Abstract :
The major purpose of this paper was to assess the quality of infrastructure in private sector of higher education in Pakistan by adopting descriptive method of research. The study was conducted at national level, the population of the study constituted 270 administrators, 6180 teachers and 61108 students in existing 54 private universities and degree awarding institutions of Pakistan. Method of cluster sampling was used to select the study sample of 840 people, which was carried out in two stages. At the first stage, 12 clusters of universities were randomly chosen out of the total population of private universities. At the second stage, 60 administrators, I80 teachers and 600 students were selected through random sampling procedure with five administrators, 15 teachers and 50 students from each selected cluster. Three questionnaires (one each for administrators, teachers and students), developed and refined through pre-testing, were used as measuring instruments to collect data. It was found in the study that all respondents expressed slightly negative opinion about the appropriateness of instructional facilities, relevance of the equipment to present and future needs of students and society and sufficiency of books/periodical available in the library.
