For the first time in LUMS history, a team from Pakistan has managed to break into the final round at the most prestigious global case competition: The Global Case Competition at Harvard University. The team, ranking as one of the Top 10 finalists out of a pool of 150+ submissions, managed to secure the position after competing with some of the best business schools around the world.
General Qamar Javed Bajwa engaged with around 80 students of LUMS as well as the faculty in a frank talk followed by a question and answer session that lasted over 6 hours yesterday. The Chief of the Army Staff answered tough questions of students, ensuring that every question was answered and most students left with nothing but praises for the COAS.
One of Pakistan’s leading universities, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has introduced for the first time, an academic program on Cryptocurrency. LUMS will use five million STX tokens (currently equivalent to about PKR 670 million or US $4.1 million) granted by Hiro to develop and build educational programmes that will enable faculty and students to research blockchain, cryptocurrencies, distributed-ledger technology and more.
From a waiter at a restaurant in Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to a university graduate of SZABIST himself, Ansar Ali’s story is a perfect example of the power of community and how little efforts can go a long way. Ansar, who had a liking for education, was forced to drop out from high school and work after his father’s sudden demise.
After a video of LUMS students partying at a resort in Malam Jaba went viral on social media, an FIR has reportedly been registered against the students and the hotel management for “spreading obscenity”. While many had enjoyed the viral clip, some social media users had said that male and female students dancing together was an un-Islamic act.
Pakistani student from Lahore has been declared the global winner by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) for scoring the highest marks among students from all over the world. Muhammad Abdullah appeared in the ACCA’s Strategic Business Reporting (SBR) examination in September. Abdullah is currently taking an ACCA-embedded BSc. in Accounting and Finance program at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has jumped up 60 points at the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2020 to stand at 190-200 in the world. LUMS is the only university in Pakistan to be in top 200 in the QS rankings, the most-widely read university rankings in the world. Apart from LUMS, NUST has also made to the list first
After ten years of planning, Pakistan’s biomechanics facility set up at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has secured ICC accreditation. PCB’s lab is sixth lab in world to be ICC-accredited, joining those in Brisbane, Chennai, Cardiff, Loughborough and Pretoria. The lab can carry out official bowling tests of international and domestic bowlers whose actions are reported as illegal.