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. What the
Punjab University can offer
to its students ? The Punjab University (previously named University of the Punjab) was founded in 1882 at Lahore as the fourth teaching and affiliating University on the Indian Subcontinent under British rule. After partition and initial dislocation, the University shifted to Chandigarh in 1956. Its red sand stone campus, designed by renowned French architects, came up within a few years. After the bifurcation of Punjab and Haryana in 1966, the University became an Inter State Body Corporate substantially supported by the Central Government, and drawing students from the northern region and beyond. Students from the developing countries too come to the Punjab University for education and research. During the previous year (1997) over 18,000 students were enrolled in the University Teaching Departments (over 13,000 in its Department of Correspondence Studies), and over 69,000 students were enrolled in the 104 affiliated colleges. To the postgraduate and undergraduate students in its Teaching Departments at Chandigarh (the latter only in Honours School in Science), the University offers a beautifully laid out compact campus with modern amenities in a pollution-free environment. With its most modern laboratories and equipment, and on of the largest libraries in Asia, the Punjab University offers tremendous opportunities to its students who interact with students from all over India and abroad. They learn from a Faculty of national and international repute. They get exposure to a variety of academic, cultural and youth leadership programmes. After passing out many get absorbed in various professions and corporate sector in the country and also go for work and higher study outside India. The University Campus was designed by Pierre Jeannerret under the general guidance of the legendary Le Corbusier. By now spread over an area of over 500 acres, the Campus has fairly well-marked zones: the teaching area in the north-east, with the Library, Fine Arts Museum, and the three-winged structure of the Gandhi Bhawan forming its core; the sports complex and the market in the middle; the University hostels on the flanks and the south; and the residential area in the south-east, stretching into the adjacent sector. There are nearly a dozen types of houses to accommodate the Faculty and the Employees. For the visiting faculty, eminent scholars, examiners, and others there are different Guest Houses, including a separate one for the foreign scholars. The construction and maintenance of the Campus buildings is looked after by the University Executive Engineer and his establishment. The Academic The Dean of University Instruction Under the overall direction of the Vice-Chancellor, the office of the D.U.I. is the nerve centre for all matters concerning the administration and academic environment on the Campus. From admissions to the sending of students for examinations, the working of the Teaching Departments is overseen by this office. The grant of fee concessions and disbursements from the Students’ Amalgamated Fund are its concern too. The coordination and promotion of research activity of the University is a major responsibility of the D.U.I. The Punjab University has over fifty Teaching Departments offering courses under eleven Faculties. In addition to various disciplines in pure sciences, social sciences and languages, the courses of a more professional nature available on the Campus or in Chandigarh are Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Energy Research, Computer Science and Applications, Dairying, Animal Husbandry and Agriculture, Business Management and Commerce, Design and Fine Arts, Theatre and Music, Education and Physical Education, Library and Information Science, the Laws, and Mass Communication.
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