Punjab University, Chandigarh
Seal of Panjab University
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| Motto | Sanskrit: तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमयत |
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Motto in English
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Lead us unto the Light from Darkness |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1947 |
| Chancellor | Vice-President of India |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Arun Kumar Grover |
| Students | 15000 (250,000+ including affiliated colleges) |
| Location | Chandigarh, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | PU |
| Affiliations | UGC, NAAC, AIU |
| Website | puchd.ac.in |
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| General – international | |
| QS (Asian) | 171-180 |
| Times (BRICS) | 13 |
| Times (Asia) | 32 |
| Business – India | |
Panjab University (Hindi: पंजाब विश्वविद्यालय, Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ) a public collegiate university located in Chandigarh, India. It originated in 1882, but established in 1947, making it one of the oldest universities in India. Panjab University is ranked among the top institutions of higher education in India and in Asia.
The university has 75 teaching and research departments and 15 centres for teaching and research at the main campus located at Chandigarh. It has 190 affiliated colleges spread over the eight districts of Punjab state and union-territory of Chandigarh, with Regional Centres at Muktsar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur cities in Punjab state.
The campus is residential, spread over 550 acres (2.2 km2) in sector 14 and 25 of the city of Chandigarh. The main administrative and academic buildings are located in sector 14, beside a health centre, a sports complex, hostels and residential housing.
The present-day Panjab University traces its roots to the University of the Punjab established on 14 October 1882 at Lahore (now in Punjab, Pakistan). Most of the colleges affiliated to University of the Punjab were in the present Indian part of British India.
After the partition of India in 1947, the university was split into two for Indian Punjab and Pakistani Punjab. A new university was then established/relocated in the Punjab, India in 1947. To distinguish the two, the name of the university on the Indian side, the spelling for 'Punjab' was changed to Panjab. After 1947 the university had no campus of its own for nearly a decade. The administrative office was in Solan and the teaching departments functioned from Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Delhi, and Amritsar.
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