Engineering Development Board 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.

NESPAK is Pakistan’s premier consultancy organization (established in 1973). Its international stature is well established and it enjoys the reputation of being one of the top engineering consultancy organizations in Asia and Africa and is ranked amongst the world’s top 200 consulting firms. NESPAK is registered with a number of international funding agencies such as IBRD, ADB, IDB, etc. Todate NESPAK has undertaken 3339 projects out of which 2854 are domestic and 485 are overseas projects located in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh,Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros Island, Dominica, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, U.A.E, Uzbekistan, Yemen. NESPAK, having expertise in almost all engineering disciplines, specializes in the fields of power and mechanical; water and agriculture; architecture and planning; highways, bridges, airports and seaports; environmental and public health engineering; engineering for industry; heating, ventilation and air-conditioning; information technology and geographical information systems (GIS).