A fairly depressing truth about higher education in Pakistan has come to light with the publication of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Since only one university in the nation, Quaid-e-Azam University, has managed to rank among the top 500 worldwide, significant concerns are raised regarding the caliber of education in the nation.
The university was ranked between 400 and 500, a tiny gap that highlights the difficulties Pakistan’s educational institutions face. Although the inclusion of 47 Pakistani universities in the top 2,000 worldwide is impressive, the country’s 14th place rating among those having universities in the Times rankings is hardly cause for celebration given that Pakistan is home to the fifth-largest population in the world.
The comparison background darkens much worse when we take Taiwan into consideration.
