Chandigarh: Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar has been ranked as the top state public university of Punjab and 51 among all the central, public and private universities that participated in National Institute Rankings
GNDU has also been ranked 18th among the state funded universities in the country. The NIRF-2020 rankings were released by Union minister for human resource development Ramesh Pokhriyal at New Delhi.
Punjab higher education minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa congratulated GNDU for the achievement. He said this would encourage and motivate the students for studying in public universities of the state.
Higher education secretary Rahul Bhandari said this year two state public universities of Punjab are ranked among the first 100 in NIRF-2020 rankings. GNDU improved its ranking from 55th to 51st position.
Punjabi University, Patiala has also improved its ranking from beyond 100 last year to 64th rank. Its vice-chancellor Prof B S Ghuman said it was a remarkable achievement in the history of the university. He added that this will not only benefit the university to get the government funds but will also help in getting a boost in the admissions.
Central University of Punjab(CUP) at Bathinda got 87th rank with a score of 40.93 points. The varsity improved by eight positions this year from the 95th rank.
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