Karachi: Approximately 3,066 successful graduates wearing black gowns and colourful scarves were presented degrees at the 25th convocation of NED University of Engineering and Technology on Tuesday.

Total 2,352 candidates were presented Bachelor’s degrees in 21 disciplines, 712 students were presented Master’s degrees in 23 disciplines whereas 2 candidates were awarded PhD degrees.


The university offers 29 undergraduate and 50 Master’s & doctoral programmes.


Almost 1,479 aspirants of the total graduates received their degrees at the convocation whereas 873 graduates were not present there.

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While addressing the parents, teachers, educationists as well as the aspirants at the convocation, the vice-chancellor of university, Prof Dr Muhammad Afzal Haque, said that NED will serve as a national centre of excellence along with the establishment of the Technology Park, which would definitely be a milestone in the city.

Haque said that the technology park, which has been constructed under government-private partnership, will be abstracting as a practical way to cross-fertilize business requirements and technological development in Karachi.

The main objective of the technology park would be to facilitate the production and commercialization of state-of-the-art technologies from different engineering fields and facilitating research and development actions, he said.

The vice chancellor moreover said that they are trying to make the university an entrepreneurially inspired institute.

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“We have put down all our energies into the formation of entrepreneurial ecosystem to fully permeate the campuses,” he added.

Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair, who is the chancellor of the university, did not attend the graduation ceremony.

This is the fifth consecutive convocation of varsity in which the chancellor was not present. Education Minister Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar was not present there as well. 

 

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