Pakistan, June 15 -- Lahore's higher education landscape has long been defined by a handful of influential institutions that have shaped regional academic, professional and research discourse. For decades, universities such as LUMS, UMT, UCP, BNU and GCU have occupied distinct niches within the city's educational ecosystem, competing for academic prestige, faculty talent and student enrolment. It's an established fact that higher education aspirants and their parents massively focus on market-based perception of any university before taking admissions, and this is also an undeniable truth that an unseen race to malign a university's reputation is in vogue, whether it's a public or private educational institution. We have instances of Isla...