Lahore University of Management Sciences

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is a private, not-for-profit research university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, incorporated in 1984 and granted a charter by the Government of Pakistan in 1985, and it is widely regarded as one of the country's foremost modern universities, built on a philosophy of "Learning Without Borders" and placed joint 608th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.拉合尔管理科学大学（简称 LUMS）是位于巴基斯坦旁遮普省拉合尔的一所私立非营利研究型大学，1984 年注册、1985 年获巴基斯坦政府颁授特许状，以「无边界学习」为办学理念，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 608 位。

With about 5,457 students and 300 faculty as of 2025, the university operates a single 100-acre campus in Lahore and comprises five schools, and its research output recorded by OpenAlex stands at 6,924 works with 203,747 citations.截至 2025 年，全校约有 5457 名学生与 300 名教师，设有五所学院，共用一座占地 100 英亩的拉合尔校区；OpenAlex 记录的科研产出为 6924 篇论文、203747 次被引。

History

• In 1984 the industrialist Syed Babar Ali, then a leading figure in Pakistan's business community, recognised a severe shortage of qualified managers in the country and proposed creating a world-class university able to attract and retain the highest calibre of students and faculty.1984 年，实业家赛义德·巴巴尔·阿里察觉到巴基斯坦严重缺乏合格管理人才，提议创办一所能够吸引并留住一流师生的世界水准大学。
• He shared the idea with his close friend and fellow businessman Abdul Razak Dawood, who gave it full support, and the institution was incorporated in 1984 before receiving its charter from the Government of Pakistan in 1985.他把这一构想告诉挚友、同为实业家的阿卜杜勒·拉扎克·达乌德，并获得其全力支持；学校于 1984 年完成注册，1985 年获巴基斯坦政府颁授特许状。
• The National Management Foundation was created as the sponsoring body of the university, while a Board of Trustees drawn from business, academia and government was made responsible for broad policy guidelines and oversight of operations.全国管理基金会作为学校的赞助机构成立，由商界、学界与政府人士组成的董事会负责制定总体政策方针并监督学校运营。
• In 1986 the university established its first school, the Lahore Business School, to deliver an MBA programme, and it was later renamed and is today known as the Suleman Dawood School of Business.1986 年，学校成立第一所学院——拉合尔商学院，开办工商管理硕士（MBA）课程；该院后来更名，即今日的苏莱曼·达乌德商学院。
• After the current campus was built, LUMS launched undergraduate programmes in Economics and Computer Science in 1994, marking the beginning of its liberal arts undergraduate model.现任校区建成后，学校于 1994 年开设经济学与计算机科学本科课程，标志其博雅教育式本科模式的起步。
• The School of Arts and Sciences was introduced in 1996 to oversee the growing undergraduate programmes, and the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law was later created to house the social sciences, economics and law departments.1996 年设立文理学院以统辖不断扩大的本科课程，随后又成立人文社会科学与法学院，容纳社会科学、经济学与法学各系。
• The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences began teaching in 1999, while the Economics department's first undergraduate class graduated in 1997, followed by its first graduate class in 2002.人文与社会科学系于 1999 年开始授课；经济系首届本科生 1997 年毕业，首届研究生 2002 年毕业。
• In 2001 LUMS launched the National Outreach Programme to reach bright students from underprivileged areas, preparing selected candidates for admission and then providing full financial assistance to those who qualified.2001 年，学校启动「全国外展计划」，面向欠发达地区的优秀学生，先为入选者提供入学备考支持，再为达标者提供全额资助。
