PUNJABI UNIVERSITY PATIALA

Dr S. Radhakrishnan, the former President of India, founded the Punjabi University in 1962. In 1961, the Punjab Assembly passed the Punjab Act No. i.e 35 which led to the establishment of the university. About 274 colleges are affiliated to this university. It has 6 regional centres, 12 constituent colleges, 9 campuses and 65 teaching or research departments.

Punjabi University Admission Process-     

The university decides upon certain eligibility criteria for all the courses. If a student fulfils the criteria, then the application form should be filled with the necessary details and submitted. For some undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, the university prepares the merit list completely on the basis of the marks obtained by the students in the 12th standard exam or graduate level exam. For some courses, it conducts the entrance examination.

The student have to secure qualifying marks in the examination and a merit list will be prepared accordingly. For taking admission into certain programmes, the candidates have to qualify for the National or State level entrance test.

Punjabi University Placements-

The university has a placement cell that provides all the necessary information regarding the recruitment process to the students. Over the years, a number of candidates from several departments have got placed in different companies. The companies, namely as SBI Life Insurance, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Emerson, HDFC Bank, Honda, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Indiabulls, Infosys, Mahindra Finance, Soma,  and Sonalika International, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Rolls Royce, Larsen and Turbo, SBI MF have visited the campus previous year.

Scholarship Opportunities-                                                                  

Punjabi University provides scholarships, namely Post Matric Scholarship, Scholarship for Pragati and Saksham Scheme, National Fellowship and Scholarship for the higher education of the ST students to its candidate.