UniAssist is a structured directory of higher education in Pakistan. It covers the institutions recognised by the Higher Education Commission, the degrees they teach, the admission routes into them, and the accreditation that decides whether a qualification actually leads where a student expects.
What we cover
Every HEC-recognised university in Pakistan, the degree programmes they offer, and the relationship between the two — because a degree is not the same thing everywhere it is taught. Fees, entry requirements and professional accreditation all attach to a specific programme at a specific university, and that distinction is the reason this site is built the way it is.
How the data is sourced
Records come from primary sources: the Higher Education Commission’s register, the university’s own published pages and prospectuses, and the statutory councils that regulate individual professions — the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, the Pakistan Engineering Council, the Pakistan Bar Council.
We do not compile from other education portals. Aggregated data inherits the errors of whatever it was aggregated from, and those errors are remarkably persistent. The MDCAT is a good example: the figure repeated across much of the Pakistani education web is “200 marks, 60% to pass”. PMDC’s own published curriculum says 180 questions, with a pass mark of 55% for MBBS and 50% for BDS. The widely circulated version describes a format that no longer exists.
How records are verified
Every entity on this site carries the source it came from, the date it was retrieved and the date it was last verified. Where a figure could not be confirmed against a primary document, it is marked as unverified or left out rather than filled in with something plausible.
That principle costs coverage. Several universities block automated access to their own websites, and a good deal of Pakistani admission information is published as scanned PDFs and images rather than as data. Where we could not read a source, the entry says so instead of guessing.
What we deliberately do not do
- We do not rank universities. Any single ordering hides the trade-offs that actually decide a good choice — cost, location, accreditation, entry route, domicile quota. We give you the comparison and leave the judgement where it belongs.
- We do not publish fees without saying what they cover. A one-time admission charge and a whole-degree total look identical in a table and differ by an order of magnitude. Where the basis is unknown, the figure is not shown.
- We do not treat accreditation as a property of a degree title. Pakistan Engineering Council accreditation is granted to a specific programme on a specific campus. The same degree name can be accredited at one university and not at another, and that is exactly the kind of thing a student needs to be told.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we would rather know. Institutions and readers can reach us through the contact page. Corrections that can be checked against a primary source are applied and the record’s verification date updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does UniAssist get its data?
From primary sources — the Higher Education Commission register, universities' own published pages and prospectuses, and the statutory councils that regulate individual professions such as PMDC, PEC and the Pakistan Bar Council. We do not compile from other education portals, because aggregated data inherits the errors of its source.
Does UniAssist rank universities?
No. A single ranking hides the trade-offs that actually decide a good choice — cost, location, accreditation, entry route and domicile quota all pull in different directions. We publish the comparison and the verified facts behind it, and leave the judgement to the reader.
How current is the information?
Every record carries the date it was retrieved and last verified, shown on the page itself. Admission dates and fees change every cycle, so we treat the institution's own published page as authoritative and say so wherever a figure could go out of date.