• By 2016 more than 800 scholars had benefited from the National Outreach Programme, and in 2017 the Shahid Hussain Foundation established scholarships for international undergraduate students from SAARC member countries.到 2016 年，已有 800 余名学子受益于全国外展计划；2017 年，沙希德·侯赛因基金会为南亚区域合作联盟成员国的国际本科生设立奖学金。
• The university's law teaching grew out of a Department of Law and Policy that had been functioning since 2004 and offered a five-year joint BA-LL.B programme accredited by the Pakistan Bar Council.学校的法学教育源于 2004 年起运作的法律与政策系，开设经巴基斯坦律师公会认证的五年制法律学士（BA-LL.B）双学位课程。
• The groundbreaking ceremony for the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, LUMS's fourth school, took place on 5 April 2014, with the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, as chief guest.2014 年 4 月 5 日，学校第四所学院——谢赫·艾哈迈德·哈桑法学院举行奠基仪式，时任巴基斯坦首席大法官塔萨杜克·侯赛因·吉拉尼担任主礼嘉宾。
• The Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering was established in 2008, giving the university dedicated capacity in mathematics, computer science and the natural sciences.2008 年成立赛义德·巴巴尔·阿里科学与工程学院，使学校在数学、计算机科学与自然科学方面具备专门办学力量。
• On 6 January 2017 LUMS announced its fifth school, the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education, after an exploratory phase begun in October 2015 with funding from the Babar Ali Foundation.2017 年 1 月 6 日，学校宣布成立第五所学院——赛义德·艾赫桑·阿里与赛义德·马拉提卜·阿里教育学院；此前自 2015 年 10 月起在巴巴尔·阿里基金会资助下开展筹建探索。
• From 2020 the university moved undergraduate tuition to a credit-based fee structure, and for the 2021-22 academic year the per-credit-hour fee stood at 23,760 rupees.自 2020 年起，学校将本科学费改为按学分计费；2021—2022 学年的每学分学费为 23760 卢比。
• LUMS states that it has disbursed 11.6 billion rupees in financial assistance since its inception, with roughly 25 per cent of the student body receiving some form of aid each year.校方表示，自建校以来已发放 116 亿卢比的助学资金，每年约有 25% 的学生获得某种形式的资助。
• During the 2015-16 academic year alone the university disbursed more than 500 million rupees as financial aid, and it runs interest-free loan schemes covering 20 to 100 per cent of tuition.仅 2015—2016 学年，学校就发放了逾 5 亿卢比的助学金，并设有覆盖学费 20% 至 100% 的无息贷款计划。
• Between 2010 and 2014 LUMS spent 680 million rupees, about 6.5 million US dollars, on research, during which its faculty published 1,287 research papers and received 80 external grants.2010 至 2014 年间，学校在科研上投入 6.8 亿卢比（约 650 万美元），期间教师发表论文 1287 篇、获得 80 项外部资助。
• The university is approved as a not-for-profit organisation under the Income Tax Ordinance of 2001, and donations made to it qualify for a tax credit under the same ordinance.学校依 2001 年《所得税条例》获批为非营利机构，向其捐赠可依同一条例享受税收抵免。
• During the coronavirus pandemic, the Suleman Dawood School of Business introduced a hybrid class structure on 14 November 2020 to balance safety against instruction quality.新冠疫情期间，苏莱曼·达乌德商学院于 2020 年 11 月 14 日引入混合式教学安排，以兼顾防疫安全与教学质量。
• The university has grown to a community of 22,794 alumni and maintains an alumni network of more than 14,000 members active in private and public life.学校校友已达 22794 人，并维持着一个逾 1.4 万名成员、活跃于公私各界的校友网络。
• LUMS began in a challenging regulatory period for private higher education in Pakistan and expanded through successive schools added between 1986 and 2017, steadily widening its offering from business into the liberal arts, engineering, law and education.学校起步于巴基斯坦私立高等教育监管并不宽松的时期，其学院在 1986 至 2017 年间陆续增设，办学范围由商科逐步扩展到博雅人文、工程、法学与教育。

