The outgoing vice chancellor, Adil Najam, is expected to address the convocation. PHOTO: FILE
As many as 800 students of the Lahore University of Management Sciences will graduate on Saturday (today) from Suleman Dawood School of Business, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering and Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The convocation is to be held at the Syed Maratab Ali Sports Complex. It will be the university’s 25th convocation. Seven PhD candidates will receive their doctorate degrees.
This year, the keynote speaker is Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi, founder and director of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT). Dr Rizvi is a pioneer of organ transplantation in Pakistan. He also led a team of surgeons that conducted the first successful liver transplant on an infant in Pakistan in 2003.
A graduate dinner was held on Friday in honour of the outgoing classes. The recipients of the National Management Foundation Medals were announced at the ceremony. They will receive their awards today (Saturday) at the convocation ceremony.
The SDSB graduates who secured distinction in business subjects were presented 10 Corporate Gold medals at the graduate dinner. The Deans’ Honour List plaques were presented to 136 graduates, 111 undergraduates and 25 students of the graduate programmes.
The outgoing vice chancellor, Adil Najam, is expected to address the convocation. He will be stepping down on June 30, as per his announcement earlier in May.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2013.
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The question is not about quantity. How many of those 800 are placed locally or internationally?If so what is the average salary?
Dear editors,with respect i want to make a grand appeal that these branded institutions and there graduates should not be mentioned in news on a front like that, as it will really disgrace other educational institutions having people of same potential, the only difference is that they have lack of resources and not blessed with the environment as these people got in their lives. So praising only one university which has produced only 800 elite graduates in a country of almost 180 million people and having around 140 educational institutions is i think really an injustice to other thousands of graduates being given degrees at a same time. These kind of news headlines boost these people to become more of a celebrities in front of employers.This is a problem with this country that we have divided ourself in classes and with this bogus system how can we even imagine an economic development having opportunities of biased nature. I am not against this institution neither faced any personal hurdles because of them, just a normal Pakistani who want this system to be on track.
What is the average salary of a LUMS graduate ?
@UKP: Nice Joke.
A very brave performance by Dr Adil Najam today I must say. Was surrounded by the Board members and the sharks in the Deans who have firced him to leave LUMS and Pakistan and he kept thanking and oraising them and even made everyone clap for them and no teace of anger or anything. My respect for Adil Najam went up even more today.
CBM is Better than LUMS.
Its time LUMS should expand to set up a number of campuses in Pakistan now and may be abroad down the road. LUMS successful academic model is in place and there is a dire need to replicate the same in different parts of the country.
If foreign universities can offer Dubai campus, LUMS has the academic standing to do the same in Pakistan. Let the beacon of knowledge spread far and wide.
Very cute students, both boys n girls. Love em all.
I was at LUMS convocation today. Most inspiring even I have ever been in Pakistan/ God bless Pakistan, a great institution. The VC and the message of humility he gave was just great and I was giving prayers to him and LUMS from bottom of my heart. What a great message. Wish we have more people like him. Wish we had more LUMS
we are proud of the LUMS for improving the quality education is Pakistan. I wish that they can start in every province and government institutes, universities should be handed over to the LUMS management better future
LUMS u rock... lv u
Great Institute, more than 10,000 total graduates to date. Not a single merit admission rejected on the basis of lack of someone's inability to pay. 40% of the fee funded by LUMS and its donors. An institute for all Pakistanis!
all the best Pakistani lions.
Thank you LUMS for a great 4 years. Best of my life. And special thank to VC Dr Adil Najam for having put new life into the Univeristy. You inspire us Sir and when you were speaking today about why our humanity is even more important than our scholarship we all had tears in our eyes. Love LUMS forever.
I am always inspired whenever I hear the name of LUMS. It makes me proud that we have such universities in Pakistan as well, where they try everything to deliver quality education to not just rich, but under-privileged students as well. However I always wonder, why is no one else coming forward to establish universities that can challenge LUMS, you see a country with population of 180 Million needs more than just 1 LUMS. Beware LUMS, now you have a real competitor, in field of business education for now. KSBL-Karachi School for Business and Leadership. Now KBSL will be a trend setter in the country, soon InshAllah.
I am greatly inspired by the standards of education set by LUMS and especially their NOP system where unprivileged students are given full scholarship. Middle class students are also given partial financial assistance. Please help them by donating money. Hope to see Dr Jamshed as VC. All MBAs love him bcz he almost killed them in 1st semester ie trained them well to be future leaders
Well done LUMS, well done Dr Najam