Quick Facts About Panjab University (P.U.)

One of the oldest Universities in India.

Established in 1882 at Lahore (now in Pakistan).

University campus is spread over an area of 550 acres (2.2 km²) in sectors 14 and 25 of the city of Chandigarh

University has 75 teaching and research departments and 15 Centers/Chairs for teaching and research at the main campus located at Chandigarh

University has 188 affiliated colleges spread over Punjab and having one rural Regional Centre at Kauni, and 3 Regional Centres at Muktsar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur.

"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 relating to the residence and conduct of students and to do all such acts as tend to promote study and research".
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About University Institute of Engineering & Technology(U.I.E.T)

Measuring up to high standards of Panjab University, the institute has set quality standards in technical education. The highly qualified faculty and dedicated staff is the backbone of institute. Well equipped laboratories provide practical industrial exposure to the students. State of art computer facilities, independent broad band internet connectivity provide ample scope for students to learn round the clock. Wi-Fi has reduced locational dependence of the students. In fact, students with laptops avail the facility in the institute as well as in the hostels. With the updation/revision of syllabi in interaction with academia and industry, more practical activities have been made computer based.

Institute has good liaison with industry. Bharti group of industries has set up a Bharti Chair in Telecommunication & IT to boost research in Telecommunication. The institute is member of Campus Connect programme of Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore. The programme supports Faculty training in industry, project guidance to students, curricula inputs, industry perspective of teaching-learning and expert lecture inputs. UIET has many more MOUs and interactions with the industry and academia like IBM, Sun Microsystem, IMTECH etc.

=> UIET ranking: UIET ranked at position 10 among top engineering colleges of north India: Go Education Engineering Colleges Survey 2012
=> UIET ranking: UIET ranked at position 40 among top govt. engineering colleges of India: Mint C-Fore Survey
=> Bio-cAMP : symposium cum biotechnology fest to be held in UIET

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