National Defence University The origin of the National Defence University (NDU) goes back to the year 1963, when the 1st Army War Course started at the Command and Staff College, Quetta. Subsequently , in 1971, a dedicated National Defence College was established at the old building of the National Assembly of Pakistan in Rawalpindi. In 1995, the National Defence College shifted to its present campus at the foothills of picturesque Margalla Hills of Islamabad http://www.ndu.edu.pk/
UET Taxila The history of learning at Taxila goes back into ancient times. Once center for learning philosophy, arts, religion and culture in great Ghandara civilization, Taxila is again proving to be a center for seeking knowledge. In ancient times Julian University was the center of excellence of that age; the renaissance in this modern age is the University of Engineering and Technology Taxila http://www.uettaxila.edu.pk/
Qurtaba University Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology is one of the pioneer private sector universities of North West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P) Pakistan. The university was established through a charter issued by the Governor N.W.F.P on 30th August 2001 and is recognized by the Higher Education commission (former UGC), Islamabad. http://www.qurtuba.edu.pk/