Panjab University

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पंजाब विश्वविद्यालय
Panjab University
Panjab University
founding 1882 in Lahore
1956 moved to Chandigarh
Sponsorship state
place Chandigarh , India
Chancellor ( chancellor ) Venkaiah Naidu
Annual budget 187 billion Indian rupees (2008)
Networks IAU
Website www.pu.ac.in
Student center

The Panjab University is a state university in Chandigarh , the capital of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana .

history

The origins date back to the 1882 founded University of the Punjab in Lahore in what is now Pakistan back. The college was the fourth university to be established in British India after the University of Mumbai , University of Calcutta and University of Madras . It falls under the tenure of Governor Charles Aitchison . After the partition of India in 1947, western Punjab with the provincial capital Lahore came to Pakistan as well. Therefore, in 1956 Panjab University was re-established as the Indian successor university in Chandigarh.

Faculties

  • Design and Fine Arts
  • Engineering and technology
  • Arts
  • Agriculture
  • medicine
  • Natural sciences
  • pedagogy
  • pharmacy
  • law Sciences
  • languages
  • Economics and Commerce

Famous Graduates

Web links

Commons : Panjab University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://puchd.ac.in/chancellor.php
  2. ↑ Panjab University: About PU ( Memento of July 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 18, 2009 at www.pu.ac.in
  3. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed July 28, 2019 .