Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Thapar University

Aerial view of Thapar University campus
Type	public
Established	1956
Chairman	Sh. R.R. Vederah
President	Sh. Gautam Thapar
Director	Prof. Prakash Gopalan
Academic staff	250+
Undergraduates	5000+
Postgraduates	600+
Location	Patiala, Punjab, India
Campus	250 acres (1.0 km2), Urban
Affiliations	UGC, NAAC
Website	www.thapar.edu

Thapar University, formerly known as Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, was founded in 1956 by Karam Chand Thapar and is situated in Patiala. It has grown in size and activities during the last five decades of its existence. It was granted full autonomy and the status of a university by the University Grants Commission in 1985. It was ranked #5 by the limited participation CSR-GHRDC Engineering Colleges Survey 2011.

Thapar University is today considered among the leading privately managed engineering institutions of the country. National Assessment and Accreditation Council, an autonomous body funded by the UGC, has accredited Thapar University with 'A Grade'. On 24 November 2014, Thapar University signed an agreement with Trinity College, Dublin, as part of its efforts to impart global standard education at its campus in Patiala.

The campus has six old academic blocks, namely A, B, C, D, E, F and a recently constructed TAN block. The blocks are well constructed with greenery interspersed between them. The university campus has six hostels for boys. Each hostel has a gym, a reading room and a common room. There is a cooperative mess system in each hostel, and a student executive committee headed by the warden to manage day-to-day hostel activities.

Hostel -A(Capacity: 252)

Hostel -B(Capacity: 282)

Hostel -C(Capacity: 320)

Hostel -H(Capacity: 480)

Hostel-J(Capacity: 942) J stands for Jannat. As the name must suggest, this hostel is best in the campus and understandably the most expensive.

Hostel-E(Capacity : 237)

Hostel-PG(Capacity: 288)

Hostel -I(Capacity: 407)

The campus boasts of an in-house market COS (Cultural Open-air Sports) complex which has variety of shops where one can eat, drink, get his/her laundry done and buy stationery items.

The institute offers undergraduate programmes leading to Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree and postgraduate programmes leading to Master of Engineering (M.E.), Master of Software Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degrees. Students have to take the Jee-main exam to get admission into Thapar University for the undergraduate program and students take the MET exam for admission into graduate/postgraduate programmes.

Thapar University was ranked 51 in India by Careers360 in 2017, 8th among private universities, Careers360 has rated it the second best rating, "AAAA+", among engineering colleges in India. It also ranked 10th among engineering colleges by India Today in 2017, 19 by Outlook India in 2017 and 26 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2017.