Chandigarh University is a leading university offering its students with an ideal combination of professional and academic excellence. Ranked among Asia’s best and fastest growing universities, CU has coupled the experience of top industry leaders and renowned academicians, fostering a worldly approach. Underpinned by the ethical values and professional governance structure, we are constantly working towards our mission of delivering quality education and generating potential managers for the industry. The University has established an unparalleled interface with top-notch multinational companies which has led to collaborative programs, the establishment of industry-sponsored labs for R&D, providing students with real-life practical experience through research centers of excellence established by international IT giants like Microsoft and IBM.

The University’s commitment to excellence in teaching-learning is evident through the globally acceptable curriculum, scientific, transparent and objective evaluation/examination system, project-based learning, student-centric policies, conducive environment and convivial campus life.

The Strategic Plan seeks to leverage the strengths that Chandigarh University has developed over the past five years and to build upon them and acquire or develop new strengths. Chandigarh University has already commenced a number of strategic initiatives to establish itself as a worldclass university.

Some of these are below

• Academic Excellence
• Internationalization
• Research
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Student Centric

Academic Excellence

• The academic excellence of Chandigarh University (CU) provides exceptional opportunities to learn from the best faculty, enjoy every minute and give a career an edge. The academic model ensures that students are groomed to be industry- ready through academic and research innovation, flexibility, interdisciplinary exposure, training for placement and real-time projects.
• Students have a wide choice of futuristic programs including Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Big Data and Analytics, Applied Health Sciences: Optometry and Physiotherapy, Forensic Science and Toxicology and many more. A number of these courses are offered in close collaboration with industry and foreign universities. Chandigarh University is also known for placements with National Award Winner (Limca Book of Records) for the highest number of companies visiting CU campus placements in a single academic year.
• Chandigarh University graduate outcomes more than 75-80% of the students find employability upon graduation in leading organization in India and abroad, around 1020% of them pursue higher studies in leading educational institution across the world.

Internationalization

• Chandigarh University. has been actively working with more than 200 international universities across 50 countries, including New Zealand, China, Japan, Russia, France, Germany, UK, Canada, USA, etc. in the last 5 years in areas of content development, research, student and facility mobility.
• Chandigarh University’s International Student Exchange Cell is helping students to go abroad for a Semester Abroad Program with foreign universities in countries like France, Mexico, South Korea, Russia, Belgium, Mongolia, Egypt, Thailand and Germany. More than 354 students went abroad in the last 05 years as exchange students and University plan to increase this figure to 3% of the student strength in coming years.
• Top experts of partner universities and other prominent universities regularly come as visiting faculty to the campus from university Cambridge, Mc Gill, California, Northumbria and many more. Chandigarh University has also attracted more than 716 international students from 32 countries. The university aim is to increase this figure to 10% in coming 5 years.

Research:

• Chandigarh University has set up a 9 research centers and 50 + research group which promotes and facilitates research and innovation among the faculty and students which has improved the quality of the publication.
• Chandigarh University with a strong innovation culture with significant research output with 234 patents with the last five years. Aim of the University is to be known in the region as a Innovation Centric University.
• The University has procured 99 projects worth Rupees 18.49 crores from different grant giving state and national agencies by DST, MOWR, MOYA, IREDA, IEDC. In coming years CU will aim to increase this figure to 100 Crores.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship:

• Chandigarh University has been promoting a culture of entrepreneurship among the students, the funding for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Cell (IEDC) to the tune of Rupees 55 lakhs and Rupees 1.25 crores for Technology Business Incubator (TBI)
• Technology Business Incubator (TBI) with free of charge space and ICT facilities and funding of up to Rupees one lakh for six months extending to 18 months. 76 startups with a few of them already operational as industrial projects including a Bicycle factory setup at Jammu. Training opportunity for entrepreneurship development through DST sponsored and funded TBI.
• The University celebrates an Annual Innovation Day named after Hon’ble former president of India as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Innovation Conclave.
• University also aim to produce at least 200 Entrepreneurs in coming 5 years.

Student Centric

• University want to establish itself as a Student Centric Institute of higher learning with aim of achieving 100% student delight.

Chandigarh University has been recognized by rankings.

Chandigarh University Strategic Key Pillars

• Foster Excellence in Academic Programs
• Strong Corporate Connection
• Enhancing Research Success
• Global Sensitivity
• Sustainable Development of Local Communities
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Enhance alumni engagement

Foster Excellence in Academic Programs

As a University dedicated to student success and lifelong learning, Chandigarh university must continue to build programs that transform the lives of the students we serve. At the Chandigarh University education is a commitment to academic programs that reflect the highest standards, and challenge students to achieve beyond their perceived potential. Central to this commitment is a faculty who, first and foremost, value excellence in teaching and learning. With an emphasis on “individualized attention” and “academic excellence”, the University’s values of mentorship, scholarship, diversity, innovation and community will guide the student experience in and out of the classroom. Teaching and learning will be enhanced by high-impact and evidence-based practices that take fullest advantage of innovative pedagogy, technology and cross-disciplinary collaboration. We must develop programmatic opportunities to maximize the academic experience for our highest achieving undergraduates. A diverse and inclusive campus community is requisite for our students to be able to engage locally, nationally and internationally. Increasing the number of international students who study at Chandigarh university (with the requisite academic preparation and affiliated support services), as well as faculty and scholar exchanges, and creating more opportunities for our Indian students to study abroad, will assure that we are preparing our students to be global citizens.

Strong Corporate Connection

We strive to develop strong partnerships with corporates to provide opportunities for our students and faculty both for learning and practicing through consulting and internships. In addition, we provide a large pool of well-trained graduates to be recruited by top Industries. We actively encourage our faculty to do in-company projects with a view to improve their teaching and research skills. The intent is to build such engagements within as well as outside India. Our major focus is on enhancing our visibility to the corporate sector, offering customized programs and research-based consulting expertise to the corporations, and making the existing relationships with the business community stronger.

Enhancing Research Success

We will build strong research & innovation capacity in a number of targeted fields (Artificial Intelligence, environment, energy & health, information communications & media technologies), creating useful knowledge, building new materials, devices & enterprises to enhancing the university’s profile and addressing real-life challenges in innovation and achieving sustainable growth in research & innovation outputs in designated research fields.

Global Sensitivity

Our focus is to develop more global citizens with a deeper understanding of culture, business practices, history, government, politics, and geography of the regions across the globe. We are looking forward to having more international collaborative arrangements for ensuring crosscultural exposure of both our faculty and students. We are focusing on developing course content to ensure that our students develop a global perspective, expanding CU student learning experience with on-campus faculty drawn from international institutes /universities, enhancing CU faculty and student exposure to the international academic and business environment, and improving oncampus CU student peer group composition to include foreign students.

Sustainable Development of Local Communities

Our aims are to develop graduates who will be able to comprehend the holistic influence of businesses on society and local communities and are inclined to create and engage in such business solutions which contribute towards social good in a sustainable way. We want our students to realize that there are critical challenges faced by local communities which are important to be addressed while developing their business and management skills. Students should broaden community engagement and strive for achieving their capacity building and development. We would focus on broadening community engagement of the students beyond the immediate vicinity of the institute, and capacity building and community development in a sustainable way by enabling students to understand the needs and problems of the community.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Our purpose is to develop graduates with an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit who are adept at creating employment rather than looking for employment. We endeavor to offer an entrepreneurship ecosystem to our students and alumni that support entrepreneurs and start-ups with essential infrastructure, advice and mentoring. In this respect, we would make our curriculum more entrepreneurial, develop more Incubation center with more start-ups.

Enhance Alumni Engagement

Aims to develop the credibility and reputation of the university among alumni and be one of the most preferred choice for admission seekers and employment providers. Our intention is to build our market presence across India and overseas, and foster our relationships with the academic and business community and various other stakeholders across the country and globe. Further, we wish to enhance student satisfaction in every aspect. In this respect we would be developing and enhancing relations with the academic and business community, strengthening student services and infrastructure, and enhancing the on-campus learning experience of the existing students.