Academics

• LUMS is organised into five schools and, according to the university, offers 21 undergraduate majors and 26 graduate degrees across its faculties.学校设五所学院，据校方称共开设 21 个本科专业与 26 个研究生学位项目。
• The Suleman Dawood School of Business was the university's first school, and its curriculum was designed in partnership with Harvard Business School and the Ivey Business School.苏莱曼·达乌德商学院是学校最早的学院，其课程体系与哈佛商学院、毅伟商学院合作设计。
• The business school offers a full-time MBA, a weekend Executive MBA, a course-based PhD in Management, and bachelor's programmes in Accounting and Finance and in Management Science, along with minors in public management and computational finance.该商学院开设全日制 MBA、周末高管 MBA、课程型管理学博士，以及会计金融与管理科学本科项目，并提供公共管理与计算金融辅修。
• The Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences comprises a Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and a Department of Economics.穆什塔克·艾哈迈德·古尔马尼人文社会科学学院下设人文与社会科学系以及经济系。
• The humanities department offers undergraduate degrees in anthropology and sociology, history, English and political science, together with minors in Urdu literature and religious studies.人文系开设人类学与社会学、历史学、英语、政治学等本科专业，并提供乌尔都语文学、宗教学等辅修。
• Economics is one of the most popular majors at LUMS, with a significant share of students taking it as a major, as part of a joint degree or as a minor.经济学是学校最受欢迎的专业之一，相当比例的学生将其作为主修、联合学位的一部分或辅修。
• The Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering is modelled on an MIT "no boundaries" approach and offers undergraduate programmes in biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics and physics.赛义德·巴巴尔·阿里科学与工程学院借鉴麻省理工学院「无边界」模式，开设生物、化学、化学工程、计算机科学、电气工程、数学与物理等本科专业。
• A large majority of the science school's BS graduates proceed to leading graduate and doctoral programmes at institutions such as ETH Zurich, MIT, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Stanford and Dartmouth College.该理科学院绝大多数本科毕业生升入苏黎世联邦理工学院、麻省理工学院、康奈尔、加州大学伯克利分校、斯坦福与达特茅斯学院等院校深造。
• The Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law offers a five-year joint BA-LL.B undergraduate degree accredited by the Pakistan Bar Council and houses a moot court modelled on the courtroom of the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court.谢赫·艾哈迈德·哈桑法学院开设经巴基斯坦律师公会认证的五年制法律学士双学位，并设有仿拉合尔高等法院首席大法官法庭的模拟法庭。
• The Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education hosts an MPhil in Education Leadership and Management together with a minor in education for undergraduates.赛义德·艾赫桑·阿里与赛义德·马拉提卜·阿里教育学院开办教育领导与管理硕士（MPhil）课程，并为本科生提供教育学辅修。
• The university has more than 200 full-time faculty members and, as of 2025, a faculty of about 300 of whom nearly three-quarters hold doctoral degrees.学校有 200 余名全职教师；截至 2025 年教师约 300 人，其中近四分之三拥有博士学位。
• The Office of Sponsored Programmes and Research promotes and coordinates research activity across the university, and LUMS publishes the Asian Journal of Management Cases with Sage Publishing.受资助项目与研究办公室负责统筹与推动全校科研工作；学校还与赛吉出版社合作出版《亚洲管理案例杂志》。
• The Suleman Dawood School of Business has produced more than 600 case studies, and case studies written at LUMS are now used in universities around the world, including MBA programmes elsewhere in Pakistan.苏莱曼·达乌德商学院已编写逾 600 个案例，校内撰写的案例现被世界各地高校采用，包括巴基斯坦其他院校的 MBA 项目。
• Named research centres at LUMS include the Centre for Water Informatics and Technology, the LUMS Energy Institute, the National Centre in Big Data and Cloud Computing and the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre.学校设有多个具名研究中心，包括水信息与技术中心、LUMS 能源研究所、国家大数据与云计算中心以及马赫布卜·哈克研究中心。
• The Technology for People Initiative, a technology and design non-profit centre, was founded in April 2012 with a seed grant from Google.org and works on public-sector governance projects.技术与设计非营利中心「为民科技倡议」于 2012 年 4 月成立，初期获 Google.org 种子资助，致力于公共部门治理项目。
• The Rausing Executive Development Centre, housed within the Suleman Dawood School of Business, grew from three open programmes in 1989 to 21 programmes in its annual calendar and conducts about 70 programmes a year including customised courses.隶属苏莱曼·达乌德商学院的劳辛高管发展中心，由 1989 年的 3 个公开课程发展到年度日历上的 21 个课程，每年开设含定制课程在内约 70 个课程。

