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Originally Posted by Code_Red
I doubt that.
We have always believe that IBA karachi is best Business school in pakistan, followed by LUMS.
The disciplnes offered at NUST, GiKi are Engineering based mostly so they cant be compared with LUMS.
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LUMS is currently ranked better than IBA
IBA was the first decent business school, with some great alliances. it was established in the 50s with support from Wharton. I believe for some time it also had some alliance with University of Southern California.
The institute was impoacted heavily starting in later part of the 80's and much of the 90's with the issues plaguing Karachi and its academic institutions.
It had to cut ties with Karacahu University in mid nineties because of that.
Things started stabilizing in late 90's and have been improving conmstantly, but there is a lot to be done.
The reason you think of IBA the way you do is how well its grads have done in Pakistan and internationally, it has a much richer heritage and history and stronger alumni base, so when we think of IBA thats what we think of and not the current academics.
you will find a huge difference of opinion about IBA from ppl who graduated in 80's or even early 90's than the ones who were there in mid-late 90's, and then the post 2000 crowd. ppl who graduated in early 90's had begun to see the drop in standards, the ones in mid nineties probably saw the place at its worst, and the ones in late 90's probably say it beginning to show some signs of revival, 2000 onwards it has been on course to reclaim its former glory.
lets see how well it does.