31 December 2009, 6:06 am
Lahore is famous for its education. It has many colleges and universities than any other city in the country. Lahore is Pakistan’s largest creator of professionals in the countryside of science, technology, IT, engineering, medicine, nuclear sciences, pharmacology, telecommunication, biotechnology and microelectronics. Most of the reputable universities are community, but in recent years there has moreover been an upsurge in the amount of private universities. The current literacy velocity of Lahore is 64%. Lahore is well thought-out a city of educational institutions. All over the place there are hundreds of schools and colleges in Lahore. There are many prominent and recognized institutions in Lahore. There standard of education is equivalent to any international educational institutions in the world.
Lahore congregations some of Pakistan's oldest educational institutes as Government College Lahore which is now Government College University, it is established in 1864; Forman Christian College, a chartered university established in 1864; University of the Punjab, established in 1882; Kinnaird College, established in 1913; and University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (UET Lahore), established in 1921. University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (UET Lahore) is Pakistan's oldest technical degree-awarding institution and its first university in the field of engineering and technology. Established as Mughalpura Technical College in 1921, it was upgraded to a university in 1962. The University of Lahore is a fresh private sector university in Lahore. It is rising as a university with strength in the areas of engineering sciences and technology, business & administrative sciences, and biotechnology.
Lahore's foundations in the fields of computer science, IT, and engineering include the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU)
and Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT). Lahore's notable business schools are the University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and Lahore School of Economics.
Lahore has three of the supreme high schools in Asia which are Aitchison College, St. Anthony's High School and Lahore Grammar School, which feed students to leading universities across the globe. Aitchison College and St. Anthony's High School have also been responsible for producing prominent political leaders and sportsmen for Pakistan.
Other outstanding educational institutes situated in Lahore include the National College of Arts; a regional campus of the National University of Modern Languages (NUML); and Hajvery University (HU), a impressive private sector university. VU (virtual university) is also glowing university for distance learning.
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