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LAHORE:February 8: The Times Higher Education Asian University
Rankings 2018 Wednesday ranked the Government College
University (GCU) 351+ in its latest rating.
The GCU, last July, was ranked 1001+ in worldwide rankings by
Times Higher Education. However, in the worldwide list, GCU had
stood 683rd on the basis of its international outlook among all the
world universities.
“We have been sending data to Times Higher Education for many
years, but it was the first time in July 2017 and second time in
February 2018 that GCU was listed among international universities,”
said Quality Enhancement Cell Director Iram Sohail.
Government College University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Hassan Amir
Shah said besides international recognition, these rankings helped
universities understand their weak and strong areas. He said the
industry-academia gap was the reason of lack in ranking.
However, GCU Chemistry department had hosted an international
conference last month on industry-academia linkages to bridge this
gap, he said. The VC hoped that the university would improve its
ranking in 2019. He called upon the government to increase funding
to GCU, saying that their challenge was to improve quality and ranking
while remaining affordable to the students.The news.