The University of Indonesia (UI) has ranked 19 Pakistani universities in the top 500 greenest campuses around the world in its Green Metric World University Ranking. These rankings, developed by the university in 2010, compare and evaluate campus sustainability efforts. 51 Pakistani universities participated in the competition this year along with 912 universities from 84 countries. Out of the top 500 universities, only 19 were Pakistani.
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The Multan’s Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture is the country’s greenest higher education campus, followed by NUST. The two campuses are ranked 154th and 179th in the overall rankings. Rawalpindi’s Arid Agriculture University is ranked third after losing 325 points in the education and research categories.
The following is a list of all Pakistani universities ranked in the top 500 greenest campuses:
University | Ranking by Country | Global Ranking | Overall Score |
Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture | 1 | 154 | 7550 |
National University of Sciences & Technology | 2 | 179 | 7350 |
Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University | 3 | 191 | 7245 |
University of Agriculture Faisalabad | 4 | 216 | 7100 |
University of Lahore | 5 | 226 | 7050 |
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology | 6 | 234 | 7000 |
Capital University of Science And Technology | 7 | 286 | 6775 |
Mehran University of Engineering & Technology | 8 | 298 | 6700 |
University of Faisalabad | 9 | 341 | 6425 |
Iqra University | 10 | 353 | 6350 |
Hazara University | 11 | 398 | 6000 |
Ziauddin University | 12 | 408 | 5950 |
University of Malakand | 13 | 419 | 5900 |
Islamia University of Bahawalpur | 14 | 438 | 5800 |
University of Central Punjab | 15 | 464 | 5650 |
Allama Iqbal Open University | 16 | 485 | 5525 |
Institute of Business Management | 17 | 486 | 5500 |
University of Okara | 18 | 489 | 5475 |
Sukkur University | 19 | 490 | 5475 |
Source: UI Green Metric