National University of Sciences and Technology Founded in 1991, National University of Sciences and Technology is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the large city of Islamabad . It was formed due to the demand for quality IT education in the country and the requirement for NUST to launch its own IT department. NUST-SEECS was launched on self-finance basis in April 1999 as a constituent college of National University of Sciences and Technology.This institution has also branch campuses in the following locations, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Risalpur.National University of Sciences and Technology NUST offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of .
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL PUNJAB Education in the twenty-first century demands a balance between continuity and change. The technological leaps and the consequences thereof have overtaken the old educational paradigms and new concepts have emerged in the world of learning. The Punjab Group of Colleges PGC was among the first to realize this transition and its challenges. The PGC, therefore, submitted a petition to the Government of the Punjab, in August 1996, to allow to establish a university in the province. A No Objection Certificate was issued in October 1999. The charter to establish the University of Central Punjab UCP was awarded in April 2002. Thus this University clinched the distinction of becoming the first private sector university in the Punjab which acquired the status of a degree awarding institution. When the University started its operations in October 1999, it offered courses in Management Studies, Information Technology, Commerce and Law through its principal constitu