Shiv Nadar University
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Type | Private |
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Established | 2011 |
Chancellor | S N Balakrishnan |
Vice-Chancellor | Rupamanjari Ghosh |
Registrar | Sudhir Naudiyal |
Academic staff | 186 |
Students | 1,797 |
Undergraduates | 1,548 |
Postgraduates | 149 |
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Location | Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh |
Affiliations | UGC, AICTE |
Website | snu.edu.in |
Shiv Nadar University (or SNU) is a private interdisciplinary research university founded in 2011 in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh in India. It was founded as part of a series of initiatives launched by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation funded by Shiv Nadar, founder and chairman of HCL.[1][2][3]
The University's stated aim is "to create an enduring, research-led, inter-disciplinary university."[4]
In the short period of its operations, the University has achieved The University was established by the Act no. 12 of 2011 of State Legislature of Uttar Pradesh as a State Private University, and was empowered by the UGC to award degrees under Section 22 of the UGC Act, 1956. The University started the Engineering Majors in the Academic Year 2011-12 with the approval of the AICTE. The University is currently registered with DSIR, Government of India as a Research Institution.
History
In 1994, Nadar established Shiv Nadar Foundation (SNF) and created its first initiative in Chennai, the SSN Institutions, which soon became a top ranked engineering college. The Foundation was a significant driver of social change and education through institutions spanning the education spectrum from schools to colleges. The SNF decided to build a unique research-led interdisciplinary university that can be identified as India's first Ivy League institution. In the early 2010s a 286-acre land plot near the town of Dadri was earmarked for building the campus. The university started with an undergraduate curriculum that was unique and unprecedented in India. The curriculum was designed to allow students to major in a particular subject while also studying and experimenting with a range of other minor and elective subjects and getting degrees with minors/ specialisations.
In February 2016, after serving the University for nearly five years, Nikhil Sinha stepped down as the founding vice-chancellor and was succeeded by Rupamanjari Ghosh.[5]
Academic organisation
Curriculum approach
Each is anchored in Core Common Curriculum (CCC) – a set of courses aimed to expose students to essential practice and knowledge from eight different categories.
Research
From 2011 to 2015, the University received Extramural Grants of over ₹10 crores for more than 30 active research projects, many of which are in collaboration with international universities. Researchers include faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D. scholars, visiting scholars and undergraduate students.
Campus
The university is located on a 286-acre residential campus in India's National Capital Region.
The University’s campus has 6 academic blocks, 65 state-of-the-art laboratories and studios, 9 student hostels, 2 dining facilities, 15 sports courts and 2 fully equipped gymnasiums. Shiv Nadar University is the first private university and only the fifth research institution in the country with a ‘High Performance Computing Cluster’ with 30 TeraFlops of peak performance for research requiring advanced computational capabilities.
Apart from hostels, a residential complex is built for visitors. The faculty residential complex is under construction and are expected to be ready by 2016.
Clubs and forums offer various extra-curricular activities for students, faculty and staff.
Academic partners
SNU has collaborated with following international universities for Collaborative Research, Semester Exchange programs, Joint Degree Programs, Joint Research Grants, Curricula and Academic Support.
- Babson College : SNU has as strategic alliance with [Babson College] to bring excellent entrepreneurship education to India.
- Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania: SNU collaborated with Annenberg School to launch its school of communication.
- Duke University: For a broad framework of collaborative academic programs and experiential learning opportunities for faculty and students of both the universities.
- Queen's University, Belfast
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Mode of admission
Since 2015 the admission to the university for undergraduate programme is granted on the basis of marks obtained in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Main) and SNU's own entrance tests (SNUSAT and APT).[7] The medium of instruction for all the courses at the university is English.
References
- ↑ Rahul Choudaha (17 August 2013). "Branch campus or partnerships – Or both?". University World News. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ↑ S. Ronendra Singh (1 August 2013). "The rise of an heiress: Roshni Nadar". Business Line. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ↑ Shiv Nadar Foundation Inaugural Report 2012 (PDF) (Report). Shiv Nadar Foundation.
- ↑ "Shiv Nadar Foundation Brochure" (PDF). http://www.shivnadarfoundation.org. Shiv Nadar Foundation. Retrieved 29 August 2013. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Shiv Nadar University appoints Rupamanjari Ghosh as vice-chancellor - The Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ http://snu.edu.in/theuniversity/academic_partners.aspx
- ↑ http://snu.edu.in/admission/undergraduate.aspx