PMAS-AAUR ranked at 2nd among the Pakistani Universities, 113th in Asia, and 340th among the World Universities

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi has been ranked at the 2nd among all Pakistan Universities as per latest UI GreenMetric World Universities ranking 2017 .

Overall the Arid Varsity has been ranked as 340thamong the top over 600 universities of the world and 113th in Asia with the total score of 4351 as per UI GreenMetric World Universities ranking.

UI's GreenMetric University Sustainability Ranking (Green Metric) is a world university ranking universities to assess and compare campus sustainability efforts. It is the only ranking that measures university commitment in developing 'Environmentally friendly' infrastructure. The ranking criteria for the universities including campus setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transportation and education.

At the international recognition of Arid Varsity, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Dr Sarwat N. Mirza has congratulated the faculty and staff of the university. He said, "This is the testimony that the quality of education, research and campus setting infrastructure has improved significantly. This achievement is an outcome of the new initiatives and the revolutionary steps introduced by the arid university for improving the educational standards and the dedicated hard work of the university faculty, research scholars, and the staff". He hoped that this institution go further up and join the rank of the top leading universities of the world in near future.

The Vice Chancellor especially appreciated the efforts and contribution by the Prof. Dr Riaz Ahmad, Director Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) of the University and the pivotal role played by the QEC team to boost the quality of education and research by changing the mindsets of the faculty, research scholars and staff.

The University of Agriculture Faisalabad ranked as 271st with a total score of 4613.The only four other Pakistani Universities ranked as: University of Lahore at 431st , Lahore University of Management Sciences at 485th , University of Karachi at 511th and International Islamic University Islamabad at 553rd among all World Universities ranked UI GreenMetric.