LUMS

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The Lahore University of Management Sciences( LUMS) 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 LUMS is one of the most highly ranked Pakistani universities amongst institutions that offer degrees in Business Management and Information Technology.

In just few years LUMS gained the status as as Pakistan top notch bussiness school with its hundreds of students around the world in top ranked universities and bussiness companies.LUMS to meet the needs of cutting edge technology in the world started a school of Science and Engineering which is the LUMS SSE is the first research-based private university in Pakistan.

LUMS SSE: Taking University Education in Science and Engineering to new heights in Pakistan

Research will play a defining role in its culture. The focus is to bring in research-active faculty from all over the world who can contribute to the advancement of knowledge through our PhD programs. This faculty will be pivotal in producing PhDs who are globally competitive in terms of their impact, and whose work spins off into knowledge-based companies in Pakistan and brings the hi-tech era to our economy. Research is so important that it will even permeate our undergraduate education and make it an inquiry based education, instead of one where facts are memorized out of text books.

Furthermore LUMS SSE is different from other science and engineering universities because it will concentrate initially only on a few key science and engineering disciplines at whose intersection most new discoveries and powerful new products will emerge. We have decided to start with Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics. Additional strategic disciplines may be added later. Therefore we are building this university from the ground up to teach the fundamentals of these key disciplines to all our undergraduates, and to promote inter-disciplinary research amongst our graduate students. There will be no boundaries within the institution; there will simply be clusters of people united by common interests. Today somebody who belongs to the physics cluster may decide tomorrow to move to an electrical engineering cluster. This will make it not only a unique university in Pakistan but probably in the world.

Once we have located the best minds for LUMS SSE and if we determine that they cannot afford our education, the trustees of LUMS and the management committee have given us the go ahead to pay for their education in varying degrees. In the extreme case we will pay for everything and even give the student money to live on the campus. However they must first pass our very high bar for admissions.

It is important to tell your readers that a science-based curriculum in the modern sense is very expensive, far more expensive than the curricula offered in the existing schools of LUMS. That is because from their very first year, our undergraduates will be using state-of-the art labs, and they will continue to have a quality lab experience through all their years. To keep these labs operational and updated requires a very large and continuous flow of funds. Therefore we will ask those who can afford to pay, to pay a fee that reflects the real cost. Those who cannot pay, we will find ways to bring them here; that is our responsibility.

At LUMS SSE, we have already formed a critical mass of some of the best Pakistani scientists, at various levels of their careers, whom we identified at some of the world’s great institutes. Even at this early stage in SSE’s development our faculty covers all the six key disciplines which I have described earlier. They are defining the curriculum and building up our research programs. However we are still small in numbers.

Here we are faced with the problem that Pakistan has produced very **few world class, hard-core scholars **who are research active in modern science and engineering and who aspire to faculty positions. That total pool is tiny. We have spent the last two years searching the world over through our networks, on the Internet and through a variety of other means, to locate these people, approach them and devise a means to bring them back here. To these people we will offer, also for the first time in Pakistan, the very privileged position of a faculty appointment on the tenure track. What that means is, to faculty members who, after working here for a few years or elsewhere, prove that they are exceptional teachers and world-class researchers who publish in the leading journals, we will offer lifetime contracts. Faculty on the tenure track will be assisted by other excellent individuals whose main contribution to LUMS SSE will be through teaching. In time we hope to increase this pool of high caliber individuals from our own students.

Read complete interview of Dr. Asad Abidi, Dean SSE here:

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/interview_deanabidi.htm

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Few 'Hard-Core'Scholars from Pool of SSE,LUMS

Asad Abidi
Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.S., University of California, Berkeley
B.Sc., Imperial College, London

Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree from Imperial College,
London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and
1981. He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984
as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development
Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been at the Electrical Engineering
Department of the University of California, Los Angeles where he is
Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard
Laboratories during 1989.

His research interests are in the design of CMOS RF integrated
circuits, high-speed analog circuits, and data converters.

Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990 and as General
Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary
of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991, and from
1992 to 1995 he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits. He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching
and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, and is co-recipient of the
Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State Circuits
Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award at the 1996
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack
Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997
ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation
Conference, and the 2001 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award. In
2007, the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science recognized
him with the Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching.

