Avail best opportunity to advance your career in engineering at Punjabi University-HoD
Gurjit Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Patiala
One of the largest government-funded institutions of higher learning in the region, Punjabi University, Patiala, is providing exceptionally outstanding multi-disciplinary education through 65 teaching and research departments on its campus in addition to more than 300 affiliated and constituent colleges, regional centres, and neighbourhood campus.
The University stands out as far as its engineering courses are concerned. All of the AICTE-approved engineering programmes, including B.Tech.andM.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering; Electronics and Communication Engineering; Electronics & Computers Engineering; Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering have been a big attraction among students with meritorious ones vying for each other to get a seat. Just to check the overall sliding down trend of students preferring greener pastures abroad, Punjabi University has taken quite a few initiatives ensuring quality education which till this time has been its mainstay. Punjabi University, having done exceedingly well on the parameters of quality in higher education, prescribed by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). It’s only due to this reason that the NAAC has awarded the University ‘Five Star’ grade in the first cycle (2002-07) and ‘A’ grade in the second (2008-13) and the third (2016-23) cycles.Its engineering labs are equipped with the latest equipment to give best training to the students along with newly started IELTS and spoken English training courses to train the students aspiring to go abroad after completing their courses here.
For the furtherance of this cause, Punjabi University has signed MoUs with many renowned foreign universities like University of British Columbia, Northern British Columbia, Fraser Valley, Kwantlen University College (Canada); University of Wisconsin Parkside, Wilkes University, University of Missouri, University of California (USA); and University of Wolverhamplon, University of Highlands and Islands (UK).Punjabi University too has been a natural home for the germination and cross-pollination of ideas and a knowledge cluster in partnership with neighbouring institutions of higher learning, industry and civil society.
Its qualified and experienced faculty, best infrastructure, low fee structure, lucrative job placements, entrepreneurship and start-up programmes, alluring and pleasant ambience, youth and sports activities have always remained the stronghold and lifeblood of this university. The University has established a career hub and entrepreneurship cell for enhancing the employability chances of its committed students imbued with critical thinking, scientific temper and humane, secular and ethical values.
Punjabi University has been giving top priority to the engineering stream of its multi-faculty institution, even as its engineering departments have been striving to scale higher elevations. The Engineering block, partaking 14 acres of the 316 acre of the University land,houses such facilities Wi-Fi access, fully-equipped laboratories, computer and informatics centre, workshops, administrative offices, hostels – one each for the boys and girls with a capacity of 400 each.
A constant active interaction with the industry is promoted by holding regular extension lectures with the help of technical experts from the industry and frequent visits of the students to the industry, assigning field and project work to the students, regular participation of students in competitions and events and organization of workshops and seminars on various themes. The University offers various welfare programmes for the students including, merit and outstanding sports-person scholarships, low-income-based fee waiver scheme etc.
The admissions for the current academic session to all the engineering courses are open up to August 14, 2019 on the basis of first come first serve. The candidates interested in seeking admissions in various engineering programmes can visit the Punjabi University website www.pupadmissions.ac.in or contact Centralized Admission Cell of the University at 94174 48655.
