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Oldest Engineering Educational
Institution of Pakistan, Established 1921
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Produced the largest number of
Engineering Graduates ( > 30,000 ) in Pakistan
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Ranked :
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No.1 Public Sector Engineering
University in Pakistan
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281 in World Engineering
Universities
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61 in Asian Engineering
Universities
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85 in Asian Natural Sciences
Universities
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Student enrollment 8770 with 699
international students
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Faculty strength 804 including 232
Faculty members on PhD Studies abroad
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Annual Recurring Budget Rs. 2076 M
and Development Budget Rs. 733 M
The University of Engineering and
Technology (main) located in the northern part of Lahore on the
historical "Grand Trunk Road (G.T. Road)", near the magnificent
Shalimar Gardens built during the great Mughal Empire.
The institution started its career in
1921 as the ‘ Mughalpura Technical College ’. Later it became the
‘Maclagan Engineering College’, a name given to it in 1923 when Sir
Edwards Maclagan, the then Governor of the Punjab who laid the
foundation stone of the main building, now called the Main Block,
which still retains its majesty despite the wear and tear of over
eight decades. At that stage the institution offered courses of
study in only two disciplines; Electrical Engineering and Mechanical
Engineering.
In the year 1932, the institution was
affiliated with the University of the Punjab for award of a
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. In 1947, at the time of
independence, the Institution was offering well-established B.Sc.
Degree Courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
In 1954 it started a Bachelor's Degree
course in Mining Engineering, the first-ever of its kind in the
country. However, the real expansion and development of the
institution commenced in 1961 on its transformation into the ‘West
Pakistan University of Engineering & Technology’, and within a few
years Bachelor's Degree Courses were started in Chemical
Engineering, Petroleum & Gas Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering,
Architecture, and City & Regional Planning.
Later, the University started to develop
its postgraduate programs, and by 1970's it was offering Master's
Degree Courses in various specializations of engineering,
architecture, planning and allied disciplines. Later, Ph.D. Degree
Program was also instituted in a number of disciplines. With
phenomenal increase in students enrollment in seventies, the
University established an Engineering College at Taxila in 1975,
which later became an independent University in 1998 as the
University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.
Keeping in view the upcoming power
crises situation in the country, in 2004 the University established
its own Power Generation Unit with capacity of 2 Mega Watts later
enhanced to 3 Mega Watts and became first and only countrywide
educational institution who has its own Power Generation Unit
To meet the growing demands for the
Engineering graduates and allied disciplines in the country, the
University started an expansion program in the new millennium.
Consequently the teaching and research capacity of the UET-Main was
enhanced and the establishment of the satellite campuses was taken
up . At present, the University has three satellite campuses; the
Faisalabad Campus, the Kala-Shah-Kaku Campus, and the Rachna College