By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
The process for Admissions-2014 in engineering technologies
of Electronics, Civil, Computer, Telecommunication and Bio-Medical
besides Computer Science has started at the Sir Syed University of Engineering
& Technology (SSUET), Karachi.
According to pre-admission notice issued by the University,
the Aptitude test will be held on November 24, 2013.
The University is all set to introduce new programs of
Architecture, Software Engineering and Bio-Informatics from academic year 2014
and according to Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Jawaid H Rizvi, the SSUET’s
Board of Governors has already given go ahead in this regard..
According to him the university is also exploring the
possibility of introducing BS program at its Institute of Environment and Human
Settlements.
The Disaster Relief Plan Cell at this institute has
published various reports on Disaster preparedness in the wake of floods,
rains, earth quakes, fire etc which were highly appreciated in various circles.
The Vice-Chancellor pointed out that at present SSUET has
over 5500 students on its roll studying in the engineering disciplines of
Computer, Electronics, Bio-Medical, Civil and Telecommunication besides
computer science.
He said that keeping the new emerging trends, the university
has decided to start new programs to meet the growing market demands.
Dr Rizvi said the university is already offering
post-graduate programs and at Master and Ph.D levels besides robust continuous
education program in the evening.
He said the introduction of new programs from new academic
year would open up doors for those who want to enter the fields having greater
potential to cope with the growing market demands.
It may be mentioned here that Higher Education Commission
has granted highest W4 ranking to the University while graded as 5-star
University by the Charter Inspection and Evaluation Committee of Sindh
Government. The ISO 9001 certified, SSUET is a member of Association of
Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and International Association of Universities (IAU),
UNESCO, Paris.
According to a university announcement, the admissions will
be strictly on merit giving weightage to marks obtained in Matric (SSC),
Intermediate (HSC) and Aptitude test. The university has made available model
test papers of last 5 years at the Bank’s booth inside the campus.
