Panjab University (Chandigarh)

Academic Excellence

Panjab University (PU) Chandigarh is driven by set of values and norms. Ever since its inception the university has proved its professionalism. After the partition of India, the University of the Punjab was divided into two distinct Institutions, one in each of the two separate nations, with the Indian university initially called East Punjab University (EPU), situated at Shimla. Renamed Panjab University, it relocated to Chandigarh on October 1, 1947.

Important to note that university has 78 teaching and research departments and 10 centers/chairs for teaching and research at the main campus located at Chandigarh. It has 188 affiliated colleges spread over the eight districts of Punjab state and union-territory of Chandigarh, with Regional Centers at Muktsar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur cities in Punjab state. It is one of the well-ranked universities in India. The campus is residential, spread over 550 acres (2.2 km2) in sector 14 and 25 of the city of Chandigarh.

The University of the Punjab was established on 14 October 1882 at Lahore (now in Punjab, Pakistan). After the partition of India in 1947, the university was split with campuses only in the Pakistani Punjab. The government in East Punjab was compelled to bring an ordinance to set up a new university on September 27, 1947. The modern-day Panjab University was then established in Chandigarh of the Indian Punjab named as the "East Panjab University" on October 1, 1947. To distinguish between the two universities, the name of the university on the Indian side, the spelling for 'Punjab' was changed to Panjab. The name was later shortened from East Panjab University to Panjab.

Ranking