Thapar University

Thapar University

Aerial view of Thapar University campus
Type	public
Established	1956
Chairman	Sh. R.R. Vederah
President	Sh. Gautam Thapar
Director	Prof. Prakash Gopalan
Academic staff	250+
Undergraduates	5000+
Postgraduates	600+
Location	Patiala, Punjab, India
Campus	250 acres (1.0 km2), Urban
Affiliations	UGC, NAAC
Website	www.thapar.edu

Thapar University, formerly known as Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, was founded in 1956 by Karam Chand Thapar and is situated in Patiala. It has grown in size and activities during the last five decades of its existence. It was granted full autonomy and the status of a university by the University Grants Commission in 1985. It was ranked #5 by the limited participation CSR-GHRDC Engineering Colleges Survey 2011.^[1]

Thapar University is today considered among the leading privately managed engineering institutions of the country. National Assessment and Accreditation Council, an autonomous body funded by the UGC, has accredited Thapar University with 'A Grade'. On 24 November 2014, Thapar University signed an agreement with Trinity College, Dublin, as part of its efforts to impart global standard education at its campus in Patiala.

Campus

The campus has six old academic blocks, namely A, B, C, D, E, F and a recently constructed TAN block. The blocks are well constructed with greenery interspersed between them. The university campus has six hostels for boys. Each hostel has a gym, a reading room and a common room. There is a cooperative mess system in each hostel, and a student executive committee headed by the warden to manage day-to-day hostel activities.

Hostel -A(Capacity: 252)

Hostel -B(Capacity: 282)

Hostel -C(Capacity: 320)

Hostel -H(Capacity: 480)

Hostel-J(Capacity: 942) J stands for Jannat. As the name must suggest, this hostel is best in the campus and understandably the most expensive.

Hostel-E(Capacity : 237)

Hostel-PG(Capacity: 288)

Hostel -I(Capacity: 407)

The campus boasts of an in-house market COS (Cultural Open-air Sports) complex which has variety of shops where one can eat, drink, get his/her laundry done and buy stationery items.

Academics

The institute offers undergraduate programmes leading to Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree and postgraduate programmes leading to Master of Engineering (M.E.), Master of Software Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degrees. Students have to take the Jee-main exam to get admission into Thapar University for the undergraduate program and students take the MET exam for admission into graduate/postgraduate programmes.

Rankings

Thapar University was ranked 51 in India by Careers360 in 2017, 8th among private universities,^[2] Careers360 has rated it the second best rating, "AAAA+", among engineering colleges in India.^[6] It also ranked 10th among engineering colleges by India Today in 2017,^[4] 19 by Outlook India in 2017^[5] and 26 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2017.^[3]

College societies and chapters

The college has a variety of Technical as well as nontechnical societies. A few of them are:

• Thapar Codechef Chapter
• Computer Society of India
• Fine Arts and Photography Society
• LEAD Society
• Thapar IIChE (Indian Institute Of Chemical Engineers)
• Thapar AIChE (American Institute Of Chemical Engineers)
• Literary Society
• Thapar MUN (Model United Nations)
• Scientist's Spiritual Alliance
• Creative Computing Society
• Microsoft Student Chapter
• Linux User Group
• Owasp

(B.E) programmes

The institute offers undergraduate programmes leading to Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree.

Sports Activities

The university has several playgrounds and well-maintained athletic track to encourage the students to take part in different games such as cricket, hockey, table tennis, football, basketball, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, chess and athletics.

The university has also a gymnasium-cum-badminton hall and a swimming pool complex equipped with all modern facilities.

It is mandatory for all the students of the university to get themselves registered in any one of the following activities in each semester

• Athletics
• Any one of the games
• Physical exercises
• Yoga/meditation

Future expansions

Thapar University plans to set up two campuses over the next five years: one on a 14-acre (57,000 m²) campus near Chandigarh^[7] and another in Chhattisgarh. It plans to offer courses in management and engineering at its proposed Chandigarh campus and will invest around Rs 30-35 crore. The existing 250-acre (1.0 km²) campus in Patiala has a student strength of 4,600 and can accommodate around 6,000 students.

Notable alumni

• Anoop Kumar Mittal Chairman-cum-Managing Director of National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited
• Deepak Vinayak, Community Leader, Melbourne, Australia

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