The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology gets ranked the top university in Pakistan by times higher education under the quality of education category by reason of its educational and social impact, it was ranked on  30th position out of 966 universities worldwide.

 Times higher education is gold standard university ranking system that deals with higher education related issues and produces a list of rankings of universities worldwide- trusted by both parents and students.

 According to times higher education GIKI has been ranked as the top university of Pakistan for its social influence and contribution towards United Nations SDG.

GIKI is the only Pakistani university that has ever gotten ranked in top 50 universities under sustainable development goal 4. It was also one of the universities that got ranked in top 300 universities under the United Nations sustainable development goal 1.