Established in 1882, the University has been incorporated for the purposes, among others, of imparting education in Arts, Letters, Science, Engineering and the learned professions and of furthering advancement of learning, the prosecution of original research and technology. Ranked number one in India and in the bracket 226-250 internationally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2013-2014 powered by Thomson Reuters, the Panjab University, with its 75 teaching and research departments besides 15 centers/chairs for the teaching and research on the main campus at Chandigarh, has more than 192 affiliated/constituent colleges spread over Punjab and Chandigarh besides Regional Centres at Muktsar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and Kauni. Alumnus of Panjab University includes Hargobind Khorana- Nobel Laureate Biotechnologist, Shankar Dayal Sharma- ninth President of India, Manmohan Singh- former Prime minister of India, I. K. Gujral- former Prime minister of India, Kalpana Chawla- NASA Astronaut, Sushma Swaraj- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kiran Bedi- first woman IPS Officer, Sunil Bharti Mittal- founder, chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises, Kapil Sibal- Minister of Human Resource Development, to name a few. Visit Official Site of Panjab University |