Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (KUK) is a university established on 11January 1956
in
Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra (, ) is a city and administrative headquarter of Kurukshetra district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is also known as Dharmakshetra ("Realm of duty ") and as the "Land of the Bhagavad Gita".
Legends
According to the Pura ...
, 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 ar ...
, from the capital,
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
.
It is a member of
Association of Commonwealth Universities
The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) was established in 1913, and has over 500 member institutions in over 50 countries across the Commonwealth. The ACU is the world's oldest international network of universities. Its mission is ...
.
History
![KU Audi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/KU_Audi.JPG)
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: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
, Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, a Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
scholar.
In 2012, the Department of philosophy introduced an academic course on Gita
The Bhagavad Gita (; sa, श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, lit=The Song by God, translit=śrīmadbhagavadgītā;), often referred to as the Gita (), is a 700- verse Hindu scripture that is part of the epic ''Mahabharata'' ( ...
.
Campus
Spread over , the KUK campus is located on the western bank of Brahma Sarovar
Brahma Sarovar is an ancient water pool sacred to Hinduism in old Kurukshetra city, in the state of Haryana in North India,India. Hinduism lays emphasis on taking bath for internal and external purity. Most religious sites have water poo ...
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 Saraswati river
The Sarasvati River () is a deified Rigvedic rivers, river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Historical Vedic religion, Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth bo ...
:
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 the ...
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, t ...
[
* Centre for advance research in earthquake studies: ]
Seismic hazard
A seismic hazard is the probability that an earthquake will occur in a given geographic area, within a given window of time, and with ground motion intensity exceeding a given threshold. With a hazard thus estimated, risk can be assessed and includ ...
map and 24x7 seismic monitoring of Haryana[
* Centre for applied ]biology
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in environment sciences:
Research on climate change
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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, the ...
[
* 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
Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, and practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics focuses on developing ne ...
[
* 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 dime ...
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
* ]Government Engineering College, Nilokheri
The State Institute of Engineering & Technology, Nilokheri (formerly Government Engineering College, Nilokheri (Hindi : राजकीय अभियांत्रिकी एवं प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, ...
* 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, c ...
, in the year 1966–1967.
See also
* List of institutions of higher education in Haryana
Universities
Haryana, India has at least 61 functional universities, including eight central university (five Institutes of National Importance (INI), one AIIMS, two general universities and one deemed university), 22 state universities, two ...
* State University of Performing And Visual Arts
State University of Performing and Visual Arts (SUPVA), is a public university in Rohtak, India. It was established in 2011 by Department of Technical Education, and principal secretary govt of Haryana and IAS Dhanpat Singh and Chief Minister o ...
* State Institute of Film and Television
The State Institute of Film and Television (SIFTV) is a Film School under the State University of Performing And Visual Arts located in Rohtak, Haryana, India. The institute was established in 2011 by the Government of Haryana to grow regiona ...
References
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Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in East Punjab
Recipients of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy