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| Chancellor | Ashok K. Mittal |
| Vice-Chancellor | Ramesh Kanwar |
| Location | Phagwara at the entry of Jalandhar, Punjab, India |
| Campus | 600+ acres |
| Nickname | LPU |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | lpu.in |
Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a private semi-residential university created under the state government private university act. LPU claims to be the largest private university in India in terms of number of students on a single campus and is situated on 600+ acres of green area on NH-1 at the entry of Jalandhar city. The university has more than 25,000 students from 26 states and 16 countries.[1][2] It is recognized by UGC under Section 2(f) of UGC Act 1956.
Strict discipline is maintained on campus: students are not allowed to leave without written permission from their parents and have to wear a uniform on weekdays. It is a residential university with separate hostels for boys and girls housing more than 10,000 students. AC and non-AC facilities with different fees are available in hostels depending on student need.
LPU provides education through more than 150 doctorate, post graduate, graduate and diploma programmes in a variety of disciplines.[3]
Lovely Professional University has tied with international universities for twinning programs and international exposure programs.
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The Lovely Faculty of Technology and Sciences was ranked #29 on the CSR-GHRDC Engineering Colleges Survey 2011 it was ranked #29.[4] Lovely Professional University declared as the Best ICT Enabled University of the Year through Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India
Lovely Professional University has recognitions and approvals of the following:
LPU offers university education through its distance education programme run by the LPU Directorate of Distance Education.
The distance education programmes at LPU are DEC recognized.
In April 2011, a Lovely student was beaten by other players and fans during a football game and died a few hours later. The beaten student was from Mizoram and the three accused were Sudanese and Tanzanian.[6] The racial aspect of the crime led to near-rioting on the campus, destroying a number of kiosks and cars. Tension continued with the university closed for three days, and with police being pelted with stones by angry students.[7] LPU Pro-Chancellor Rashmi Mittal described the attack as, "students didn’t take the spirit of the game in a positive manner".[8] The university's management have also been criticised for ignoring earlier racial attacks.[9]
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