Dr Syed Muhammad Junaid Zaidi, Rector COMSATS Institute of Information Technology has said that COMSATS is now currently ranked No 1 university in the country out of 180 universities and had set target to enter in the club of top 500 universities of the world as currently none of Pakistani university is among top ranked universities of the world.
This he said while addressing as the chief guest at the 92nd and 93rd convocation of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, at Abbottabad on Monday. A total of 798 students were awarded degrees and medals in the two sessions of the convocation. Rector said that last year 1,200 research papers were published by the students of COMSATS of all the seven campuses and now this year target of 1,600 has been fixed where research papers and theses will be published in the renowned journals published from different parts of the world. Dr Junaid Zaidi vowed to provide maximum resources to the academia and students for which he also thanked the Ministry of Science and Technology, Finance Ministry and donors who are providing financial assistance to COMSATS.