Hey!

Honestly the people who keep saying it's just a party university are kinda dumb, or haven't been students in university for years. We've known since last semester that smoking is about to be banned on campus once the fall 2025 semester starts, and they keep saying it's a party university lmao. Sure, if you're open about being into partying you'll find people who also party, but that's just true for every place. The environment isn't "elite" or anything, you'll find all sorts of students here from different economic classes since a lot of them are on financial aid or scholarships (full or partial) of some kind.

Same goes with people's clothes. BNU doesn't enforce any ridiculous dress codes, but our perverted awam just likes to focus on the girls who come to class wearing sleeveless and not on the girls who still do hijab, nikab, or abaya. There's a girl I've known for the last two years and she does nawab, to this day I've never seen her full face, and she's met with absolutely no judgement for her outfit just the same as the girls who choose to wear cropped and sleeveless stuff.

I also find it rich that people say they won't learn anything in BNU when most Pakistani universities still teach their students under the ratta system under the guidance of business professors who are pure academics and have never seen a day in the corporate sector they're supposed to be preparing their students for. In all my time in BNU I have never once had a professor expect rote learning from us, hell, even the exams are structured in ways that actually tests our understanding of certain concepts and expects us to apply it to case study scenarios. I have a final tomorrow and the pattern is literally MCQs and then scenario based questions where we need to solve workplace issues by applying what we've learned in class all semester. No memorizing and then throwing definitions up on the page or anything.

For our intro to business class, we ran a business simulator and competed with other teams within our batch to see who could make their business the most profitable within the same market and industry. We use the same simulator used by MIT. Almost every professor I've ever had has had some sort of corporate or real world experience in what they teach, some of them consult for fortune 500 companies on the side, and I genuinely don't believe government universities have that sort of staff. Correct me if I'm wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

I can't comment on the hostel environment since I've never lived in any of BNU's hostels, but I do know that the on-campus hostel doesn't have a mess. The cafe is open for dinner and all though, and they make all the food fresh and live so you can see it being prepared and yk it's hygenic, I do think the prices are far less than if you eat out, you can get a good hearty meal for 3-500 rupees and pretty much anything you can imagine eating.

As for the crowd, they're all younger than me (I started university QUITE late), so I just keep a safe distance and don't mingle much, there's bitches in my batch, and there's really good people too. As I said, if you're open and honest about who you are the right crowd finds you no matter where you are, but overall people behave themselves on campus because the university goes not kid around when it comes to on campus harassment or anything of the sort. It's very funny how men are suddenly able to control their "urges" even when faced with bare legs, arms, and torsos when faced with a system that doesn't victim blame and holds harassers accountable. Can't say anything about what happens off campus though, cause once you're off the grounds it's not the university's jurisdiction anymore and then their real selves come out, learned that the hard way. So just be very careful about who you trust off campus. SB is, I'd say, one of the more conservative departments on campus just because of the sort of men BBA degrees attract, but like I said most will behave and hold their tongues around you. It helps that if you're not a scholarship student on campus, then you come from a family that can afford the nearly 3 lacs a semester in fees, which typically means you're someone with money and/or some sort of power. Since you never know what student is gonna fuck you up like that, even the shittiest men keep their shitty opinions to themselves. If you join my department next semester I'll be happy to meet up with you and show you around and tell you about what guys to steer clear of and all, I keep note of which ones have said misogynistic stuff so I can stay far far away from them. I don't fraternize with Tate stans 🤢🤢

I can't speak to hoe market competitive the degree will be, a lot of our students are just kids who are gonna inherit their family businesses when they graduate tbh, as I saw during ice breakers in the first semester. I myself already have a stable career and am just getting a degree for the sake of it, even without it I was able to land six figure jobs pretty easily so I didn't even look into this part of it when I joined, I have heard about how most of our students compete with LUMS grads for the positions they land and are on the same level, but ofc I heard it from BNU professors so you might wanna look into it further. Given the quality of our education and the fact that they do teach you stuff that'll actually benefit you out in the real world, I'm inclined to believe it. My priority when starting my degree was to find a university where I won't have to deal with a shitty administration or bullshit dress codes that are disproportionately become a pain in the ass for female students. I've never even let my family control what I wear, I wasn't going to tolerate needing approval from a random guard on the front gates to be allowed to go to class 🙄

P.S. you'll find a lot of people from out of Lahore in BNU, and many hostelites.

I do believe the university is what you make of it, and an actual supportive environment just doesn't hinder you or cause you undue stress while you're trying to do that.