Lahore School Need Based Financial Assistance and Merit Scholarships Programs

Saman Khan

The Lahore School’s Financial Assistance Committee has approved the following enhanced Needs Based Financial Assistance and Merit Scholarship Programs effective August 17, 2010:

I- Need Based Financial Assistance:

All students including 1st year students at the Lahore School may apply for Needs Based Financial Assistance. Demonstrated need to be supported by a completed Financial Assistance Form (available from the Financial Assistance Office). Following is the criteria to apply for these scholarships:

a) Student who have a CGPA of 3.5 and above may apply for 50% Needs Based Scholarship. Students will be required to maintain a CGPA of 3.5 to maintain their Need Based Scholarship. Students with CGPA between 3.49 and 3.0 will get a reduction in their Need Based Scholarship to 25%. Students with CGPA’s less than 3.0 will not be entitled to any Need Based Scholarship.

b) Students who have CGPA between 3.0 to 3.49 may apply for 25% Need Based Scholarships. If the CGPA drops below 3.0 the scholarship will be withdrawn.

c) Student whose father is deceased will be eligible to get a 25% special scholarship in addition to other Needs Based and Merit scholarships.

II- Merit Scholarships: 

a) All Board position holders and students with 3 A’s in i) Mathematics, ii) Business Studies or Accounting or Economics and iii) any other subject (excluding Urdu) if admitted into the Lahore School’s Undergraduate Programme will be offered 50% Major Merit Scholarships (which is equivalent to 50% of the total tuition fees for the term) for the first term of the undergraduate Programme which will continue for subsequent terms in the first year provided they maintain a CGPA of 3.75 at the end of each term. Major Merit Scholarship students with CGPA between 3.74 & 3.5 will only get a Scholarship of 25% and if the CGPA drops below 3.5, the scholarship will be withdrawn. A Major Merit Scholarships can be combined with all other scholarships including Need Based Scholarships to cover up to100% of Tuition Fees.

b) BSc. Hons. Graduates of the Lahore School of Economics who have attained a CGPA of 3.5 by the end of their Hons. degree, if admitted in to the Lahore School’s MSc, MS/MPhil Programmes will be eligible for 100% merit Scholarship on the total tuition fees for the term of the Masters Programme, which will continue for subsequent terms provided they maintain a CGPA of 3.0 at the end of each term.

c) BBA/BSc Hons. graduates of the Lahore School of Economics who have attained a CGPA of 3.75 and above by the end of their Hons. degree, if admitted in to the Lahore School’s MBA Programme will be eligible for 25% Major Merit Scholarship (which is equivalent to 25% of the total tuition fees for the term) for the 1st term of the Masters Programme, which will continue for subsequent terms provided they maintain a CGPA of 3.75 at the end of each term. Students with CGPA of less than 3.75 will not be entitled to the 25% Major Merit Scholarship.

d) All students enrolled in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the Undergraduate Programme who have a CGPA of 3.75and above and 2nd Year MBA students who have a CGPA of 3.5 and above may apply for a TAship and if such a TAship is granted the student will get 1 course fee waiver in the applicable Term. This will be in addition to all other scholarships.

e) All students enrolled in Undergraduate and Graduate Programmes attaining a GPA of 4.0 at the end of each term will get 1 course fee waiver in the subsequent term. This will be in addition to all other scholarships.

f) All students enrolled in the Undergraduate and Graduate Programmes attaining a CGPA of 4.0 will get two course fees waiver in the subsequent term. This will be in addition to all other scholarships.