Beaconhouse National University

Beaconhouse National University (BNU) is Pakistan’s first not-for-profit Liberal Arts University, founded in 2003 and was granted the degree awarding charter by the Government of the Punjab in 2005. 

The university comprises eight schools, each specialising in its own distinct discipline: Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts & Design (MDSVAD), Razia Hassan School of Architecture (RHSA), School of Media & Communication (SMC), School of Management Sciences (SMS), Seeta Majeed School of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences (SLASS), School of Computer & IT (SCIT), School of Education (SE), Institute of Psychology (IP).

The institution was established through significant donations from a number of benefactors including the Kasuri family, who donated $10 million through the MAK Trust, the Dawood family, Dr Parvez Hassan, Mr Izzat Majeed and the Government of Punjab, to name a few.

BNU’s mission is to foster empowered and impactful global citizens in a diverse, socially sensitive, cross-disciplinary, liberal arts environment. BNU retains its identity as an apolitical, equal-opportunity, truly national higher-education institution, fast-emerging as a world-class Liberal Arts university. It is BNU’s resolve that no eligible student is ever turned away from its doors for reasons of affordability; hence we have instituted generous need and merit-based scholarship programs both for fresh and enrolled students.

BNU prides itself in counting amongst its faculty visionary pedagogues, many renowned artists and designers, seasoned curators, international development experts, authors with published research and established practices, cutting across geo-cultural boundaries, and in sync with globally prevailing ideas and narratives.