Islamabad: Professor Dr Amir Mahmood, Dean, School of Business and International Lead Dean/ Provost (Parramatta City Campuses), Western Sydney University (WSU), Australia along with Ms. Sabeeh Qayyum, Country Director – Pakistan, Innovative Research Universities visited CUI on February 2, 2023. Mr. Ali Tawab Baloch, Head International welcomed and greeted the visitors in a friendly way and subsequently arranged a formal meeting with Prof. Dr. Sajid Qamar, Dean, Faculty of Sciences (Acting Rector) and Prof. Dr. Saqib Gulzar, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration. Prof. Dr. habil. Shamsul Qamar, In-charge Academics/ Acting Head, Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) also joined the meeting.
After introduction from both sides, the Head International Office made a detailed presentation of CUI and highlighted university’s major achievements, milestones, publications and rankings. Professor Mahmood revealed that he represented WSU’s Vice Chancellor's office for utilizing this visit in order to build up for WSU's high-level delegation visit to Pakistan later this year. For this, the two sides discussed about the possibilities of various collaboration prospects between the two institutions by initiating joint research programs in the first instance and other collaborative programs through an institutional memorandum of understanding in the future.
About Western Sydney University
Founded in 1989, the WSU was ranked 31 in the top 50 young universities worldwide by the 2022 THE Young Universities Ranking. Also having placed in the top two percent of universities globally in the 2022 THE University Ranking, Current student population is 49,200 including 6,300 international students. It has 11 campuses and alumni produced are 200,000+. The university is split into 13 schools as well as 13 highly accessible campuses across Sydney, 7 institutes, 12 centers and the subjects taught are Arts & Humanities, Law, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health, Business & Economics, Computer Science, Psychology and Education. (https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/)
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