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Admissions Undergraduates UPDATES ON UG ADMISSIONS

UPDATES ON UG ADMISSIONS

For Candidates of NET-2025

  • Registration for NET-2025 (Series-4) has been closed.
  • In light of PEC regulation No. PEC/EAD/49-GB/004/2024 dated 11 July 2024, NUST has designed an online self-paced mandatory Mathematics course of 8 weeks duration, for FSc Pre Medical students (who did not take additional math) and are applying for Engineering programs. The students applying for NET-2025 must complete the course before 25 Jul 2025 and must secure 60% marks to become part of the merit for Fall 2025 entry. To register for the course, please visit https://connected.nust.edu.pk/course/view.php?id=186. Such candidates will appear in NET-Engineering.
  • NUST is offering following programmes for the first time in Fall 2025:-
    • Computer Engineering at SEECS, Islamabad
    • BS Liberal Arts & Humanities at S3H, Islamabad
    • BS Computer Science at PNEC, Karachi (Subject to NCEAC approval)
  • Candidates having HSSC with Mathematics as one of the major subject will be eligible to apply for Computing Programmes (BS Computer Science, BS Data Science, BS Bioinformatics and BS Artificial Intelligence)
  • Candidates with FSc Pre-Medical / equivalent qualification enrolled in Computing Programmes without taking additional math exam have to clear deficient Mathematics courses of 6 credit hours, within one year.
  • In light of PEC regulation No. PEC/EAD/46-VCCM/Regulations/2023 dated 30 March 2023, students having combination of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Studies / Computer Science (ICS) or equivalent are eligible to apply for admission in all the Engineering programmes with a condition to clear Chemistry as a remedial subject / course in the 1st Semester after admission.
  • Foreign nationals (Non Pakistani) can also apply on the basis of NET in addition to ACT/SAT basis. For details, please visit International Students.
  • As per HEC directive, all candidates including Matric / FA / FSc Stream have to get their educational documents attested from Inter Boards Coordination Commission (IBCC), Pakistan before submitting the same to university at time of admission.

For Candidates of ACT / SAT basis

  • Candidates who have registered for ACT/SAT based application form have to provide ACT/SAT score as per following:-
Programmes ACT Score
Engineering For candidates taken ACT Exam before April 2025.

  • ACT Composite Score (Consisting of Maths, English, Reading and Science Portions) with minimum score of 25.

For candidates taking ACT Exam of April 2025 onwards.

  • ACT Composite Score (Consisting of Maths, English and Reading only) with minimum score of 25.
  • Science portion with minimum score of 25.
Computing Programmes 
BS Biotechnology / BS Food Science and Technology / BS Agriculture
BS Environmental Science
Architecture & Industrial Design
Natural Sciences ACT STEM Score (Minimum score to apply – 25)
Business Studies / Social Sciences / LLB 

SAT (Minimum score to apply in each subject – 550)

OR

For candidates taken ACT Exam before April 2025.

  • ACT Score of Maths, English and Reading (Minimum score to apply in each subject – 25)

For candidates taking ACT Exam of April 2025 onwards.

  • ACT Composite Score (Consisting of Maths, English and Reading only) with minimum score of 25.

NUST institutional code to receive ACT score is 2915.

NUST institutional code to receive SAT score is 2790.

          ACT / SAT scores are valid for two years. ACT superscore acceptable.