The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University came into existence in
1998 by enacting an Act No.9 of 1998 by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi as a
teaching and affiliating University. During a short span of Twelve
years, it has been able to emerge as one of the giants both in
professional and technical education. It offers wide ranging
professional and technical academic programmes in the disciplines of Engineering,
Architecture, Management, Law, Computer Applications, Journalism, Mass-
Communication, Education, Medical and Para-Medical Studies, etc. Almost
every academic programme that is offered by this University is of inter
disciplinary nature and is knowledge and creativity oriented not only
to meet the demand of today but also that of tomorrow.
Almost
instantaneously, the University came to be recognized by the University
Grants Commission both under Section 2 (f) and 12 (b) of the UGC Act.
Further it was graded as ‘A’ by the National Assessment and
Accreditation Council, Bangalore on March 31, 2007 over a period of five
years. During the course of Surveillance Audit conducted in August,
2009 by the Standardization Testing & Quality Certification
Directorate, Ministry of Communication and IT, Department of Information
Technology, Govt. of India, the ISO Certification granted to this
University has been upgraded from ISO 9001: 2000 to ISO 9001: 2008; this
we could accomplish after having met the requirements of the New
Version of ISO. The Association of Indian Universities (AIU) also
granted the Status of Regular Membership to this University in November,
2008. Further, it has been featured in 2008 Edition of the published
“Universities of India 2008” and have been honoured with an Engraved
Plaque commemorating this recognition which symbolizes as Dun &
Bradstreet – Decide with Confidence (February, 2009). Further, the
University has been selected among 250 Top Educational Institutes in
India for the Grand Book on Education, titled, ‘Star Brands Education
2010’; it is a yearly property enlisting the very best brands. We
further feel proud in adding here that the University has recently been
selected for an International Award - ‘Platinum Technology Award for
Quality and Best Trade Name’ by OMAC – Association Otherways Management
& Consulting, Paris, France in recognition of University’s
Excellence in the field of Quality & Excellence; this Award was
received by the University on December 20, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The
University has been pioneer in introducing large number of innovative
academic programmes in the emerging areas of Higher and Technical
Education such as Undergraduate Programmes in International Hospitality,
Child Guidance and Counselling, Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) and
Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) and Postgraduate
Programmes in International Business, Journalism and Mass Communication,
M.Tech. in Digital Wireless Communications, Signal Processing, RF and
Microwave Engineering, etc. Not only that introduction of certain new
academic programmes are in the pipeline in the University Schools of
Studies. Important among these include M.Tech. (Food &
Nutraceuticals) and Sandwich Programme in collaboration with DAAD
(Germany) for M.Tech. & Ph.D. in the University School of
Biotechnology, M.Tech. (Mathematics & Computing) in the University
School of Basic and Applied Sciences and MBA & BBA with facility to
specialize in Financial Markets and Hospitality Management in the
University School of Management Studies.
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