Campus

• The university occupies a single 100-acre campus in Lahore, where more than half of the student body lives in residence.学校在拉合尔拥有单一校区，占地 100 英亩，逾半数学生住校。
• The oldest building is the two-storey Academic Block, designed by the architect Habib Fida Ali, which covers 150,000 square feet and houses the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences.最古老的建筑是由建筑师哈比卜·菲达·阿里设计的两层教学楼「学术楼」，面积 15 万平方英尺，现为人文社会科学学院院舍。
• The five-storey Suleman Dawood School of Business building covers 160,000 square feet and accommodates more than 1,300 students.五层的苏莱曼·达乌德商学院大楼面积 16 万平方英尺，可容纳 1300 余名学生。
• The Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering occupies a five-storey building of 300,000 square feet that includes a 10-megawatt electrical grid station and 20 research laboratories, with a National Incubation Centre in its basement.赛义德·巴巴尔·阿里科学与工程学院所在五层大楼面积 30 万平方英尺，内设 10 兆瓦变电设施与 20 个研究实验室，地下一层为国家孵化中心。
• The campus includes seven male and five female hostels, and a new female hostel funded with 350 million rupees from the Syed Babar Ali Foundation was built to accommodate an additional 504 students.校区设七座男生宿舍与五座女生宿舍；由赛义德·巴巴尔·阿里基金会出资 3.5 亿卢比新建的女生宿舍可再容纳 504 名学生。
• The Syed Maratib Ali Sports Complex provides facilities for basketball, tennis, cricket and squash, while the Coca-Cola Aquatic Centre, funded by a 22-million-rupee grant from the Coca-Cola Company, contains an Olympic-size swimming pool.赛义德·马拉提卜·阿里体育中心提供篮球、网球、板球与壁球设施；可口可乐公司资助 2200 万卢比建成的可口可乐水上中心设有奥运规格泳池。
• The Pepsi Dining Centre, funded by PepsiCo, covers 14,000 square feet, and the library holds 350,000 volumes together with 128,000 e-books and 35,000 e-journals.由百事公司出资的百事餐饮中心面积 1.4 万平方英尺；图书馆藏书 35 万册，另有电子书 12.8 万种、电子期刊 3.5 万种。
• The library's Khalid Ishaq Wing, dedicated to the jurist and scholar Khalid M. Ishaq, houses the 92,957 books he donated, while the campus animal welfare society cares for the university's resident cats.图书馆的哈立德·伊沙克专区纪念法学家与学者哈立德·M·伊沙克，收藏其捐赠的 92957 册图书；校园动物福利社则照料校内常驻的猫群。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings, LUMS was placed joint 608th, making it the highest-placed university in Pakistan.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校并列第 608 位，为巴基斯坦排名最高的大学。^[1]
• The university appears in the 1001-1200 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名的 1001—1200 区间。
• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities ranking, LUMS is listed at 1,298th, and it was not included in the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2026—2027 年《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中学校位列第 1298 位；2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未将其列入。
• In 2020 the university was ranked 40th globally in the Times Higher Education "World's Best Small Universities" list, the only Pakistani university to appear.2020 年，学校在泰晤士高等教育「全球最佳小型大学」榜单中位列世界第 40 名，是唯一上榜的巴基斯坦高校。
• QS ranked LUMS as the top university in Pakistan for 2016, 111th in Asia and among the world's top 700, and placed it among the global top 250 for business and top 400 for mathematics.在 QS 2016 年榜单中，学校为巴基斯坦第一、亚洲第 111 位、世界前 700 之列，商科进入全球前 250、数学进入全球前 400。
• Its business school is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and is one of only two business schools in Pakistan certified by the South Asian Quality Assurance System.其商学院获国际商学院协会（AACSB）认证，也是巴基斯坦仅有的两所通过南亚质量保障体系认证的商学院之一。
• LUMS is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and maintains research linkages with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others.学校是英联邦大学协会成员，并与哈佛大学、麻省理工学院等保持科研合作。
• OpenAlex records 6,924 research works and 203,747 citations associated with the university, reflecting its research-intensive character.OpenAlex 记录该校共发表科研论文 6924 篇、获被引 203747 次，体现其研究密集型特征。
• The biomechanics laboratory at LUMS is the sixth International Cricket Council-accredited cricket testing laboratory in the world, following those in Brisbane, Chennai, Loughborough and Pretoria.学校的生物力学实验室是全球第六个获国际板球理事会认证的板球动作检测实验室，此前认证的设在布里斯班、金奈、拉夫堡与比勒陀利亚。

Student life

• LUMS describes its guiding philosophy as "Learning Without Borders" and its core values as merit, academic freedom, excellence, integrity, tolerance and diversity.学校以「无边界学习」为核心理念，并将唯才是举、学术自由、追求卓越、诚信、包容与多元列为核心价值观。
• The university hosts 37 student societies, ranging from the Music Society of LUMS and the Dramatics Society, known as Dramaline, to the LUMS Law and Politics Society and the Feminist Society, known as FEMSOC.学校有 37 个学生社团，涵盖 LUMS 音乐社、戏剧社（Dramaline）、法律与政治社以及女性主义社（FEMSOC）等。
• LUMS Model United Nations and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers LUMS Student Chapter are among the university's best-known student organisations.LUMS 模拟联合国与电气电子工程师学会 LUMS 学生分会是校内最知名的学生组织之一。
• The LUMS Daily Student serves as a student-run news outlet, while the LUMS Arts Society and the LUMS Community Service Society organise campus cultural and outreach activities.《LUMS 每日学生报》由学生自主运营；LUMS 艺术社与社区服务社则组织校园文化与公益活动。
• LUMS Emergency Medical Services, established in 2008-09 with technical assistance from Rescue 1122, is described by the university as Pakistan's first student-managed emergency medical service on a university campus.LUMS 紧急医疗服务队于 2008—2009 年在 Rescue 1122 技术协助下成立，校方称其为巴基斯坦首个由学生管理的大学校园急救服务。
• Because more than half of the student body lives on campus, residential life centres on the hostel community and on the sports, dining and aquatic facilities clustered around the academic core.由于逾半数学生住校，校园生活以宿舍社群以及环绕教学区分布的体育、餐饮与水上设施为中心。
• The Rizq LUMS Society is the university chapter of the social enterprise Rizq, which was itself founded by LUMS alumni, and it runs food-waste redistribution initiatives.Rizq LUMS 社是社会企业 Rizq 的校内分会，该企业本身由 LUMS 校友创办，社团开展减少食物浪费与再分配的公益行动。
• The university's National Outreach Programme, launched in 2001, doubles as a flagship access programme, with many students admitted to LUMS on the basis of the NOP.学校 2001 年启动的全国外展计划同时是旗舰性的招生扶助项目，许多学生正是通过 NOP 进入 LUMS 就读。

