Graduated as a mechanical engineer from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore in 1990. In 1993, was awarded the Government of Holland scholarship to pursue masters in Industrial engineering and Management at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. Later on, obtained an MBA degree from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).  In 2006, received the German (DAAD) scholarship to pursue PhD from the Department of Marketing at the Faculty of Business Administration at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Shahid interacted with faculty of NTU and delivered a lecture on importance of teaching entrepreneurship. He also shared his views on meaning full object oriented teaching and how to focus on student constructivist learning approach. At the end of the lecture, Dr. Tanveer Hussain, Rector NTU and Zafar Javed, Dean FET presented university souvenir to Dr. Shahid Qureshi.