Student Life
University campus contains an academic block, a library, an IT building, a Pepsi-sponsored dining center (PDC), Executive Development Center, a mosque and a Sports complex. The Sports complex houses squash courts,a basketball court, badminton and table tennis facilities, a gym, a fitness room, a music room, a chess room, an art room, an EMS office, a doctor's clinic, a counsellor's office, etc. Hostels are segregated by sex.
LUMS students also take part in extracurricular activities such as managing academic conferences, hosting charity shows and debating events. Student societies, clubs, and associations help to meet the recreational and vocational needs of students, who also bring with them a rich blend of extracurricular interests.
LUMS Emergency Medical Services, in collaboration with Rescue 1122 Pakistan, is a proper university department which is organized, managed, and run by LUMS student volunteers who are trained and certified in First Aid and CPR to serve as First Responders to any campus medical emergency. By having an around the clock student EMS service, LUMS has joined the ranks of many leading universities in the US and elsewhere who offer such a facility to their campus communities. It is the first initiative of its kind in a Pakistani university, LUMS aims to spread this new system to all institutes and organizations across Pakistan.
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