Abstract :
The major purpose of this paper was to examine the quality of various aspects of higher education in private sector of Pakistan. The population of the study constituted 270 administrators, 6180 teachers and 61108 students in existing 54 private universities and degree awarding institutions of Pakistan. Multi stage random sampling procedure 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. At the second stage, 60 administrators, 180 teachers and 600 students were selected through random sampling procedure with five administrators, 15 teachers and 50 students from each selected cluster. Three questionnaires developed and refined through pre-testing, were used as measuring instruments to collect data. The researcher personally visited each university to collected data. The collected data was tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using ANOVA and t test technique .It was concluded that Male, experienced, permanent and more highly qualified administrators indicated favourable opinion about the quality of higher education, particularly quality of management and quality of curriculum. Male professors, teachers with higher qualification, experienced and permanent teachers evidenced more favourable opinion about the quality of higher education, especially the quality of institutions .Male students and those who enrolled in master degree programmes expressed more favourable opinion about the quality of higher education, especially about dimensions of quality of infrastructure, quality of faculty, quality of students, quality of curriculum and quality of institutions.
