[1] The Lahore School is a highly selective academic institution specializing in economics, business, social sciences, visual arts and design, environment and mathematics and statistics.

It has around 150 full-time faculty members, 2700 students across undergraduate programs and 400 across graduate and post-graduate programs Lahore School of Economics has been listed as one of the top 200 International Trade Programmes in the world (and the only one in Pakistan) as per the QS International Trade Rankings 2023 The values of Lahore School of Economics are "excellence, integrity, social responsibility, creativity, teamwork, humility and egality".

The Lahore School of Economics was founded in 1993 by Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, a Cambridge University alumni and economist who served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission from July 2000 to July 2003 and advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance Revenue and Planning from April to June 2013.

The Main Campus is located on the intersection of DHA Phase VI Main Boulevard and Burki Road, spread over 35 acres (140,000 m2) and houses The Lahore School's undergraduate programs, graduate programs and research centres as well as teaching and administration facilities, libraries, gymnasium, sports fields, a medical centre, multiple cafeterias and various other buildings.

The Lahore School provides 10 undergraduate majors and 26 pre-defined double-major and minor combinations with concentrations in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, Environmental Sciences, English, Political Science and Media Studies, Art and Design.