He has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE,
and was named one of the top ten contributors to the ISSCC. He is
the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-
State Circuits.

Dr. Abidi is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, only 2 Pakistanis yet have this position.

Asad Naqvi
Associate Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Research Interests:
String Theory

Asad Naqvi is currently a lecturer (assistant professor) at the
University of Wales, Swansea. He is a theoretical physicist with a
PhD from MIT in theoretical particle physics (specializing in string
theory); a BS with a double major in Physics and Electrical
Engineering from MIT; and school degrees from Karachi. After holding
post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Amsterdam, he joined the University of Wales, Swansea
in October 2005.

Salal Humair
Associate Professor, Engineering Systems & Operations Research
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B.S., University of Engineering & Technology (UET)

Research Interests :Supply Chains and Engineering Systems

Salal Humair currently works as a Principal Software Engineer at
Optiant, Inc. (Boston, MA), a technology startup founded at MIT and
focused on supply-chain design and optimization. He obtained his PhD
and MS in Operations Research from MIT, an MS in Civil Engineering
from MIT, and a BS in Civil Engineering from UET Lahore. His
Master's research was on formulating conceptual design as a
constraint satisfaction problem; doctoral research on yield
management for telecommunications and his current work is in supply
chain optimization. He has worked at CS First Boston, and interned
at GTE Laboratories, IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, Schlumberger
Austin Product Center, and Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories.
He has also had significant teaching experience during graduate
school as Head Teaching Assistant for a large undergraduate
computing course at MIT

Salman Ahsan
Visiting Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
B.S., University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Semiconductor Materials and Devices

Dr. Salman Ahsan did his PhD and MA in Electronic Materials and
Devices at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton
University and his BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania. His interests during graduate studies centered upon
the study of surface and interface properties of compound
semiconductors, particularly the ZnSe/GaAs interface due to its
importance in the development of a blue laser. He built Princeton's
first scanning tunneling microscope, a new technique at the time, as
the primary analysis tool for this work. At Princeton, he also
acquired several semesters of teaching experience as a preceptor
working with Prof. Daniel C. Tsui (Nobel laureate Physics, 1998).
His work experience includes brief stints at Drexelbrook Engineering
(as a summer intern), Philips Research Laboratories (part of
doctoral dissertation), the Center for Sensor Technologies (as an
NSF fellow) and Nova R&D, Inc. Prior to joining LUMS as the
Associate Project Director of the School of Science and Engineering,
he was with Linear Technology Corporation for ten years, a
semiconductor company specializing in analog integrated circuits, as
a process development, device and integration engineer and then as a
manager of yields and electrical test.

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**Fatima Waqas Khwaja
**Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, USA
B.Sc., Emory University, Atlanta, USA

Research Interests"
Translational Cancer Research; Biomarker Discovery through
Proteomics, Molecular Biology

Fatima Waqas Khwaja is currently a Jr. Research Scientist in the
Basic Science Laboratory at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital
and Research Center, a state of the art, non-profit, charity cancer
hospital in Pakistan. She received her Ph.D degree from Emory
University in 2006. She was a National Science Foundation fellow in
2003-2004 to develop problem-based curriculum in science for K-12
classrooms. She has special interest in teaching and has taught
undergraduat and graduate level courses at Emory University, Punjab
University and at LUMS.

Tasneem Zehra Hussain
Assistant Professor of Physics
School of Science and Engineering (SSE),
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),
Lahore

Tasneem Zehra Husain obtained a B.Sc from Kinnaird College, Lahore,
an M.Sc. in Physics from Quaid-e-Azam University and spent a year
doing post-graduate work in High Energy Physics at the Abdus Salam
International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) before going to
Stockholm University for her Ph.D. Tasneem then went on to join the
High Energy Theory Group at Harvard as a post-doctoral researcher.
She is currently interested in using methods of 11-dimensional
supergravity to arrive at a classification of the backgrounds that
arise when M-branes wrap supersymmetric cycles.

