BA (Honours) English

BA (Honours) English is a four-year undergraduate degree in literary study — offering training in close reading, contextual interpretation and critical thinking across Greek, British, American, African and world literatures, alongside language and writing.

What You’ll Study

Around 130 credit hours. Coursework spans literary history and periods, critical and literary theory, postcolonial and world literature, linguistics and language study, and academic and creative writing. The degree’s transferable core is the ability to read difficult material accurately, build an argument, and write clearly under scrutiny — skills that hold their value regardless of sector.

Career Scope in Pakistan

Graduates work in media and journalism, publishing and editing, content strategy and copywriting, corporate communications and public relations, advertising, education and teaching, and the development sector’s communications functions. English-language proficiency at a genuinely high standard remains a differentiator in Pakistan’s professional market, particularly in multinational and export-facing organisations.

Digital content, communications and marketing roles have expanded considerably, and graduates who add practical skills — digital marketing, SEO, video, design or data literacy — convert the degree into employment more quickly. Teaching and academia require postgraduate qualifications.

Admission Requirements

Intermediate or A-Levels (or an IBCC-certified equivalent), plus the admission test used by the university concerned — LUMS runs its own SAT-style paper-based test and also accepts SAT scores. Humanities and social science programmes generally weight writing and critical-reasoning ability heavily. Check each university’s admissions page for the current cycle.