ISLAMABAD- Pakistan’s top University — the National University of Scienceand Technology (NUST) is planning to open its campuses in the UAE and SaudiArabia.
“We are increasing our visibility around the world to attract morePakistani expatriates and foreign students,” said Lt-General (retired)Naweed Zaman, Rector of the NUST link> .
He said the NUST link> is working onplans to open at least two campuses — one each in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.“Our priority is to open the NUSTlink> campusin the UAE first as we are talking to the authorities concerned,” Lt-GenZaman told Gulf News on the sidelines of an event held in Abu Dhabi as partof the university’s outreach programme.
The event was organised by an Abu Dhabi-based prominent Pakistanibusinessman Malik Zaheer Awan, who is also chairman of the Council ofPakistani Engineers in the UAE.
Lt-Gen Zaman said that they are working on different options to set up theuniversity campuses within next two to three years if they manage to reachan agreement with the authorities concerned in the UAE. “We are also openfor public-private sector partnership to operate the campuses,” he added.
NUST link> is the only Pakistaniuniversity which ranks among 500 universities in the world at number 437.It offers 124 programmes to more than 16,000 students in various studyfields for graduation, post-graduation and the PhD. Around 50,000 studentsappear for admission tests every year to compete for 2,000 seats.