The study is the empirical application of Gul and Jamal's (2021) Transfer of Knowledge Index. The study presents the ranking of 17 public sector HEI by categorizing them into High, Medium, and Low transfer of knowledge activity HEI. In the process of ranking the HEI based on the transfer of knowledge, the study also highlights several issues that hinder the recording of transfer of knowledge activity thus leading to the substandard performance of HEI on the given index. Data on seven dimensions subdivided into 86 items of the ToK index was collected and analyzed as per the 86 respective scoring criteria. The findings of the study show that none of the sampled HEI qualified to be the part of the High Transfer of Knowledge HEI, whereas 08 HEI were ranked medium ToK HEI and the remaining 09 were low ToK HEI. Non-availability of data, absence of a centralized database, and lack of knowledge about the transfer of knowledge operational activities were among the major challenges for the substandard performance of HEI.