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Universities play a crucial role to educate societies. Students select high-quality educational institutes by vetting their ranking criteria for advancement in career and growth. Aim of this study is to evaluate research performance of nineteen major universities of Pakistan. The overall design of the study consists of reviewing relevant literature, elicitation of secondary data and quantitative analysis. This study uses Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) as a technique of investigation. The study has shown that Quaid-e- Azam University occupies top position whereas the University of Lahore comes on the nineteenth position. The ranking has been developed on the basis of selected criteria such as published research articles, the total number of citations, total documents counts (i.e. conference papers, reviews, letters, discussions, scripts in addition to journal articles published), citation impact total, article impact total and international collaborations. This study provides expedient cognizance to regulators, management, students, parents and other stakeholders at large. It could evaluate only nineteen universities on the basis of the limited number of selected criteria, future studies may consider a large number of institutions with a multitude of different criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]