Tasneem has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has
presented her work at several national and international
conferences. Her awards have included the Vice Chancellor's gold
medal and the Phillip's gold medal at the Quaid-e-Azam university,
the Boswell medal for the best graduating science student from
Kinnaird College, and a couple of international awards for her
writing.Tasneem has represented Pakistan at the Meeting of Nobel Laureates
in Lindau, Germany and led the Pakistan team to the WYP Launch
Conference in Paris.

Tasneem is keenly interested in education and science
popularization. She designed Pakistan's logo for the World Year of
Physics (WYP) and was an active participant in the WYP Physics
Stories project, lead by Argonne National Laboratories.

In an effort to make contemporary theoretical physics accessible to
high-school students, Tasneem developed a series of animated
presentations which she then presented in front of several
audiences. She has taught at Kinnaird College, helped with training
Pakistan's team to the International Olympiads and is on the Board
of Directors of the Alif Laila Book Bus Society (a non-profit
educational institution catering primarily to under-privileged
children).

**Hassna R. Ramay
**Assistant Professor, Bioengineering , SSE,LUMS,Lahore
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.Sc., New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
B.Sc., Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences & Technology (GIKI)

Research Interests Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials,
Bionanotechnology and Cell Materials Interactions

Dr. Hassna Ramay received her Ph.D. in Biomaterials at the
Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of
Washington in 2004. She did her masters in Materials Sciences and
Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and
her Bachelors in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Ghulam
Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences and Technology. She worked as a
postdoctoral fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute,
University of Delaware. Her research focuses on fabrication of
biomaterials for tissue engineering applications.

Hamid Zaman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Enginnering,SSE,LUMS.
Jointly with UT at Austin.

Hamid Zaman is an Asst. Prof. in the Departments of Biomedical
Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology and member of Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry as well as Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences and of Center for Synthetic and Systems
Biology at UT Austin. He obtained his PhD from the Chemistry
Department at the University of Chicago, focusing on the protein
folding, dynamics and interactions. His current research focuses on
developing interdisciplinary tools to study interaction of cells
with extra-cellular matrices, particularly in cancer progression and
metastasis. He has developed new techniques, both theoretically and
experimentally to study this problem. Hamid has and continues to
publish extensively in highly prestigious international journals.
His research has been recognized broadly through various
international awards. In 2007, he was awarded the FEBS (Federation
of European Biochemical Societies) Young Investigator Award in
Matrix Biology, an award rarely given to anyone outside the European
Union. Recently, he was also named International Visiting Fellow at
the University of Sydney, Australia. His work on cell migration in
3D, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, was hailed world-wide as one of the major breakthroughs in
cancer in 2006. Prior to his position at UT Austin, Hamid was
Hermann and Margaret Sokol Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT
and was a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Graduate Fellow at the
University of Chicago during his Ph.D. During his undergraduate,
Hamid was also the awarded Alfred Crabaugh Outstanding Senior Award,
given to the best undergraduate student at the entire University.
More information about Hamid's work at UT Austin is available at

Zaman's Lab

zlabs.bme.utexas.edu.

Funny Pictures
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Fridoon Jawad Ahmad
Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Interests
Stem Cells Biography

Dr. Fridoon Ahmad received his Bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Genetics. He continued his education at the same university and earned a PhD. in cellular and molecular biology. He later joined Northwestern University and then Drexel University. His research interests include stem cell based therapy to repair damaged organs, cell architecture and force generation. He has published several research papers in prominent research journals and co authored Encyclopedia of Life Science (Macmillan Publishers, London). Dr. Fridoon currently also holds a HEC Foreign Faculty Professor position at King Edward Medical College.

Falak Sher
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
M.Sc., University of the Punjab, Lahore
Research Interests
Synthesis and Properties of Electronic and Magnetic Transition Metal Oxides

Dr. Falak Sher is working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the School of Science and Engineering (SSE), LUMS. Before this, he worked in the same capacity for three years at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, PIEAS, Islamabad. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests are in the field of synthesis and properties of interesting magnetic and electronic perovskite materials. He has a number of publications in the journals of international repute.

Faheem Hussain
Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Imperial College, London
M.Sc., Imperial College, London
B.Sc., University of London

Research Interests
Theoretical Physics

Dr. Faheem Hussain received his Ph.D. in 1966 in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College, London, working in Professor Abdus Salam’s group; he has undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Punjab and in Physics from the University of London. He was a Research associate at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago from 1966 to 1968; from 1968 he was on the faculty of the Department of Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University first as Associate Professor and then as Professor from 1985 till his departure from QAU in 1989; he was the Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1975 to 1977. He has also taught at the Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya, and has been a visiting professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, in Mainz, Germany. From 1990 to 2004, he worked as a Senior Staff Scientist at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. There he was originally involved in developing the High Energy Physics Diploma program. This very successful program helps train young graduates from the developing countries to start research in physics. He was in charge of the Office of External Activities of the Centre for six years. This office is concerned with helping physicists and mathematicians in the developing countries; through financial assistance for equipment, student grants, visiting scholars and the organization of scientific meetings. His research interests in physics have always been in theoretical elementary particle physics. Presently he is working in superstring theory, the physics of extra dimensions and non-commutative geometry. Professor Hussain has published extensively in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics. He has also published articles on the problems of scientific and technological development of the poor countries.

Zartash Afzal Uzmi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Interests
Restoration Routing and Traffic Engineering, Routing Protocols, Algorithms for Reliability in High Speed Communication Networks, Digital Switching and Transmission and Wireless Communication Systems

Zartash Uzmi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford 2002. His graduate research is on Multi-user Detection for CDMA systems in which he devised schemes and algorithms for practica implementation of multi-user detectors. He has held positions at Nokia Research center, Bell Laboratories, and Hewlett Packard Company. He is on LUMS faculty since 2002. Dr Uzmi has several international publications, including papers in IEEE Globecom and ICC.

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Can you just put a link to LUMS , instead of using GS resources for promoting the whole faculty ?

If you study or teach at LUMS , you should be smarter than that and know that it is not a good way to promote some institution.
What are you trying to achieve , my brother/sister ?

GS P H O T O G R A P H Y
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^^ I was about to say what Mirch said:D

bieng moti tazi pakistani
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lol ...Ask99 ... r u studin in ths uni ?????

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sorry it wasnt u who had opend ths thread …desert bird r u studin in ths uni ?

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LOL, now LUMS needs any promotion ! some knowledge should be better prior to such posting. Errrrr this list not include any doctor from Pakistan , that whats your surprise , these are bunch of ‘Patriotic Pakistanis’ and ceratianly two words not applicable to 10K’s AAPNA chunkies or step1 step2 residencies mongrers , cheers and enjoy the link :slight_smile:

http://extranet.lums.edu.pk/SSE/Lists/New%20Disciplines/SSEFacultyList.aspx

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All of this information is available to anyone who has internet access. This thread will be closed unless you are going to comment on the quality of education at the institution etc. or offer your personal opinions on LUMS.

Copying content from other sites with little or no value-added is not encouraged on GS.

Timepass-July 2012
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That is why I am surprised with your thread , LUMS does not need any promotion or any introduction , all educated Pakistanis and those who are in high school or above would know about it. If there was some achievement by LUMS , its student or faculty you are more than welcome to share , there is a brother , who is a Professor at LUMS , he frequently shares those achievements and makes us proud.
Oh wait , I guess you are that professor. No ?

Qabren, Parinde aur chawal
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from Post 1

The Lahore University of Management Sciences( LUMS) 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 LUMS is one of the most highly ranked Pakistani universities amongst institutions that offer degrees in Business Management and Information Technology.

In just few years LUMS gained the status as as Pakistan top notch bussiness school with its hundreds of students around the world in top ranked universities and bussiness companies.LUMS to meet the needs of cutting edge technology in the world started a school of Science and Engineering which is the LUMS SSE is the first research-based private university in Pakistan.

London olympics 2012
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Come on guys, someone opens one thread and ur all jumping at him. I wouldnt have bothered clicking on the link, but I did read a bit of it when it was right there to read. I've seen a lot of useless threads on GS going unnoticed.

It isnt about anyone who wants to read about something can go to the websites... by that logic, why post anything from the net here? whoevers interested can go looking for it. Its just a place where people share things that interest them and start a discussion, or maybe just have it there for others to read if someone wants to.... and hey I was impressed by the credentials I wouldnt have otherwise read.

Even if it was totally against GS policies, (I fail to see it in this case), I found Mirch's comments to be rude and unnecessarily harsh... and thats not on. We arent all fifth graders here... show some class. Maybe if you are a moderator YOU should be smarter than that. Calling them a brother/sister doesnt make you sound any more polite after telling them they are using GS resources to achieve some other motive and that if they were from LUMS, they should be smarter than that... You are insulting a person... so think before you speak next time.

If I was a new person who opened this thread with good intentions, but maybe not wholly according to the GS policies, and a moderator (who is supposed to be more mindful of this than any other maaja gamma on the site about these things) said that to me, I'd probably laugh, tell him/her to go screw him/herself, and leave.. thinking, what a bunch of idiots!

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Well the first para is lifted from Wikipedia:
Lahore University of Management Sciences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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That's the key Kaka... discussion forums are not meant for unidirectional broadcast messages but for multi-user interactions... and threads that just go on to flood information post after post from the same member get to be monotonous.

It is okay to "quote" information as long as the source is cited appropriately and the cited text is followed by the members own take on it to initiate a discussion with other members.

In this case, the post was simply copy-paste from other site(s) with very little value-added.

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it is good information and I have no problem reading about the good visiting patriotic professors LUMS is inviting to teach their students. Links with some brief information posting in the message is reasonable so everyone read and for more go through the links.
give some value to the copyrights act of different sites

It is Gup Shup so take it easy guys.

I thinks while we are discussing LUMS we should also talk about its community within the University and what is going on inside i mean drugs, sex (Sex & the City) lol

Life in the 1500's
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Its time when in mid 90's when there was very small funding and loans to students so only elite class of Lahore mainly from DHA side were its part and few students of this elite class involved in it. Just as you go to DHA side, some nasty clubs, restaurants etc but now about 70% of LUMS students belong to middle class which mostly not invole in such activities with a lot of funds, loans to deserving students. Also remember, on 3rd November 2007 when Musharraf took an illegal act ,sacked the judges, the students of LUMS came out on the street, faced the sticks of police, evevryday used to protest in GOR 1 outside Justice Ramday house and many thrown to police station jail also. At that time, there was a dead silence on Punjab Univerity, UET, KEMC, AIMC etc . Punjab University famous for its political resistance history and strong house of Jamat-i-Islami handed Imran Khan to Wahdat Road Police when Imran came to PU for protest. I prefer young girls of LUMS wearing jeans protesting on Lahore roads to these hypocrites of Jamata-i-Islami.

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I enjoyed reading it, I mean I know its on the web somewhere but maybe I wouldnt have stumbled upon it.

LUMS in my opinion overall is the best higher education school in the country, followed by NUST and GIKi. The only thing lacking was the choice of disiplines in the UG program, but they seem to have added electrical engineering recently. Anyone know how that program is like? I know the CS program is pretty good.

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^^

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/interview_deanabidi.htm

This is a strat of that school , i think from 6 October,2008 and first batch will be out in 2012. So at start less UG programs but as time pass , momentum will grow with hiring more faculty, more funds , more HEC support and new disciplines will be evident. It will be new blend, a new flavour something different from usual 4 years program courses offered by other universities. Something i found here

Recommended Curriculum for Eligibility to SSE

We believe that students who excel in a curriculum like the one listed below are well-suited for academic rigor of the programs offered at SSE:

4 years of Mathematics (including Calculus)
2 years of all basic sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics)
3 years of English (4 years recommended)

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/undergraduatemajors.htm](http://sse.lums.edu.pk/undergraduatemajors.htm)

Curriculum of LUMS SSE

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/ourcurriculum.htm

Textbooks of SSE LUMS

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/ourtextbooks.htm](http://sse.lums.edu.pk/ourtextbooks.htm)

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waisai, NUST should be at no. 1 :faizy: