THE World University Ranking Agency uses 13 performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons. The performance indicators are grouped into five areas: Teaching (30%), Research (30%), Citations (30%), International outlook (7.5%), and Industry income (2.5%). Seventeen universities from Pakistan participated in this category. UAF achieved the highest score in Teaching and Industry Income amongst the top four universities of the country. This year 1527 universities from 93 countries participated in this ranking system. UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Ashraf has congratulated the UAF community over this achievement. He said that they were ensuring tangible steps to further improve the position. Concrete measures were being taken to find its space in the world top-ranked 500 universities. He asked UAF scientists to come up with viable and adoptable solutions to the problems of the farming community society and industry. He said that agriculture was the backbone of our economy.
FAISALABAD September 4, 2020: The Governor/ Chancellor has appointed Prof Dr Asif Tanveer, Chairman Department of Agronomy and Director Academics UAF as Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Agriculture Faisalabad for a period of three years or till the age of superannuation which is earlier. Dr Asif Tanveer has a vast experience of teaching and research of 32 years. He has produced 14 PhDs and 105 MSc as the major supervisor. Whereas. He was the member supervisory committee for 21 PhDs scholars and 94 MSc. He has written 114 research papers of impact factor and 44 research papers without impact factors in the international journals. He is an author of five books. His citation number was standing at 3,758 with 905 impact factor citations. His research interests are in the field of both basic and applied research on weed biology, herbicide selectivity, allelopathy and weed control in field crops.