LUMS University

Campus

LUMS has a beautifully landscaped campus, spread over 100 acres, with world class facilities. The University provides a single site for teaching, administration and recreation in an incredible atmosphere with superb convenience and safety for all students. The campus is equipped with all modern facilities easily accessible to students and has been carefully planned to create an environment conducive to learning.

Academic Block

A large two-tiered building, the Academic Block, has a covered area of 150,000 square feet. It comprises a cluster of semi-independent modules assembled around a central courtyard. Some of the main facilities include classrooms, auditoriums, discussion rooms, conference rooms and offices.

Library

The LUMS Library is the first automated library of Pakistan that provides excellent services and facilities to fulfil the information needs of its clients. The library is equipped with state-of-the-art systems and technologies. It has a collection of over 52,000 volumes comprising printed and electronic information sources. The library aims to encourage and support the academic and research activities of LUMS faculty, staff and students. It provides a full range of services that include book loans, online information searching, reference services, inter-library loan, document delivery, photocopying, viewing of audiovisual and microfilm materials, access to virtual collections & digital resources, CD-ROM & online searching etc.

Information Systems and Technology (IST)

Teaching and learning at LUMS has always been rigorous, challenging, and technology-intensive. The Information Systems and Technology (IST) supports academic and administrative computing systems and spearheads IT-initiatives to ensure adequacy of the technology infrastructure. LUMS offers a rich and diverse computing environment that effectively meets the productivity requirements of its students, faculty and staff. Each day, the LUMS community plugs-in to the campus LAN via 1200 access points spread across computing labs, academic units, student hostels, faculty residences, and the library. Those who are off-campus have secure, web-based access to on-line course support services such as enrollment, assignments and grades, message boards and e-mail. The campus network is based on a high-speed fiber backbone with Gigabit uplinks and dedicated high-end servers and switches.