i)  They have passed the Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSC) examination and have secured at least 60 percent marks          (C-grade) from any recognized Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education in Pakistan or equivalent.

ii) They possess domicile and PRC (form C) of relevant category except admission under self-finance scheme and foreigners.

iii)  Candidates who were admitted previously in any batch/year in the University in any discipline or category are not eligible to apply for admission again and their application shall be rejected.

(iv) Candidates who apply for admission on the basis of fake certificates (detected before or after their admission), or make other false statements, shall be prosecuted under criminal law and their admissions shall be cancelled. In some cases, they may also be debarred for a period of three years from future admission.

(v) Those candidates, who were admitted to any other institute / university before applying for admission in Quaid-e-Awam University and were rusticated, debarred or their admission was cancelled, shall not be considered for admission in the University. Additionally, if candidates conceal information regarding such a disciplinary action and they were granted admission; their admission would be cancelled immediately after ascertaining such facts. Those candidates who have been convicted involving moral turpitude shall also not be considered for admission in the University.

(vi) The relevant provisions of other clauses described hereafter shall also apply.

i)  Only those candidates who have passed H.S.C. Examination (or equivalent) in pre-engineering group are eligible to apply for the engineering disciplines. However, they are also eligible to apply for BS(CS) , BS(IT) and BS(Mathematics).

ii)  Candidates who have passed their H.S.C. (or equivalent) examination with computer science as a subject are also eligible to apply for BS (IT) and BS(CS) Courses.

iii) Candidates who have secured at least +12 percent marks in Pre-admission test for all categories

iv)  Candidates who have passed H.S.S.C. examination (or equivalent) in pre-medical group are also eligible to apply for admission in BS(CS) Programme. However, they shall have to undertake a condensed Mathematics course before the first term. Preference would be given in admissions to those qualifying candidates who have passed HSC examination in Pre-Engineering Group, Computer Science Group and then Pre Medical Group. 

v)  Candidates who have passed Diploma of Associate Engineer (in the respective technology) from a recognized board of Technical Education are also eligible to apply for admission under category F (Table 9.1)

The candidates are required to submit the attested photostat copies of all the certificates as indicated in the application form.

i) All eligible candidates for Categories A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H,I,J and K(Table 5.1) shall compulsorily appear in the Pre-admission test to qualify for admission.

ii) A one–hour MCQ based test will be conducted in the following subjects:

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The merit list of the candidates for each district/category will be prepared by calculating the overall merit, based on the marks obtained in each of the following examinations and multiplying them with the respective weightage and adding the result up to calculate the Combined Merit Percentage  (CMP) as described below.

*Adjusted marks are the marks secured in HSC examination plus additional marks, if any, as defined in clause 5.6 minus marks to be deducted as defined in clause 5.7.

For example, if a student has secured 70 percent marks in SSC, 65 percent adjusted marks in HSC and 50 per cent marks in pre-admission test: his/her CMP would be given by:

CMP = 70*0.1+65*0.35+50*0.55 = 57.25 (per cent).

Marks sheet of SSC (Matriculation).
Marks sheet of HSC (Intermediate, Science).
Domicile Certificate of candidate/guardian.
PRC on ‘C?form of candidate.

The names of those candidates, who failed to appear for the interview before the Admission Committee on the scheduled date and time without any intimation and permission, shall be deleted from the merit list of the concerned district/category and they shall not be considered for admission. Interviews and admission letters are sent through Urgent Mail Service (UMS) under postal certificate. Any claim of non-receipt of such letters must be made within 10 days of interview/admission date. Any late claim would not be entertained and the decision of the Admission Committee shall be final. In fact, the candidates who are really interested in admission do keep in touch with the university authorities and their friends to get information in this regard. Thus their absence from the interview shall amount to forfeiture of their right of admission.

