About CIIT
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The COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), which
received its Charter from the Federal Government in August 2000, as a Degree Awarding
Institute (DAI) in the public sector. The CIIT is now
slated for upgradation as a university by the name of ‘Comsats University’ through
an Act of the Parliament. Being federally established institute, the COMSATS
Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), is a fully flourishing ranking institution
of higher learning in the country, with seven functional Campuses in cities of Islamabad, Abbottabad, Lahore, Wah, Attock, Sahiwal and Vehari |
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while six more campuses at Gujrat, Toba Tek Singh, Karachi, Larkana, Quetta &
Peshawar are in advanced planning stage. The future plans also envisage opening of more campuses in
the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, as well as overseas.
Currently the CIIT
is offering 47 different degree programs
divided as 20 undergraduate and 27 graduate programs
in the fields of Information and Communication
Technology, Management Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics,
Physics, Bio-sciences, Development Studies, Environmental Science, Meteorology,
and Architecture and Design. The present student strength is around 16,000
with faculty corpus of more than 1,600.
The CIIT has already
produced 8,117 graduates up
to Spring 2009, who are serving the nation in the various callings.
CIIT has been consistently ranked among the top seven (7)
institutions of higher education since 2006, as per certifications notified by the
Higher Education Commission (HEC). While in terms of research output, CIIT has been ranked at number 5 among institutions of higher education numbering more than 114 in the country during 2005-2007. CIIT has also been ranked at number
7 in research ranking of Universities
on the basis of cumulative Impact Factor based on Institute of Scientific Information
(ISI) web of knowledge (USA). CIIT was also ranked at top 2 position for Research
Citations during 2008. In 2008, HEC once again compiled results on the basis of
publications from Pakistani Universities/DAI’s which appeared in peer-reviewed journals,
indexed by Thomson Reuters, ISI Web of Knowledge, and published them in the newspapers
on 7th June 2009. According to this publication, CIIT attained 7th ranking among
124 Universities/DAI’s.
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APR
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CEPEX
2010, 2nd-3rd Aril 2010 (Islamabad)
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MAY
12
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13th Meeting of COMSATS Coordinating
Council, May 12-13 2010, Trieste, Italy read more... |
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MAR
29
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Workshop on Multi Protocol Label Switching,
EE Department, CIIT Lahore read more... |
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DEC
21
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3-day International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology
December:
21-23, 2010,
Islamabad
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