Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Rabi-ul-Sani 29, 1429    

Category of SSUET raised

Karachi—The Higher Education Commission has upgraded the category of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology.

Chairman HEC has upgraded the University from Category X’/previous ‘Category B’ to category W’/previous ‘Category A’ unversities/ institutions in relation to Cabinet Criteria requirements in shape of academic, financial and physical infrastructure.The Chairman HEC approved the upgradation of SSUET’s Category on the recommendation of the Committee which carried out the University’s inspection earlier.

The University has made tremendous progress in various fields with financial strength having risen from required Rs 200 million to 1300.380 million rupees.

It includes working capital of Rs 740.114 million as against the required Rs 50 million, financial endowment gone up to Rs 260 million as against standard 50 million rupees and tangible assets having grown to Rs 560.266 million as against normal 100 million rupees. The university has an administrative staff of 184 with 1:1.39 ratio as against admen staff:teacher ratio of 1:2.

SSUET’s Faculty has 244 full time teachers as against atleast 24 teachers (full time) and has 15 Professors and Associate Professors with Ph.D degrees.

The university subscribe to 38 journals as against atleast 15 current journals of international repute and has 50,200 text books and 16,000 reference books as against atleast 1500 books from major international publishers in the relevant field.

It has 10 computer, 18 Electronic , 15 Bio-Medical and 10 Civil Engineering Labs as against standard one lab for each department. The University has internet facility with 2 MB link as against required 256 Kbytes access rate.—APP