LUMS Meets HEC Standards for Graduate Programme Review - Press Release issued by Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Lahore -- January 30, 2019 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press release issued by Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

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Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), a division working under Higher Education Commission (HEC) visited LUMS on January 25, 2019 for an external programme review of MS, MPhil and PhD programmes offered at the University. HEC regularly reviews the graduate programmes to promote and enhance quality of the degrees offered at the institution. The purpose of this visit was to ensure that LUMS is offering all the graduate degrees in compliance with the HEC minimal criteria.

Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) at LUMS worked effectively with all academic and administrative departments for over 6-8 months and gathered the data required by the HEC for this purpose. The updated data sheets including the information regarding enrolled students, graduated students and faculty were shared with the HEC prior to the visit.

The one-day external review visit of HEC was centered around the programme review data that was collected and shared by QEC. The Dean and Director of Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Dr. Farrukh Iqbal, headed the activity, while the other panel members included the following educationists:

1. Dr. S. M. Usman Ali, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi

2. Dr. Jamil Ahmad, The Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences, Quetta

3. Mr. Muhammad Ali Baig, HEC QAA

QEC successfully executed the entire process. Manager QEC presented the introductory...