Education

slamabad boasts the highest literacy rate in Pakistan at 72.38%.^[2] It has some of Pakistan's major universities, including Quaid-i-Azam University, the International Islamic University, and the National University of Sciences and Technology.

Quaid-e-Azam University offers courses in a number of subjects. The institute is located in a semi-hilly area, east of the Secretariat buildings and near the base of Margala Hills. This Post-Graduate institute is spread over 1,500 acres (6 km²). Major buildings of the campus have been designed in such a way as to form an axial spine with the library in the center.

Other universities situated in Islamabad, other than those mentioned above, include the following:

• Air University
• Al-Huda University
• Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) distance education university covering all Pakistan and AJK
• Bahria University
• Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE)
• COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)
• Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology (FUUAST)
• Hamdard University
• National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences(FAST-NUCES)
• National University of Modern Languages (NUML)
• Institute of Space Technology
• Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP)
• Iqra University
• Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS)
• Riphah International University
• Shifa College of Medicine
• Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST)