C.A.S.E. Competitors

The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), established in 1985, is one of the largest universities in Pakistan. It offers undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programmes through its five schools: Suleman Dawood School of Business, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law and the School of Education.

National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), located in the heart of Islamabad, has gained a premier position among the world's top universities in less than three decades since its establishment. NUST currently stands at 371st position in the World and 68th in Asia as per the QS World University Rankings 2026 and QS Asian University Rankings 2024 respectively. The QS Top 50 Under 50 World University Rankings have placed NUST at the 41st global rank and at 1st rank in Pakistan. NUST produces professionals and researchers of the highest calibre capable of developing indigenous technologies to meet the growing demands of the new era.

The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) is an international organization. It aims to reduce the ever-growing gap between the developed and developing world through useful applications of science and technology. The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) initiated the proposal for the formation of COMSATS under the leadership of Nobel Laureate, Dr. Abdus Salam. The CIIT was established in 1998, as a project of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), which is an inter-governmental organization with 27 member states in three continents; Asia, Africa and Latin America, namely Bangladesh, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Gambia, Iran, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea (DPRK), Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, State of Palestine, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe