Lahore University of Management Sciences

Schools at LUMS

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

This school offers an exciting range of courses and programmes for students and an invigorating research environment for faculty. Students and academics with strong credentials and desire to pursue higher studies, teaching or research in economics, Social Sciences or Law would find the school of humanities and Social Sciences offering the most innovative teaching and research programmes in the south Asian region.

The Social Science Department

The social Sciences department, playing a vital role in the undergraduate programmes at LUMS, has over 25 full-time faculty members. The department also attracts considerable number of adjunct and visiting faculty from universities within Pakistan and abroad. In the last two years the department hosted visiting faculty from Monmouth College, Wilfred Laurier University, University of Calgary, Michigan State University and Seton Hall University. In recent years, PhD students from Princeton University, University of London and Melbourne University have been affiliated with the department for their research. The social Sciences department is a strong and exciting department offering diversity of courses in politics, philosophy, religion, sociology, anthropology, languages and literature.

The Economics Department

The economics department is keeping up with the growth in demand for the subject as a major at the undergraduate level as well as at the Master’s level, by increasing its number of faculty. Several new faculty members have joined the department including graduates from Cambridge, Yale, Warwick and Radboud (Netherlands). The number of full-time faculty in the department is now over fifteen. Visiting faculty from a number of international universities keep teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programmes offered by the department and this includes highly eminent professors from McGill University, Lakehead University, University of Delhi and the University of Kent. These international links have given further impetus to the strong research culture already existing at LUMS.

The Law and Policy Department

The Law and Policy department combines the richness of our liberal arts educations with a solid professional programme in law. Its pedagogical approach to law and Policy is analytical, critical and comparative, and high premium is placed on faculty research and policy output. In the space of three years the law faculty has attracted graduates from Harvard, Oxford, Michigan, British Columbia and the London School of Economics. The full time faculty includes Roger Normand, a former executive director of the Centre for Economic and Social Rights, New York. The department is in the process of developing academic and exchange linkages with several universities in the region. With the induction of more faculty and the launch of an LL.M, the Law and Policy department will evolve into a School of Law & Policy in few years.