1. Comsats
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) was established in 1998 as
a Center of Excellence of Commission on Science & Technology for Sustainable
Development in the South (COMSATS). Today CIIT is a leading public institute
of technology in Pakistan with an international reputation for scientific research.
Besides its principal campus at Islamabad, CIIT has six other fully functional
campuses in various other parts of the county and enrolls about 18,000 students in
fields including Engineering, Information Science & Technology, Basic and
Management Sciences, and Architecture and Planning. The Institute’s mission is
threefold: Research and Discovery, Teaching and Learning, and Outreach and
Public Service.
Environment
All the forces present in a society, constitute its environment.
Organizational environment
All the forces inside and outside the firm, constitute
the environment of organization.
Enviornment
Internal External

2. Internal environment
Forces inside organization and their action directly
effects the organization. e.g Management, Employees, shareholders etc. In the
same way in comsats such as Honor, Administration, Teachers, Investors. Partners
etc.
Administration Staff
Administration staff has direct effect on any
organization where it administrates. In the same way from Lahore campus of
comsats. Director Professors Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Bodla and incharge of campus
affairs Pr.Dr.Ashfaq Ahmad.
Investors/Partners
Partners or investors are also involved in internal
environment because they had direct effect on comsats progress.
Teachers
Teachers we may say that constitute the internal environment because
they are key blocks in making progress of any educational institute. Likewise in
comsats too.
External environment
It involves that external forces causes changing’s in
any organization no matter either of positive or negative nature.
Types
It has two main types
 Task or immediate environment
 General environment

3. Task or immediate environment
These are external forces that effects
the organization but you can can control them up to some extent. e.g. competitors,
customers, suppliers, local government, pressure groups. In the same way they
have specific effect on educational institutions.
Competitors
Competitors can indirectly effects organization of which they are
competitors. The competitors of Comsats are university of central Punjab, Caps,
Skans and Nust etc.if they do any action like they increase number of courses then
it’s understood comsats will have to increase the number of courses and facilities
etc Compete with their competitors.
Pressure groups
Pressure groups can be described as interest groups groups
or protest groups. The term pressure group is a very wide definition that does not
clearly distinguish between the groups that fall under the term.e.g
 Religious sects are pressure groups for comsats i.e when Qadyani student of
comsat torn sticker of quranic verse relating prophet Muhammad
 Higher education commission(HEC) you may that is pressure group for
comsats because HEC will not give approval to the degree of comsats unless
it fulfills the requirement of higher education commission.
Local media
Comsats give admission students on hefty fees.so people do
propaganda about this materialistic attitude of comsat.these lines are crucks of
article written by Zafar Alam Sarwar Where do we stand today? Why it is being
said across the country that the rich are turning richer and the poor poorer? What is
the answer? Change of system or something elsey that ! So this is how local media
effects comsats and we can say that it si a external factor effecting an educational
institution.

4. Student
Students are either customers or you may say that good willing
partners of an educational institutions. If their institution does not fulfill their
requirements, they will be disappointed, get frustrated and cause the disparagement
of the university and switch towards competitors.
customers
COMSATS Internet Services launches VPS service at Pak China
Business Forum, Islamabad, April 16, 2012.They need to satisfy their customers to
win market. Otherwise they may be switch towards their competitors.
General environment
These are external forces that effects less but equally
businesses of same nature. we can not control them. e.g. political forces, social
forces, economical forces, cultural forces, technical forces etc.
Political forces
Federal Minister for Education and Training Sheikh Waqas
Akram and Senator Abdul Nabi Bangash, Chairman, Senate Standing Committee
on Education and Training, have said that any funding from Higher Education
Commission (HEC) to private universities, including Lums and Comsats, will be
stopped forthwith as the fund should go to public-sector universities which cater
for the poor students also and not the universities which give admission on hefty
fees.From this action of HEC all private universities have effected,so we can say
that political forces are involved in General environment.
Technical forces
Technology is increasing day by day, we cannot control it
Except we should fulfill demands of time. If ,a new innovation is done in the world
of technology, we can not stop it from happening. So our organization or our
institution have to prepare for future challenges. e.g. If NUST,SKANS,SKAPS
introduces a new technology, its understood COMSATS will be effected. so we
can simply say that technical forces are also involved in General environment.

5. Economical forces
COMSATS is private university, it has to paid taxes but
if because of economical decline or some other economic factor Government
increases the rates of taxes,it will be a critical problem for all private sectors e.g.
universities etc.
Social and cultural forces
We are Pakistani people strongly religious,so
we also follow teachings of our religion ISLAM. This thing results in form of
LAW and then people take these things as code of life,in one word you may say
that tradition. All these things constitute society.e.g in our universities there is co-
education system, boys and girls study together and do many activities jointly like
presentations and final projects etc.Because of some very serious issues if we have
to diminish co-education imagine how will it be difficult for our universities. same
is the case with comsats.
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