Guru Nanak Dev University

Magnificent Guru Nanak Dev University of Amritsar, is one of the nationwide renowned higher education and research universities of India. Declared by the UGC as a University with Potential for Excellence (UPE), this guru nanak dev university (GNDU) has been accredited with Grade 'A', and has won the prestigious Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Trophy more than twenty times, so far. In respect of publications in science, this university ranks among the top twenty reputed and leading universities of India.

This teaching, residential, and affiliating university was established in the year 1969. Its main campus is well-established over an area of about 500 acres near the Kot Khalsa village of Amritsar district, which is just about 8 Km distant from the city. Today, this guru nanak dev university has two more regional campuses in Gurudaspur and Jalandhar, three big constituent colleges, more than 70 associate institutes, and about 150 affiliated colleges and institutes. The main and noble objectives of this highly ambitious, innovative, and punctilious university are to impart quality higher education to students residing in the surrounding areas, especially those who belong to the backward classes; to nurture and promote prolific research in subjects of contemporary importance; to produce bright and enlightened professionals to serve admirably the concerned industries; to foster studies and research on the life and teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji; to promote education in Punjabi and other languages; and thus, contribute to the social, industrial, and economic progress of Punjab, and the whole nation at large.

This immensely prestigious and fast prospering guru nanak dev university of Amritsar has the following major and magnificent faculty divisions:-

These faculty departments conduct courses in the above-mentioned subjects or disciplines at the academic levels of undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral. However, the postgraduate courses of this guru nanak dev university india, are rather renowned. To acquire detailed information about the courses of this one of the most reputed and top universities in amritsar, interested students or scholars may visit its website www.gndu.ac.in.

Apart from well-established and world-class academic infrastructure and facilities, this guru nanak dev university punjab, also has all necessary amenities, facilities, and services for lavish living, recreation, well-rounded development and welfare of students, and placement of its bright candidates in the concerned industries. These residential and supportive facilities and services include --- modern well-equipped laboratories, libraries, computer centre, university science instrumentation centre (USIC), press and publications, department of training and placement, a modern hi-tech sports complex, hostels, affluent residential facilities for faculty and administrative staff, media centre, centre for immigrants studies, NSS, Punjabi Folklore Museum, sports facilities for a variety of popular indoor and outdoor games and sports, heritage village, model bio-village, department of youth services, a 900-seat auditorium, many seminar and conference halls, health centre and day-care centre, faculty club, students' centre, two separate holiday homes at Dalhousie for teachers and students, green grounds, and walking lanes adorned and shadowed by blossom-laden trees.