Building great varsities: what LUMS, IIT and NUS teach us

Building great varsities: what LUMS, IIT and NUS teach us

In conversations about world-class universities, Pakistan often looks outward, yearning for a simple answer to a complex question: how do we build academic excellence? When we examine three of the most influential universities in our broader region - the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), and the National University of Singapore (NUS) - we do not see clones of the same institution. Instead…