Some
amazing facts you got to know about these universities…
Delhi
University
#1. In 1922 when the
University was first established there were only three colleges (St. Stephens,
Hindu and Ramjas College) with two faculties of Arts and Science and 750
students. Currently, there are 16 faculties, 77 colleges, 86 departments,
132435 regular students and 261169 students part of informal programmes.
#2. There a never ending list of DU famous pas-outs like, Narendra Modi, Arjun Rampal (Hindu College) , Minissha
Lamba, SRK, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Ritu Beri, Amitav
Ghosh, Khushwant Singh, Montek Singh Alluhwalia and this list ever ends.
#3. The Northern Ridge which falls under the North
Campus of DU is not just a place for your evening walks and the hub for love
activities but is also a place of historical importance. The Flagstaff Tower in
the ridge which would look like any other ancient building is actually where
the Revolt of 1857 finally came to an end. The ridge also has the Ashokan
Pillar which was shifted from Meerut to Delhi by Firoz Shah Tughluq in 1356.
Amity University
#1.
Amity was India’s first private
university slated to implement reservation based on caste for both faculty as
well as students.
#2. The Indian cricket
team captain Mahendra
Singh Dhoni is
the brand ambassador of Amity University. Dhoni’s bat support the logo of Amity University and Aditi Arya, Miss
India 2015, studied at Amity International, Delhi.
#3. Amity
University Lucknow campus is the not only the most
beautiful among all Amity campuses but also among all
campuses in the whole of Uttar Pradesh.
Lovely Professional University (LPU)
#1. LPU has over 18,000 students in hostels and
72,000 meals are made every day for them with an approximate total of 2,88,000
chapatis everyday using machines similar to that installed in Golden Temple, Amritsar.
#2. TV Channel Star News conferred National
'Outstanding B-School - North' Award and B-School Leadership - National' Award
to LPU in 2011
#3. IGI Airport, Delhi is considered to be India's
most secure place with 2500 cctv cameras installed and LPU easily beats that
with over 3500 cctv cameras around campus which record over 20 terabytes of
video footage everyday.
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
#1. Indian Government is spending 18 to 26 million dollars every
year on each IIT. If we consider 6 IIT’s then the amount becomes 156 million US
dollars.
#2. Several companies recruit from IIT with
packages in excess of 150,000 $ (90 + lakhs) and the highest till date is 1.5
crores per year. The most popular branches to receive these packages include
Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical and Aeronautics Engineering.
#3.
IIT Madras has the largest
population of students who wake up in the mornings to eat their mess food.
Inspite of the qualms about the food served on campus, it has registered over
6,380 out of 8,000 students as regular attendees at its mess in the morning,
which is by far the largest percentage of any college population in India to
attend breakfast as an event.
#4. The iit also have a
long list of famous alumni Kiran Bedi, Chetan Bhagat, Sachin Bansal, Rajat
Gupta, Jaynat Sinha and many more.
BITS
#1.
BITS PILANI has campuses at
Pilani, Hyderabad, Goa and Dubai and all these campuses are interconnected
through BITS CONNECT 2.0 – a million dollar project. This allows a student from
the Hyderabad campus to not only attend lectures at Pilani but can also able to
interact online and can ask live questions, which is something happening for
the first time in India. This is a perfect combination of remote learning and
participatory coursework with remote recruitment and collaborative research.
#2. The alumni
participation in the development of the institute has been ever increasing
since the inception of BITSAA. There are regular meetings between aumini and
students where alumini share their experiences during college life and throw
some light on how to gain maximum from this temple of knowledge. Some of the
alumini visited are
: Sabeer Bhatia - founder of Hotmail , Vivek Paul - former vice chairman Wipro,
Baba Kalyani chairman of Bharat Forge.
#3. At the BITS Pilani, there isn’t any kind of
reservation for anybody. Administration here believes that reservation can
hardly play a part in the progress and advancement of the country. Every single
student at BITS Pilani is equal and there are no special privileges for anybody.
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