A large number of students from Institute of Communication Studies from Punjab University are still waiting for their degrees to be recognized since 2004 from Government Bodies and Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.  The Punjab University is awarding MS Communication degree though but Higher Education has not recognized this degree and not by any other institute as well. Recently an incident came to our notice in which a student completed his MS in Communication planned to go abroad for higher studies asked Higher Education Commission whether his degree was recognized or not he was shocked to hear that there was no record of his degree available at HEC. According to HEC there is no such MS 2 year’s degree after the completion of 2 years Bachelors Program.

Then it was seen that a letter was written to the controller examination of University of Punjab by the authorities of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, the letter had explanation about the MS degree being equivalent to MPhil in Communication not to MSc Communication which should be revised by PU according to HEC. There are a large number of students whose degrees are still not verified from HEC, they urge higher authorities to take such actions to resolve this issue.