Former names
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Mughalpura Technical College, and the Maclagan Engineering College. |
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Motto | Read in the name of thy Lord who creates! |
Type | Public Research |
Established | 1921 |
Chancellor | Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana, Governor of Punjab |
Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Dr. Fazal Ahmad Khalid |
Registrar | Muhammad Asif |
Students | 10,738 |
Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Colors | Blue, Periwinkle |
Nickname | UET Lahore |
Mascot | UETian |
Affiliations | Pakistan Engineering Council, Higher Education Commission |
Website | uet |
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (abbreviated as UET Lahore) is a public research university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan specialising in STEM subjects.
Founded in 1921 as Maclagan Engineering College, it was named after Edward Douglas MacLagan. In 1932, the school became an affiliated college of the University of Punjab and began offering undergraduate degrees in engineering disciplines. In 1962, the university was granted a charter and renamed as the West Pakistan University of Engineering. In 1972, the university was renamed as UET. It established a second campus in 1975 in Taxila, which in 1998 became an independent university in its own right.
The university, as of 2016, has a faculty of 881 people with 257 with doctorates. It has a total of 9,385 undergraduate and 1,708 postgraduate students studying over 32 STEM majors. It has a strong collaboration with University of South Carolina, University of Manchester and the Queen Mary University and has conducted research funded by Huawei, Cavium Networks, Microsoft and MontaVista. It is one of the highest ranked universities in Pakistan, with domestic rankings placing it as the fifth best engineering school in Pakistan, while QS World Rankings putting UET as 701st in the world every year between 2013 and 2016, it is also ranked as 251 in Asia by the same publication in 2016.