Guru Nanak Dev University

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Guru Nanak Dev University
Guru Nanak Dev University
Established: 1969
Type: Public
Location: Amritsar, Punjab, India Flag of India
Campus: Urban, 500 acres (2 km²)
Vice Chancellor: Dr. J. R. Singh
Affiliations: UGC
Website: www.gnduonline.org

Guru Nanak Dev University, or G.N.D.U., was established at Amritsar, India on November 24, 1969 to commemorate Guru Nanak Dev's birth quincentenary celebrations.

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[edit] Introduction

It is a both residential and an affiliating university. In conceiving the future course of the University, the objectives enshrined in the Act 1969 [1], emphasised that the new university would make provision for imparting education and promoting research in the humanities, learned professions, sciences, especially of applied nature and technology. Studies and research on the life and teachings of Guru Nanak, in addition to working towards the promotion of Punjabi language and spreading education among educationally backward classes and communities were the other commitments.

[edit] Campus

Main Library Building; GNDU Amritsar
Main Library Building; GNDU Amritsar

Guru Nanak Dev University campus is spread over 500 acres (2 km²) near village of Kot Khalsa, some eight kilometer west of the Amritsar City on Amritsar - Lahore highway, next to Khalsa College, Amritsar. G.N.D.U. presents a picture of modern architecture. Traditional red brick geometrical blocks represent its regard for time-honoured values and commitment to scientific advancement. Making its humble beginning in an annexe of the adjoining Khalsa College, the University today boasts of thirty seven academic departments, two regional centres, two colleges and a score of support service departments besides several administrative offices.

In addition to the academics, the University has also created necessary facilities for recreation and all round development of students and faculty in the form of Department of Youth Services, National Service Scheme, a 900 seat all purpose auditorium, half a dozen seminar and conference halls, a modern hi-tech sports complex, sports hostel, faculty club, students' centre, health centre, day care centre, two separate holiday homes at Dalhousie for teachers and students, working women hostel, Baba Buddha College Bhawan along with on campus residential facilities for a large number of students, teachers and administrative staff. The Campus with its lush green grounds, swaying fields, blossom laden tree lined lanes provides a most conducive physical environment for work and progress. The University takes pride in the fact that its community over the years has developed a great participative work culture.

[edit] Awards

The University has won Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy seventeen times and inter-varsity youth festival championship four times consecutively. UGC has granted the University Centre for Excellence in Sports Sciences.

National Assessment and Accreditation Council accredited the University at the Five Star Level. [2] Being rated at such a high level will inspire its community to make strides ahead still faster and stronger with academic excellence and commitment to social upliftment as the core ideals.

[edit] Notable visitors


[edit] Departments

[edit] Applied Sciences

Department of Applied Chemistry Department of Applied Chemical Sciences & Technology Department of Applied Physics Department of Food Science & Technology Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

[edit] Arts & Social Science

Department of History Department of Political Science Department of Psychology School of Social Sciences Department of Sociology Department of Library & Information Science

[edit] Economics & Business

  • Department of Commerce and Business Management - The Department of Commerce and Business Management (CBM) was initially a constituent unit of the Punjab School of Economics, but in 1984 it started functioning as an independent department.
  • Punjab School of Economics

Admission to the MBA program is through a competitive test, MET Punjab.

[edit] Engogy

  • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Electronics and Communication

[edit] Religious Studies

  • Guru Nanak Studies

[edit] Languages

  • Department of English
  • Department of Foreign Languages
  • Department of Hindi
  • Department of Sanskrit, Pali & Prakrit
  • School of Punjabi Studies
  • Department of Urdu & Persian

[edit] Laws

rtment of Architecture

  • Guru Ram Das School of Planning

[edit] Sciences

  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Physics

courses offred in mathematics department

[edit] Sports Medicines & Physiotherapy

  • Department of Sports Medicines & Physiotherapy

[edit] Visual Art & Performing Arts

  • Department of Music


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Default PLESK Page
  2. ^ NAAC.

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