-ordinates, monitors and records all the R&D activities of the college. The head coordinates all the activities among departments, faculty members, researchers, students and industries identifying potential projects and sources of funds.

NUST Consulting helps researchers undertake consultancy services with external agencies. In this regard, all centers are involved with NC to improve efficiency, reduce of wastage, increase productivity and improve quality.[18]

NUST has established a Technology Incubation Center with an aim to combine industrial development and technological research together and establish the linkages between institutes and the industry. The Incubation Centre has been mentoring and hosting startups since 2005.[20] TIC will also help faculty members in identifying the end users apart from commercializing of R&D output.[19]

The university publishes the following journals:[21]

1. NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences, ISSN 2070-9900
2. NUST Journal of Business and Economics, ISSN 2073-994X
3. NUST Journal of Natural Sciences, ISSN 2072-4659
4. Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, ISSN 0030-9648
5. TECHNOCRAT - Journal of Science and Technology, ISSN 1728-5690

The new campus established in Islamabad is co-located with Tech Town in Sector I-12 where IT and electronics related industries and technology parks are planned to be set up, so as to promote university and industry linkages.[19] Apart from this, NUST is providing training and consultancy services to the industry and other business organizations.[19]

NUST has also bought lab equipment needed for doctoral and postdoctoral research work, with financing through Islamic Development Bank (IDB). IDB has provided 26 Million US$ as grant for buying the services of researchers from abroad, over and above the programs of Ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan.[22]

NUST was the first university in Pakistan to achieve ISO 9000 certification. The constituent colleges that have been certified for ISO Quality Management System include College of Aeronautical Engineering, Military College of Engineering (Pakistan), College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Pakistan Navy Engineering College and Military College of Signals.[2] NUST won two gold and a silver medal out of three gold and three silver medals awarded by the Pakistan Engineering Council for 2005, 2006 and, 2007 for Best Graduate of the Year Award.[2] NUST faculty members won seven awards, including President's Gold Medal, Best Researcher, Distinguished Scientist and Best University Teacher awards during 2007.[2]

According to a survey, NUST is the most popular choice for engineering students in Pakistan.[26] Google Trends show that NUST is the most searched Pakistani university ever since 2004 outranking some of the famous international universities as Sabanci University of Turkey.[27][28]

In 2013, SCImago ranked NUST as 1568 in the world, 480 in the region and 6th in the country for the reporting period of 2007–11.[29] In 2014, Webometric world university rankings ranked it at 150 in the world, 3rd in the country and 22nd in South Asia.

Higher Education Commission of Pakistan ranked NUST as the number one university in the category of 'General University: Large' in 2013 and in the category 'Engineering and Technology' in 2014 and 2015.[30]

Recently, QS World University Rankings ranked NUST as 355 in the world and in the Engineering category, the university was ranked as 251–300. NUST ranks #83 in Asian University Rankings.[31]

International universities

NUST has developed collaborations with international universities to ensure two-way flow of knowledge. These include Stanford University, Iowa State University, University of Michigan, University of Central Florida, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Cranfield University, University of Manchester, University of the West of England, University of Southampton, University of Surrey, Charles Darwin University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Technical University of Denmark (DTU).[2]

NUST has collaborations with universities in the field of medical sciences, such as Harvard University Medical School, New York Medical College, Virginia Cancer Institute, King's College London (University of London), Queen Mary, University of London, Imperial College London, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, Edith Cowan University and University of Dublin (Trinity College, St. James Hospital, School of Pharmacy), Ireland.[2]

Quality networks and associations

NUST is a member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE)[32] and Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN).[33] NUST has also been granted the membership of Association of Commonwealth Universities[34] and International Association of Universities.[2][35]

Other entities

NUST has the following international collaborations:[2]

• Collaboration with CERN since December 2001. NUST has been awarded Associate Membership of CERN.
• Collaboration with Caltech on a project titled 'Interactive Grid Analysis Environment'. Research funding of US$0.18 million has been approved under Pak-US collaboration for this project.
• Collaboration with Stanford University since February 2004 in a project titled 'Measurement and Analysis for the Global Grid and Internet End-to-End Performance (MAGGIE)'. Research funding of US$0.162 Million has been approved under Pak-US collaboration for this project.
• NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (formerly NUST Institute of Information Technology) has been declared Microsoft Authorized Academic Training Program Institute (AATPI) by Microsoft Corporation, USA.
• Intel Corporation has established a computer lab at SEECS.
• NCR Corporation has established their Data warehouse and Data mining lab at SEECS.
• IBM has registered NUST on worldwide offering for higher education to selected universities.
• Artificial Intelligence R&D Lab has been set up in NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) in collaboration with German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (German DFKI) and University of Kaiserslautern (TUKL), Germany.[36]