Degree Programs Offered:
i. Bachelors of Architecture (Regular)
• F.Sc, A Levels /Pre-Engineering.
• Intermediate with Physics, Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
• Minimum of 60% marks in Intermediate.
• Equivalence of A Level/ O Level for grades issued from IBCC must be attached.
• Aptitude Test
• Drawing Test
Duration: 5 years
Total Credit Hours: 183 (78, 105, 288)
ii. Bachelors of Architecture (Regular & Self Support)
• F.Sc, A Levels /Pre-Engineering.
• Intermediate with Physics, Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
• Minimum of 60% marks in Intermediate.
• Equivalence of A Level/ O Level for grades issued from IBCC must be attached.
• Aptitude Test
• Drawing Test
Duration: 4 years
Total Credit Hours: 130 (61,115,291)
iii. BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (LARC)
(4 Years non-Licensing Program)
Program Overview:
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (LARC) is a four-year, eight-semester undergraduate degree program offered by the Department of Architecture, Lahore College for Women University (DOA-LCWU), structured in accordance with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Undergraduate Education Policy V1.1. The program is conceived as a non-licensing academic degree focused on landscape design, ecological systems, environmental planning, public open spaces, urban landscapes, and the relationship between people, place, and natural systems. The program does not constitute a professional architectural or town-planning qualification for registration or licensing under the Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners (PCATP).
The LARC curriculum is founded on studio-based, research-informed, and interdisciplinary learning, integrating landscape design studios with landscape ecology, planting design, site engineering, landform and water systems, environmental sciences, urbanism, cultural landscapes, heritage, digital technologies, and professional practice. The curriculum is designed to develop the intellectual, creative, technical, ecological, and collaborative capacities required to understand and transform landscapes across scales—from intimate gardens and institutional campuses to neighbourhoods, public spaces, urban ecological networks, regional landscapes, and climate-vulnerable territories.
The program recognizes landscape as a dynamic and living system rather than simply an aesthetic setting. It therefore emphasizes the interaction of land, water, vegetation, climate, biodiversity, infrastructure, culture, mobility, and human behaviour in the making of resilient environments. Through evidence-based site analysis, fieldwork, mapping, environmental assessment, design experimentation, digital modelling, and iterative studio practice, students are trained to develop context-responsive and environmentally responsible landscape interventions.
Particular emphasis is placed on the contemporary challenges facing Pakistan and rapidly urbanizing regions, including climate change, heat stress, water scarcity, flooding, biodiversity loss, urbanization, ecological fragmentation, public-space inequity, and degradation of natural and cultural landscapes. The program encourages students to investigate landscape-based responses that promote resilience, regeneration, resource efficiency, and long-term environmental stewardship. This direction is also consistent with the interdisciplinary environmental emphasis visible in HEC's recent curriculum development, including climate science, ecosystem management, conservation, sustainability, and applied field learning.
The LARC at LCWU further advances the University's commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) by positioning landscape as an essential component of healthy, accessible, safe, culturally responsive, and socially inclusive environments. Students are encouraged to engage with community needs, local knowledge, cultural identity, gender-sensitive design considerations, universal accessibility, and the right to high-quality public landscapes.
Technology is positioned not merely as a representational tool but as an instrument for environmental analysis, scenario building, decision-making, design generation, and innovation. The program ultimately seeks to produce landscape thinkers, designers, researchers, environmental problem-solvers, and creative practitioners capable of contributing to multidisciplinary teams and to the planning, design, management, conservation, and regeneration of landscapes at local, national, and international levels.
iv. Postgraduate Diploma In Heritage Management (Evening)
Duration: 1 Year (Evening Program)
Total Credit Hours: 24
Structure: 2 Semesters
Admissions
Admissions will be conducted according to the academic policy approved by the University authorities. An aptitude test and a drawing test will be conducted for admissions to B.Arch. program.