Panjab University, Chandigarh
Panjab University is one of the oldest universities in India. Panjab University offers courses and research in Science, Engineering & Technology, Humanities, Commerce, Social Sciences, Performing Arts and Sports. The campus is residential, spread over 550 acres in sectors 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 university has 75 teaching and research departments and 15 centres/chairs for teaching and research at the main campus located at Chandigarh. It has 188 affiliated colleges spread over Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh & Regional Centres at Muktsar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur.HistoryPresent day Panjab university traces its origin to the Punjab University established in 1882 at Lahore . After the partition of India, in 1947, university was split into two for Indian Punjab and Pakistani Punjab. To distinguish the two, name of university on the Indian side was changed from Punjab to Panjab. After 1947 the university had no campus of its own for nearly a decade. The administrative office was located at Solan, Himachal Pradesh and the teaching departments functioned from Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Delhi and Amritsar. In 1956 the university was relocated to Chandigarh, on a red sandstone campus designed by Pierre Jeanneret under the guidance of the legendary Le Corbusier. Till the re-organisation of Punjab in 1966, the university had its regional centres at Rohtak, Shimla, Jalandhar and its affiliated colleges were located in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and U.T. of Chandigarh. With the re-organisation of Punjab, the university became an Inter-State Body Corporate catering to the newly organised states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and U.T. of Chandigarh.
