Lahore College for Women
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| Motto | 'Discipline Ensures Success' |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1922 |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Dr. Rukhsana Kausar |
| Location | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Website | www.lcwu.edu.pk |
Lahore College for Women University (Urdu: لاہور کالج فار ویمن یونیورسٹی) is an independent women's university in Lahore, Pakistan, founded as a women's college in May 1922. One of the oldest female institutions of Pakistan, the university has 15,000 students and a teaching faculty of 450. It admits students at the intermediate, bachelors, master's, and Ph.D. levels. Established as an intermediate residential college, it was in a building on Hall Road, Lahore, with a strength of 60 students (25 of whom were boarders) and 13 staff members.
MoUs with national industries and links with foreign universities have been established in the fields of Pharmacy, Electronics, Environmental Science, Fine Arts, Economics and Mass Communication.
Lahore College for Women University has established a Research Center to provide students with facilities and services for advance research.
A higher education institution needs quality benchmarks in its key performance areas. To institutionalize the process of quality control, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has been established in the HEC.
In pursuance of the National Action Plan for performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation of institutions of higher education, a Quality Enhancement Cell was established in Lahore College for Women University.
HEC Digital Library is a program to provide researchers at public and private universities in Pakistan and non-profit research and development organizations with access to international scholarly literature based on electronic (online) delivery.
The main library of the university (Sciences, Computer Science and Arts) stocks books, magazines and publications as well as national newspapers.
Besides the main library there are seminar libraries in the post-graduate departments
There is a book bank maintained by the Social Work Department. Deserving and needy students are provided with textbooks.
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