Lahore University of Management Sciences

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Lahore University of Management Sciences

Shield of LUMS
Established 1984
Type Private
Vice-Chancellor Syed Zahoor Hassan
Faculty Approx 125
Undergraduates Approx 2000
Postgraduates Approx 200
Doctoral students 15+
Location Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Campus Urban, 100 acres
Website www.lums.edu.pk
The Main Entrance.
The Main Entrance.
LUMS at Night.
LUMS at Night.
The LUMS Library.
The LUMS Library.
Hostels.
Hostels.

The Lahore University of Management Sciences, usually referred to by its acronym LUMS, is a university located in Lahore, Pakistan.

LUMS was established by industrialists and people belonging to Pakistan's leading private and public sector corporations, with the goal of developing an institution that would not only provide rigorous academic and intellectual training to Pakistani students and scholars, but also make available state-of-the-art research facilities, which would be comparable to leading universities around the world. According to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (the HEC), LUMS is the most highly ranked Pakistani university amongst institutions that offer degrees in Business Management and Information Technology.[1].

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[edit] History

The university was granted a charter by the Government of Pakistan in March 1985. The LUMS Board of Trustees, comprises leading members of the domestic business community, academics, and government representatives. The principal functions of the board are to set policy guidelines and to review the operations of the university. The Board of Governors, as the sponsor of LUMS, raises funds necessary for the university's operation and maintenance. Many board members are representatives of the business community and form a crucial link between the university and the Pakistani business world.

[edit] Organization

  • Suleman Dawood School of Business

The Business School was the first school established at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in 1986, following a growing recognition that Pakistan needed good managers to meet the challenges of the future. The principal goals of the school include an original and innovative curriculum, a high-quality student intake, and a motivated and qualified faculty.

  • School of Humanities and Sciences

The School of Humanities and Sciences offers the BSc (Honours) program, the BA\LLB program, the MSc Economics program, the MS Computer Science and MS Computer Engineering programs. In addition to this it also offers Doctoral programs in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Mathematics.

  • School of Science and Engineering

The School of Science and Engineering is a faculty expected to start in the fall of 2008.

  • School of Law and Policy

The School of Law and Policy will be established with the expansion of the Department of Law and Policy currently under the School of Humanities and Sciences at a later stage.

[edit] Faculty

The LUMS faculty includes PhDs from some of the best universities in the world, including Stanford, MIT, the University of California, Berkeley,University of Manchester, McGill University,University of Wisconsin-Madison,University of Pennsylvania, Loughborough University,University of Toronto,University of Texas at Austin,University College London,Imperial College London,National University of Singapore,Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Harvard University. The faculty currently includes three Rhodes Scholars.

[edit] Research at LUMS

Graduate-level students are associated with research labs related with their course work. Every year a significant amount of research work done as a collaboration between LUMS faculty and students gets published in international and national conferences.

[edit] International recognition

LUMS is an internationally recognized institute with its graduates recruited by companies such as Sun Microsystems, BP, Shell, Deloitte, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, IBM, Bank of America, AOL, Microsoft, and Ernst & Young. The school's reputation seems to have spread beyond just domestic applicants though, as a large number of applications also come in from the Middle East, theFar East, Central Asia, and other parts of South Asia.

[edit] Student life

The university campus contains an academic block, a library, an IT building, a Pepsi-sponsored dining center (PDC), Executive Development Center, a mosque and a Sports complex. The Sports complex houses world class squash courts,a basketball court, badminton and table tennis facilities, a gym, a fitness room, a music room, a chess room, an art room, etc. Hostels are segregated, with exclusive male and female residential arrangements.

LUMS students also take part in extra-curricular activities such as managing academic conferences, hosting charity shows and debating events. Student societies, clubs, and associations help to meet the recreational and vocational needs of students, who also bring with them a rich blend of extra-curricular interests.

[edit] Student Societies

[edit] LUMS Student Council

The student council of the university has been formed to promote and safeguard the interests of the student body as effectively as possible. The student council has been envisaged as a body that will aim to address the concerns of LUMS students, act to promote and ensure accountability within student societies, and behave as a consultative body in conjunction with the university's administration, particularly with regard to those matters and decisions that directly pertain to the student body. The council aims to achieve the above objectives without holding any sort of political platform, and is not to be used to advocate political interests of any kind.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ HEC University Ranking
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