18 Jul 2023
NUST Reviews
4.1
71% would recommend to a friend
62% positive business outlook
NUST has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 286 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The NUST employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
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286 reviews
2.0
11 Jul 2015
NUST is mediocrity, with occasional spikes of excellence during its history
Current employee, more than 3 years
Islamabad, Islamabad
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Reasonable teaching work load, that permits enough time to conduct research. It is still the best public sector university in Pakistan. In my opinion, it is also better than all but two private universities, the Aga Khan University and the Lahore University of Management Sciences both of which are miles ahead of NUST in terms of quality and maturity /stability of their procedures. Faculty and staff have recently been provided the opportunity to sign up for health coverage for themselves and their families. Sane working hours for the most part. Provide a safe working environment to women faculty, staff and students alike.
Cons
NUST chronically underpays its faculty, below prevailing market rates, usually taking advantage of the fact that many faculty members are under contractual obligation to return to NUST or Pakistan after earning their PhD. However, the quality of incoming faculty in the pipeline is dropping. Some schools / colleges of NUST have been doing very well in recent years, thanks to the visionary leadership of their heads. However, a burst of recent and ongoing departures have changed that, and after a good number of years of excellent work, those schools / colleges are quickly slipping back to the level of mediocrity of NUST's other constituent institutes. The administration is almost entirely in the hands of retired armed forces personnel, who have no background in academia. Administration's priorities are often misaligned with those that would be considered vital at any significant university of the world. Poor planning and foresight abounds. Authority is highly centralized. Paper work for the slightest routine tasks are excessive and a nightmare. Procedures for the routine tasks keep changing on a monthly / annual basis.
3.0
19 Jun 2012
It is another army unit (Brigade) in disguise.. bent upon making/repeating follies.
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Nice and wide open space (thanks to military dictator, General Musharraf) Many wonderful people who joined ( the ranks) in a hope to move forward (progress) and prosperous, but, then a General took over and (we are dragging down), people start quitting...
Cons
-military mindset (which cannot be changed) - building this University thru mostly civil funds, but civilians are no ones
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