Notable people

• The university was founded on the vision of Syed Babar Ali, its Founding Pro Chancellor, who remains closely associated with the institution, and of Abdul Razak Dawood, its Pro Chancellor.学校源于其创始校监赛义德·巴巴尔·阿里与校监阿卜杜勒·拉扎克·达乌德的构想，前者至今仍与学校保持密切关系。
• The university's governance is shaped by figures such as Shahid Hussain, who serves as Rector, and by its Vice Chancellor, Dr. Ali Cheema.学校治理由担任教务长的沙希德·侯赛因等人物塑造，现任校长（Vice Chancellor）为阿里·奇马博士。
• The physicist Amer Iqbal, holder of a PhD from MIT, is known for his work on string theory and supersymmetric gauge theories and has taught at LUMS.拥有麻省理工学院博士学位的物理学家阿米尔·伊克巴尔以弦论与超对称规范场论研究著称，曾在校任教。
• Asad Abidi, an electrical engineer with a PhD from Berkeley, holds the inaugural Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS.拥有伯克利博士学位的电气工程师阿萨德·阿比迪出任学校首任阿卜杜勒·萨拉姆讲席教授。
• The historian Ayesha Jalal, educated at Cambridge, has served as visiting faculty in history, while the mathematician and statistician Arif Zaman, a Stanford graduate, is known for his work in statistics and computer science.毕业于剑桥的历史学家艾莎·贾拉勒曾任历史学访问教授；斯坦福出身的数学与统计学家阿里夫·扎曼则以其统计与计算机科学研究著称。
• Among LUMS alumni are Hina Rabbani Khar, a former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, and Aleema Khanum, an MBA graduate of the class of 1989.校友包括巴基斯坦前外交部长希娜·拉巴尼·哈尔，以及 1989 届 MBA 毕业生阿莉玛·哈努姆。
• Umar Saif, a computer scientist and former chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board, is a LUMS alumnus who later served as Pakistan's federal minister for information technology.计算机科学家、旁遮普省信息技术委员会前主席乌马尔·赛义夫是 LUMS 校友，后曾任巴基斯坦联邦信息技术部长。
• Muneeb Ali, who earned a BSc in Computer Science from LUMS in 2003 and later a PhD at Princeton, founded Stacks, an open-source blockchain network for decentralised applications and smart contracts.穆尼卜·阿里 2003 年毕业于 LUMS 计算机科学专业、后获普林斯顿博士学位，创办了面向去中心化应用与智能合约的开源区块链网络 Stacks。
• The filmmaker Saim Sadiq, writer and director of "Joyland", the first Pakistani feature film selected for the Cannes Film Festival's official selection, won the Orizzonti Best Short Film award at the 2019 Venice Film Festival for "Darling".电影人赛姆·萨迪克执导的《乐土》（Joyland）是首部入选戛纳电影节官方单元的巴基斯坦剧情长片；其短片《Darling》获 2019 年威尼斯电影节地平线单元最佳短片奖。
• The producer Momina Duraid received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for her contributions to Pakistan's drama and film industry, and Luqman Ali Afzal, founder of the Monal Group, received the Pride of Performance award.制作人莫米娜·杜拉伊德因对巴基斯坦影视戏剧业的贡献获颁「卓越勋章」（Tamgha-e-Imtiaz）；莫纳尔集团创办人卢克曼·阿里·阿夫扎尔获「表演荣耀奖」（Pride of Performance）。