The Admission Committee may allow the change of priority of choices of disciplines given by the candidates in their application forms for cogent reasons only and on written request of the candidates at the time of the interview. NO SUCH CHANGE WOULD BE ALLOWED AFTER THE INTERVIEWS AT ANY STAGE

If a student is studying elsewhere he/she must clearly mention this fact in the application form. If he still wishes to be admitted in Quaid-e-Awam University, and his original documents are deposited elsewhere, he must mention this fact during the interview and must present the original documents to the Admission Committee within three days after he has been informed about the possibility of his admission, for which he must remain in touch with Registrar’s office. No claim would be entertained after this period and wrong information given by him/her would disqualify him/her from admission.

The Admission Committee has reserved right to change / rectify any entry in the preliminary / provisional merit list, if any error found before or after the display of such  list(s) on the notice board as well as on web site.

Distribution of seats for admissions is made strictly according to the rules framed for the purpose by the authorities of the University on population basis among the rural and urban areas for all the districts of Sindh province and as agreed between Quaid-e-Awam University and Mehran University in accordance with the distribution of the jurisdiction. This distribution has been updated and approved by the competent university authorities from time to time. The admission to candidates from various districts/categories will be given on quota basis for the urban and rural areas. However, the award of discipline shall be given on the basis of joint merit in the districts and Karachi Division as a whole. The number of seats allocated to each district (and their urban/rural areas) in various disciplines and for other categories is given in Table 5.1, while the number of seats for each district in Sindh province are shown in Table 5.2. In Tables 5.3, and 5.4, additional information is provided.

The University also offers courses in Computer Science BS(CS) 4-year duration evening programme (Category-H) and Information Technology BS(IT), 4-year full time morning programme (Category-G). The allocated seats for these programmes are shown in Table 5.1.

TABLE 5.1
DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS IN VARIOUS
ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES

 Total - A* (District-wise distribution)            Total allowable admissions = 584

Total-  B* (Distribution of Reserved seats)

TABLE 5.3

Description of remaining categories of candidates

seeking admission.

Legend:
CE   = Civil Engineering
ME  = Mechanical Engineering
CS   = Computer Systems Engineering
ES   = Electronic Engineering
EL   = Electrical Engineering
EE   = Energy & Environment Engineering

The candidates, who have a certificate of Hafiz-e-Quraan on printed form from a registered Madarissa and clear the test of Hifz taken in the University, are also considered to have additional 20 marks to bee added to the marks of HSC.

In case of a gap or repetition of HSC Examinations, the merit will be determined as described below.

 One percent of the aggregate marks will be deducted for each unaccounted for gap of one academic year after appearing in SSC-II examination from the total marks of the HSSC examination (passed) or equivalent, for the purpose of determination of merit in each District/Category. This deduction is applicable whether the SSC/HSSC examination had been repeated or the gap had occurred owing to any other reason. A maximum of unaccounted for gap of five years is allowed between year of appearing in SSC-II examination for the first time and year of admission. This shall not apply to admissions based on diploma of Associated Engineer.

Following shall be the procedure for admission based on the merit list prepared as stated in Clause 5.3.

a)                   In each District, the number of allocated seats and disciplines in rural and urban areas are filled according to their quota given above and in the descending order of CMP of the candidates.

b)                   Any saving from the urban area seats of any district will be given to the rural area of the same district and vice-versa.

c)                   Any savings from (Sindh) districts quota (cat. A) would be filled on all Sindh basis (excluding Karachi).

d)                  If some candidates fail to take admission offered to them within due date, the vacant seats shall be filled from the remaining candidates on merit and disciplines are re-assigned in the second list, third list and so on.

e)                   When a student is offered admission in a discipline, which is not his first choice, he may inform Chairman, Admission Committee in writing within 10 days of issuance of the list of admission, whether he wants to retain the assigned discipline; otherwise, his discipline may be reassigned as per sub-clause (d) above.  Such choice of retention of discipline can only be exercised once. 

All the eligible candidates who have applied for admission against the seats reserved under categories A to E, will be considered first for admission against the seats reserved for their respective districts under category-A. If a candidate who is selected against the district quota but is not getting the discipline of his/her choice, his/her seat and discipline of that district shall be transferred to the category applied for and he/she will be given priority on merit basis in that category.