Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (KUK) is a university established on 11January 1956 in Kurukshetra, in the Indian state of

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ...

, from the capital,

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. It is a member of

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History

The university was in 1956 as a unitary residential University. The Department of Sanskrit was the first and the only department in the university when it was inaugurated by

Bharat Ratna The Bharat Ratna (; ''Jewel of India'') is the highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "exceptional service/performance of the highest orde ...

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Indian Republic. The idea of establishing university was conceived by then governor of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi Language, Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also Romanization, romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the I ...

Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Sir Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (18 April 1901 – 1994) was an Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and administrator. Early life Singh was born in the Bhumihar Zamindar family of Parsagarh State in Saran district of Bihar. He obtained an ...

, a

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural diffusion ...

scholar. In 2012, the Department of philosophy introduced an academic course on Gita.

Campus

Spread over , the KUK campus is located on the western bank of Brahma Sarovar in the Hindu holy city of Kurukshetra.

Academics

Grading

The university follows a weighted average pattern to calculate grades, with the 1st and 2nd semester contributing 20% to the aggregate marks and each further semester, up to the 8th, contributing 10%.

Rankings

The university was ranked 99 among universities in India by the

NIRF The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The Framework was approved by the MHRD and launched by Minister ...

in 2020. It was ranked at 68th position according to education world ranking 2020.NIRF ranking
KUK, accessed 22 aug 2021.

Institution

Centre of excellence (CoE)

* Centre of excellence for research on

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:
Geoscientific research on

palaeochannel A palaeochannel, also spelt paleochannel and also known as palaeovalley or palaeoriver, is a geological term describing a remnant of an inactive river or stream channel that has been filled or buried by younger sediment. The sediments that th ...

s &

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

* Centre for advance research in earthquake studies:
Seismic hazard map and 24x7 seismic monitoring of Haryana * Centre for applied

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

in environment sciences:
Research on

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to ...

and

pollution Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, th ...

* Centre for information technology and automation:
Research on

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

and business analytics * Centre for advanced material research:
Ion beam centre to research on functional molecules, optical materials and

nanostructures A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures. Nanostructural detail is microstructure at nanoscale. In describing nanostructures, it is necessary to differentiate between the number of di ...

KU Gets 100 crore for CoE
The Tribune, 2018.

Colleges and schools

The university has these colleges, schools and institutes: * University Senior Secondary Model School * Institute of Integrated and Honours Studies (Formerly University College) * University College of Education * Institute of Environmental studies * Department of Law * Department of Geophysics * University School of Management * University Institute of Engineering and Technology * Institute of Management Studies * Institute of Mass Communication & Media Technology

Affiliated colleges

The university has 457 affiliated colleges and institutes. Notable examples include: *

E-Max School of Engineering and Applied Research Education Maximum School of Engineering and Applied Research is an institute of higher education in Ambala, Haryana, India. It was established in 2009 by the Asa Ram Aggarwal Society of Education and Research and is affiliated to Kurushetra Un ...

* Government Engineering College, Nilokheri *

Jind Institute of Engineering and Technology Jind Institute of Engineering and Technology is an institute of higher education in Jind, Haryana, India. It is situated on Jind-Panipat Road. It was established in 1998 and is affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra for all academi ...

* Karnal Institute of Technology and Management, Karnal * Shri Krishan Institute Of Engineering & Technology * JMIT

Achievements

Academic

The Department of Electronic Science in 2011, was awarded a project on nanoscience by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.

Sports

Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra has a number of achievements in sports. In 2015 the Boxing Team of Kurukshetra University won the All India Inter-University Boxing Championship among more than 100 Universities from all over India. All India Inter-University Boxing Championship was held at LPU, Jalandhar. Boxers from KUK won 3 Gold and 3 Bronze Medals under their boxing coach Rajesh Kumar Rajound. The university has been awarded Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy, representing the highest award given for inter-university sports and university sportsperson performance in international and national arena by the

Government of India The Government of India ( ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ...

, in the year 1966–1967.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Educational institutions established in 1956 1956 establishments in East Punjab Recipients of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy