Established in 1882 as University of Punjab at Lahore (now in Pakistan). Panjab University has been Accredited with a CGPA of 3.35 on a four-point scale at A Grade valid upto 24/06/2022.
One of the oldest Universities in India, the Panjab University (PU) initiated in Lahore in 1882, has an extended culture of pursuing excellence in coaching and studies in technology and technology, humanities, social sciences, appearing arts, and sports. The University helps excellence and innovation in educational programs and promotes excellence in studies, scholarship, and teaching.
Panjab University (PU) was approved by AICTE, and NAAC, and Ranked 38 For Overall By NIRF 2021.
Panjab University (PU) courses are offered at various levels like Undergraduate Degree (i.e BBA, BCA, B.Com, B.sc, etc.), Postgraduate Degree (i.e Master of Arts (MA) Economics, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Civil Engineering, etc.), Law Degree (i.e. LLM ). You can also find a brief overview of the different courses offered by the university across various disciplines with their specializations on the Course page.
Residential Accommodations:
A hostel is a domestic far from domestic. Aware of the unique desires and necessities of college students, who come from far-flung locations to this center of learning, the Panjab University attempts to offer them a safe, stable, and inexpensive accommodation. There are seventeen Residence Halls for college students on the campus, eight every for boys and nine for women, and a Working Women Hostel. These Halls, accommodate extra than 6000 college students. The University Hostels take pains to offer its college students neat and smooth surroundings and a snug location to stay in. There are Wardens/Hostel Staff on responsibility spherical the clock.
Each hostel has an eating corridor and canteen, numerous desolate tract and water coolers, a visitors' lounge, and always an outdoor court for badminton, volleyball, etc. The mess offers a balanced weight-reduction plan at affordable rates. The Common Room in all fairness well prepared with cutting-edge magazines and newspapers. There is provision for indoor games, LCD TV, and a music system. Internet connectivity via wireless and cyber caféas has been provided in every hostel.
Library:
The AC Joshi Library is housed in a centrally-positioned and absolutely air-conditioned five-story construction with a seating capacity of 500 readers. It has over 7 lakh courses and a prized series of 1490 manuscripts. It is absolutely automatic and offers to access extra than 7500 online complete-textual content journals via UGC- INFONET.
It is one of the six National Document Delivery Centres of INFLIBNET for facts distribution. Radio Frequency Identification Technology withinside the Library blessings the readers by allowing self-trouble and returns of books 24x7.Recently many new offerings had been delivered which include Online Membership, SMS service, Digital signage system, etc.
The outer analyzing corridor is open twenty 4 hours. For visually impaired college students, the library offers the JAWS software program to get admission to facts displayed at the display through textual content-to-speech and Zoom-Ex which turns pc into a handy scanner, reader, and magnifier.
Medical Facilities:
Bhai Ghanaiya Ji (BGJ) Institute of Health caters to the clinical desires of approximately 40,000 personnel and their dependents, college students of all of the departments, all boys and women dwelling in hostels, day by day wagers, contractual personnel, mess, and canteen workers.
A spherical-the-clock emergency service, in conjunction with a 24x7 ambulance, is available. The Institute has a totally prepared current scientific laboratory, a modern automatic ECG machine, a totally automatic virtual 500mA mammographic-like minded CR unit, and an X-Ray machine. BGJ Institute of Health is manned by trendy doctors and professionals from different faculties.
Sports Facilities:
The University has playgrounds for all principal sports. There is an air-conditioned health club corridor, a global stage Swimming Pool, Diving Pool, four hundred m grassy Athletic Track (eight lanes), cemented Basketball courts with flood lights, 4 Volleyball courts, one Hockey ground, football grounds, Kho-Kho courts, Kabaddi courts, 3 Softball grounds, Cricket grounds, one Netball ground, one korfball ground, artificial garden tennis courts, eight grassy Lawn Tennis Courts, one Cinder Lawn Tennis Court. An global fashionable 10-meter capturing variety is likewise useful on PU Campus.
Admission to certain courses is based on Entrance Exams conducted by the University
Scholarships are offered to deserving candidates on basis of Merit and for Sportsperson, Economically Poor Candidates, handicapped students, Wards of Army Personnel, Wards of University Employees, Girls, and Candidates belonging to backward classes.
Sports Scholarships
Mrs. Udham Kaur Scholarships
Alfred Woolner Scholarship
Need-cum-Merit Scholarships for Handicap Students
PU gives Placement to all applicants via their vital placement cell. The Placement Cell of the college endeavors to provide education & placement offerings to the college students. The college students are really well worth positioned in consultancies, Think Tanks, and Research Institutes except for Academics and Civil Services. The college has been given such a lot of tie-ups with many reputed and famed companies in addition to agencies for offering most placement and education possibilities to its college students so they develop properly proper from their first job.
The Panjab University Oral History Project aims to conduct detailed interviews with individuals who have been associated with Early Panjab University (1947-1965) in any capacity. The recorded conversations will be transcribed, copy-edited, annotated and uploaded. Memoirs written by individuals, as also old photographs and documents, would also be published.
"The University has been incorporated for the purpose, among others, of making provision for imparting education in Arts, Letters, Science and the learned professions and of furthering advancement of learning, the prosecution of original research, with power to appoint University Professors, Readers and Lecturers, to hold and manage educational endowments, to erect, equip and maintain University colleges, libraries, laboratories and museums, to making regulations".