Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), formerly Thapar University, is a deemed-to-be-university, in

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, India. It was founded in 1956 by

Karam Chand Thapar Karam Chand Thapar (1900–1962) was the founder of the Thapar Group of companies. He was originally from Punjab. He started his career in 1920 as a coal trader in Calcutta, and built up the family fortune through Karam Chand Thapar and Bros. ...

. The university provides a wide range of courses from The Arts and Humanities, Computer Applications and IT, Animation and Design, Management and Business Administration and Sciences.

Campus

The campus is housed in a 250-acre land in the heart of Patiala and has six old academic blocks, namely A, B, C, D, E, F and two newly constructed TAN and H block. The old building of

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has been converted into an academic block named G.

Expansion in 2018

In 2018, the institute inauguration of three new buildings including a lecture hall complex, computer block and a new library. The completed expansions included the new five-floor Nava Nalanda library, one six-floor computer cpmplex consisting of labs and faculty areas and one six-floor lecture complex with lecture halls of capacity ranging from 200 students to 550 students each and activity rooms with capacity of 200 students each. The campus includes state of the art hostels namely, A, B, C, D, H, J, K, L, M, O for boys and E, F, G, I, and N for girls with the total capacity exceeding 8,000 students.

Rankings

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology was ranked 601–800 in the world by the

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of 2020 and 144 in Asia in the ranking of 2021. The

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of 2022 ranked it 1001–1200 in the world while the in 2020 it was ranked 261–270 in Asia. In India, the university ranked 23 among engineering colleges by

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in 2020, and third among private engineering colleges by

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in 2022. The

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has ranked 29th among engineering institutions in 2020, 31st among universities and 51st overall.

Future expansions

Thapar University plans to set up two campuses over the next five years: one on a campus near Chandigarh and another in Chhattisgarh.

Notable alumni

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, chairman and managing director of NBCC Limited * Aditi Avasthi, CEO and Head of Product of Embibe

References

External links

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