Guru Gobind
Singh Indraprastha University (informally Indraprastha University or simply IP)
is a public, professional university located in Delhi,
India. Founded in 1998 it is a teaching-cum-affiliating university which
affiliates more than 120 colleges in Delhi-NCR and has 15 schools and centres
on its campus with one constitutional college — Indira Gandhi Institute of
Technology (under the direct administration of the university). The university
has been graded 'A' by NAAC Accredited University.
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has received the
Platinum Technology Award for quality and excellence in the field of education,
in Geneva, Switzerland, presented by Otherways Management and Consulting
(OMAC), a Paris-based international organisation.
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is a member of the
Association of Commonwealth Universities Association of Indian Universities,
Medical Council of India and Distance Education Council.
History
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University was established as
Indraprastha University (IPU) on 28 March 1998 and eminent I.T. expert,
Professor K. K. Aggarwal was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of the university.
The university was named after the ancient mythological city of Indraprastha,
which features prominently in the Mahabharata epic. In 2001, the university was
officially re-christened as Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU)
after the tenth guru of Sikhs Guru Gobind Singh. The university is completely
secular and doesn't have any religious affiliations.
In 1997 Delhi had four universities — Delhi University,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia University and Indira Gandhi
National Open University. All of them are Central Universities. Delhi
University (DU), the only affiliating university, had reached the point of
saturation and was unable to either open a college on its own or affiliate
colleges opened by either the Government of Delhi or by a private organization.
Therefore, the Delhi government decided to open a new state university to reduce
the burden on DU. The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University was formed by
passing a bill in legislative assembly. GGSIPU was established with a focus
towards professional courses, unlike Delhi University which is more oriented
for general courses.
Eighty five percent of the total seats intake in programs of
university were made for Delhi students only, which applies for all the
schools, centres and colleges located in Delhi. This special mass reservation
provides much needed opportunities to the students of Delhi, as the students
were no longer required to go to far-flung states like Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu for seeking admission under professional
programmes. A total intake capacity of about 5000 seats in was created; now it
has crossed over 50,000.
Schools and
centres
Indraprastha University has 13 schools and 2 centres. These
are the faculties of the university. All are present at either main campus
(Dwarka) or Kashmere Gate campus; they are among the pioneer institutions of
the university. Curriculum for these schools and centers is usually different
from other affiliated institutions.
University School of
Information Technology
University School of
Chemical Technology
University School of Biotechnology
University School of
Management Studies
University School of
Environment Management
University School of
Basic & Applied Sciences
University School of
Humanities & Social Sciences
University School of
Law and Legal Studies
University School of
Engineering & Technology
University School of
Education
University School of
Architecture & Planning
University School of
Medicine and Para-Medical Health Sciences
University School of
Mass Communication
University Centres
University Centre for
IT Services & Infrastructure Management
University Centre for
Disaster Management Studies
CAMPUS
The university has its campus in Dwarka being recently
shifted from Kashmere Gate. It is a new campus and spread over an area of 60
acres where a still considerable portion is under construction. On Dwarka
campus, the university is running 10 schools and imparting professional
education to more than 3000 graduate and post-graduate students.
Kashmere Gate campus has been solely acquired by Indira
Gandhi Institute of Technology and Ambedkar University. With an aim to provide
"Research and Development" facilities of international standards, the
university has decided to set up an Institute of Information Technology in
Surajmal Vihar, East Delhi. For this purpose it has acquired 19 acres (77,000
m2) of land on which the construction is likely to start very soon.
On-campus
cultural festivals
Anugoonj Annual cultural festival.
InfoXpression Annual cultural festival of the University
School of Information Technology.
Neurotrix Annual technical festival of IEEE branch of
University School of Information Technology.
Impulse Cultural-cum-technical festival of the IEEE-IGIT.
Tremors Cultural-cum-technical festival of the CSI-IGIT.
Exuberance Cultural festival of the University School of
Management Studies.
Sanslation Annual technical festival of the University
School of Chemical Technology.
Reputation
According to Webometrics Indraprastha University is ranked
57th among the top universities of India, just behind the Indian Institute of
Management Lucknow; it ranks at 5097th spot in the list of world's top
universities. Amity Law School, one of the affiliated institutes of the
university ranked at 10th in the list of prominent Law Institutes of India.
Faculty of Biotechnology of university-University School of Biotechnology is
ranked sixth in the list of Premier Public Biotechnology Institutes of India.
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