ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jun, 2018 ) :Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) ranked among top 400 universities of the world, to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) WorldUniversity ranking 2019.

Being run under the aegis of pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), it won another feather for its crown as declared the best university within Pakistan, according PIEAS ranked at 397 and succeeded in securing a position in top 400 universities of the world for the very first time in the history of Pakistan.

Whereas, other leading universities of the country like NUST (stood at 417), QAU (between 551 to 560) while LUMS, Punjab University Lahore, UET Lahore,and Comsats University managed to secure a position between 700 to 800, said a news release issued here on Friday.

The QS is one of the most widely referenced international ranking systems. PIEAS has marked a new history by recording the best position ever secured by any Pakistani university in the WorldRanking.

With MIT, Stanford and Harvard at the top, latest QS World Ranking 2019 was published on its official website.

QS citation about PIEAS goes :"PIEAS is one of the most reputed universities of Pakistan. PIEAS offers BS, MS and PhD degree programs in engineering and applied Sciences. Comparing with other universities in Pakistan, PIEAS has the highest proportion of PhD's in its fulltime faculty.

PIEAS has excellent experimental and computational facilities for conducting research and development projects in cuttingedge technologies.

PIEAS is one of the most researchintensive universities of Pakistan. Due to excellent reputation of PIEAS, admission to the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs at PIEAS is highly competitive.

Just in year 2016, more than twelve thousand (12,247 to be exact) candidates competed for 120 seats in BS degree programs and more than seven thousand (7,573 to be exact) candidates competed for 200 seats for admission in MS degree programs with fellowship."It is pertinent to mention here that PIEAS has around 145 highly qualified full-time faculty members in the diverse fields of physical sciences, engineering and medicine. One hundred (100) of them have PhD degrees from the reputed institutions of USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, China, Japan, Korea, Austriaand Australia.

It has produced 200 PhD scholars so far. PIEAS faculty members have been decorated with 03 Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 03 Tamgha-i-Imatiaz, 6 President's Pride of Performance, 1 President's Medal for Technology, 1 Aizaaz-e-Kamal, 3 Aizaaz-e-Fazeelat, and 12 best teacher awards.