Lahore University of Management Sciences

Lahore University of Management Sciences
Motto العلم سلامي
Type Private
Established 1984 (1984)
Endowment Rs. 710 Million ($ 7.2 Million)[1]
Vice-Chancellor Dr Sohail Naqvi
Undergraduates 2400
Postgraduates 1600
~15
Location Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Campus Urban, 100 acres (40 ha)
Colours Navy blue, charcoal, white            
Affiliations HEC, PEC
Website lums.edu.pk/index.php

The Lahore University of Management Sciences (or LUMS), is an independent research university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.[2][3] It was founded in 1984 by the patronage of the business–industrial community.[3][4]

The university has a student body of about 3,500 graduate and undergraduate students, a faculty of 200, most of them with PhDs from foreign institutions. Its campus spreads over a 100 acres where more than half its student population and more than half its faculty lives.[5][6][7] Its business school is one of two in Pakistan to be certified by the South Asian Quality Assurance System and is ranked as the top business education university in Pakistan.[8][9]

The university is a member of Association of Commonwealth Universities.[3][10] LUMS is ranked second in Pakistan in the QS University Rankings for the year 2014, 161st in Asia and among top 700 in the world.[11][12] LUMS is one of Pakistan's most expensive and selective universities.[13][14] All students are required to give SAT for undergraduate and GRE or GMATs for graduate admission. LUMS alumni include Pakistan's first female Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and computer scientist Dr. Umar Saif.[15]

History

The university was granted a charter by the government of Pakistan in March 1985. The LUMS Board of Trustees comprises 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 for the university's operation and maintenance.[16]

In 1986, a business school by the name of Lahore Business School was established for an MBA Programme. Later the school was renamed and is known as Suleman Dawood Business School.[17] After the construction of current campus, LUMS started undergraduate programmes in Economics and Computer Sciences in 1994. In 1996, the School of Arts and Science was introduced to oversee the undergraduate programmes.[17]

LUMS established the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law (SHSSL) to oversee the Social Sciences, Economics and Law departments. The School of Sciences and Engineering, for the disciplines of Mathematics, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, was established in 2008.[17]

Departments

The university consists of four schools, which are divided into departments.

Suleman Dawood School of Business

The Suleman Dawood School of Business was the first school established at LUMS in 1986. The school's curriculum was designed in partnership with Harvard Business School and the University of Western Ontario (UWO). The school offers full-time MBA, a week-end Executive MBA, a course-based PhD Management and Bachelor's programmes with majors in Accounting and Finance, and Management Science.[18]

Hostels

Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities, Social Sciences

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences consists of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Economics. DHSS offers several undergraduate degrees in Anthropology/Sociology, History, English, and Political Science, as well as a combined programme in Politics and Economics in conjunction with the Economics Department. The school also offers minors in related subject areas. Started in 1999, the Department of Humanities and Social Science is home to disciplines in the Social Science and Humanities including Anthropology and Sociology, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and History.[19]

The Economics Department offers a four year undergraduate programme in Economics (the first class graduated in 1997) as well as a graduate programme in Economics (the first class graduated in 2002). Economics is one of the most popular majors at tLUMS, and a significant percentage of the student body at LUMS studies Economics as a major, as part of a joint degree programme, or as a minor.[20]

Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering

David Miliband, then the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of UK at LUMS.

The LUMS School of Science and Engineering is a school within LUMS with undergraduate programs in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics; and graduate programs in Computer Science and Mathematics.[21] Taha Ahmed (Taha Bhai) was the founding Dean of the school. He fired the management committee of the university just six months after the beginning of the school. Ahmed Nayyar Hassan, formerly a Professor of EMT at the school, was the next dean, assuming office from 1 November 2011 till 2016 when he resigned under controversial circumstances.

Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law

The groundbreaking ceremony of LUMS' fourth school, Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, took place on Saturday, April 5, 2014 on campus. The chief guest at the ceremony was the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani. The law school has been named after (late) Shaikh Ahmad Hassan who had dedicated his life to educational excellence and public service.

The establishment of SAHSOL has grown out of the LUMS Department of Law and Policy, which has been functioning since 2004, offers a 5-year joint BA-LL.B undergraduate programme, accredited by the Pakistan Bar Council. The number of graduates of the school as of June 2013 were 93 and 221 were enrolled in the BA-LL.B programme.[22]

People

LUMS has 170 full-time faculty. Faculty/staff members include:

Notable alumni include:

Research

The Suleman Dawood School of Business has produced more than 600 case studies and has published one of Asia's leading case research journals. Case studies written at LUMS are now used in universities across the world, including MBA programs in other Pakistani universities. In 2011, a case study written by LUMS Professors Shazib Shaikh and Zahoor Hassan won the Ruth Greene Memorial Award of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA)for the best case written outside North America.[25] The LUMS School of Science and Engineering has published in international journals in Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In 2011 Professor Basit Yameen of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering won the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for his work on pi-conjugated polymers.[25][26]

Technology for People Initiative

Technology for People Initiative (TPI) is technology and design nonprofit centre at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan. It is focused on solving governance problems in the public sector through design thinking, prototyping and iteration. TPI's past and ongoing projects include evidence based policing for Lahore Police, CourtBeat for judicial courts, mapping rural Pakistan and the award-winning Bahawalpur Service Delivery Unit. The centre was founded in April 2012 with a seed grant from Google.org.[27]

Rausing Executive Development Centre, Lahore University of Management Sciences

REDC Placed under the aegis of the Suleman Dawood School of Business at LUMS, Rausing Executive Development Centre has been pioneering executive education in Pakistan. It is housed in a purpose built facility. From three0 programmes in 1989, REDC now lists 21 programmes in its annual calendar for Open Programmes and conducts 70 programmes every year inclusive of customized programmes.

Facility

The Lahore University of Management Sciences library provides services that include loans, online information searching, reference services, inter-library loan, document delivery, photocopying, viewing of audiovisual and microfilm materials, access to virtual collections and digital resources, CD-ROM and online searching. It has a collection of 350,000 volumes, 128,000 e-books and 35,000 e-Journals.[28][29] The library has a multidisciplinary wing (the Khalid Ishaq Wing) dedicated to jurist and scholar Khalid M. Ishaq, who donated 92,957 books from his collection to the library.[30]

Societies

National Outreach Programme

LUMS has launched a National Outreach Programme[17] to reach out to bright students from underprivileged areas of Pakistan. Under this initiative, induction of selected candidates into the academic programs will be facilitated by preparation for the University’s admission criteria and then by provision of full financial assistance to those who qualify. Many students are admitted in LUMS on the basis of NOP. There are also a number of scholarships which are offered on need/academic achievement basis. LUMS loan scheme covers 20%-100% of the tuition fee component of the student. LUMS loans are interest free.[31]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Finaincial Statement
  2. ↑ Google maps. "Address of LUMS". Google maps. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 LUMS University Press. "History of LUMS". LUMS University Press. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Ghani, Asma (11 September 2013). "3 Pakistani varsities ranked among world’s top 700". The Nation, Pakistan. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "HEC Rankings". 23 February 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Naeem, Waqas (5 July 2013). "quaid-e-azam-university-secures-top-slot-in-hec-university-rankings". Express Tribune. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  7. ↑ LUMS News (9 July 2013). "LUMS Tops Again in Business Education in the HEC Rankings". LUMS News. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "LUMS Ranked #1 Business University in Pakistan by HEC". lums.edu.pk. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  9. ↑ B-Schools Granted SAQS Accreditation
  10. ↑ "ACU members". ACU UK. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  11. ↑ LUMS Ranked Second in Pakistan in the QS World University Rankings 2014
  12. ↑ Here’s how 6 Pakistani universities ranked worldwide
  13. ↑ "LUMS, NUST and Aga Khan dominate HEC University Rankings 2013 - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
  14. ↑ "Page not found | Pakistan Today". Retrieved 2016-02-23.
  15. ↑ "3 Pakistani varsities ranked among world’s top 700". The Nation. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  16. ↑ http://www.originpakistan.com/careers/viewtopic.php?f=189&p=294
  17. 1 2 3 4 "The Tribune – Magazine section – Saturday Extra". Tribuneindia.com. 24 March 2007. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  18. ↑ shabbir.hussain. "History - SDSB | LUMS |". lums.edu.pk. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
  19. ↑ "Lahore University of Management Sciences and Art (LUMS)". Hss.lums.edu.pk. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  20. ↑ http://econ.lums.edu.pk
  21. ↑ "Lums Sse | About Sse". Sse.lums.edu.pk. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  22. ↑
  23. ↑ Sheikh, Shahzaib. "Bilal Khan talks about his acting stint,Lux Style Awards and new album". The News: Instep Today. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  24. ↑ "LUMS Alumna Afia Nathaniel's Film 'Dukhtar' Premieres at TIFF". Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  25. 1 2 https://web.archive.org/20111005232102/http://lums.edu.pk/news_detail.php?id=TlRJeA==. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ↑
  27. ↑ http://tribune.com.pk/story/366699/mapping-pakistan-lums-and-google-launch-tech-for-people-initiative/ April 2012
  28. ↑ http://www.lums.edu.pk/docs/lums_suppliment_25_years.pdf
  29. ↑ Archived 14 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  30. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090307113939/http://library.lums.edu.pk:80/kic/pages/collection.html. Archived from the original on 7 March 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  31. ↑ Archived 13 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine.

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