Thread by @Warwounded__

__Thread: History of NUST__
NUST, a university under administration of Pakistan Armed Forces and Ministery of Science & Technology was founded in 1991 for undergraduate education of commissioned military officers by combining military engineering colleges and schools of...

https://twitter.com/CattoBaaji/status/1404398143693807618

...Pakistan Armed Forces. Later, it was converted into a public research university with its main campus setup in Islamabad in 2008 (NUST H-12 Main Campus) to promote science and technology in Pakistan.

◾ Why a need was felt to establish a university called NUST for the officer ranks of Armed Forces (Army, Navy & PAF)?

After independence, training of officers of PAF, Army & Navy became one of the top priorities of armed forces. In 1947, Military College of Signals (MCS)...

...was established as School of Signals. A year later, in 1948, the School of Military Engineering (SME) was established at Sialkot to educate the officers of the Corps of Engineers in the field of engineering. In 1951, it was given the status of...

...college - Military College of Engineering (MCE) - and was shifted to its present location in Risalpur, KP. On 1 April 1957, EME School was established at Quetta and in 1969, it was given the status of college - College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (CEME) - and...

...civilian students were also admitted for education. In 1962, PNEC (Pakistan Navy Engineering College) was established in Karachi, Sindh. To train the members of the Pakistan Air Force, the College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE) was established at Korangi Creek, Karachi...

...in 1965. In 1976, the College of Medical Sciences was established as Army Medical College (AMC) and a year later in 1977 the first MBBS course started there. In the same year, School of Signals was upgraded to a college - Military College of Signals (MCS). In 1981, a BSc...

...program started at CEME giving it status of university & few years later in 1984, CEME moved to its current location in Rawalpindi from Quetta. In May 1986, CAE was shifted to the PAF Academy in Risalpur.

All these military colleges & schools functioned separately till 1991.

◾ Establishment of NUST:

NUST was established in 1991 by merging all military colleges and schools, and also some civil educational resources, in order to make these colleges a combined entity. After its development, existing military schools and colleges became...

...constituent colleges of NUST. The first college to be affiliated with NUST was MCS in 1991. In 1993, the university was granted a charter and CEME and MCE became part of the university. In December 1994 and November 1995, CAE and PNEC became constituents of NUST respectively.

All the constituent colleges were upgraded and MS programmes were started at CAE in September 1997. In 1998, MS programmes were started at PNEC and in the same year, Bachelor of Dental Surgery was started at AMC (Army Medical College).

◾ Establishment of NUST H-12 Campus:
In 2008, a new campus was developed in Islamabad H-12 called "NUST H-12 Main Campus". Some old colleges were shifted to this campus and new schools were developed such as School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Chemical...

...and Materials Engineering, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Research Center for Modeling and Simulation.

◾ Campuses of NUST

The current campuses of NUST are:
▪ NUST H-12 Campus (Main Headquarters), Islamabad
▪ College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (CEME), Rawalpindi
▪ Military College of Signals (MCS), Rawalpindi
▪ Military College of Engineering (MCE), Risalpur

▪ College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE), Risalpur
▪ Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC), Karachi
▪ NUST Balochistan Campus (NBC), Quetta

Tri-services military academies of Pakistan i.e PAF Academy, Pakistan Naval Academy (PNA) and Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) are also affiliated with NUST.