The government has decided to establish Comsats and Nust universities campuses in Karachi.
Media reports say the port city will also have Nutech (National University of Technology) campus.
Nutech, National University of Sciences and Technolgy (Nust) and Comsats are leading institutions of Pakistan in science and tech fields.
Established in 2017, Frontier Works Organization, a department of Pakistan Army, runs Nutech, a public institution.
Commission on Science and Technology for sustainable development in the South established Comsats in 1998. Its principal seat is in Islamabad while Lahore, Vehari, Sahiwal, Attock, Abbottabad and Attock have campuses.
Nust was established in 1991 with main campus in Islamabad.
Reports say the government in past made decisions to establish Comsats campuses in Sukkur, Gujar Khan and Dera Murad Jamali. However, these projects could not be materialized.
The government will spend over Rs five billion to establish Comsats campus in Karachi.
Minister for Education, Science and Technology Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has approved campuses establishment in the port city.
The government has yet to announce the date for fully functioning of these universities in the provincial capital of Sindh.
The minister says he has approved the establishment of three leading universities campuses for the benefit of the youth. The decision was made as per the vision of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he added.
Thousands of the students of Karachi will receive quality and modern education from these universities.
Sindh is considered backward in the literacy as compared to other provinces of Pakistan. Karachi is not meeting the standard of quality education due to multiple factors. Despite the biggest city in term of population, it has less leading educational institutions as compared to Lahore.
