Panjab University

Panjab University, commonly abbreviated as PU, is a collegiate public state university in Chandigarh, India, and it traces its origin to the University of the Punjab, founded at Lahore on 14 October 1882.旁遮普大学（Panjab University，简称PU）是印度昌迪加尔的一所公立学院型大学，其历史可追溯至1882年10月14日在拉合尔创办的旁遮普大学。

After the partition of India the institution was re-established on 1 October 1947 as East Punjab University, and it moved to its present red sandstone campus in Chandigarh in the 1950s.印度分治后，该校于1947年10月1日以东旁遮普大学之名重新设立，并于1950年代迁入昌迪加尔现址的红砂岩校园。

It has 74 teaching and research departments, some 202 affiliated colleges and about 13,000 students in its own departments, and it was placed in the 1001-1200 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.该校设74个教学与研究系、约202所附属学院，本校各系学生约一万三千人，并在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第1001-1200位区间。

History

• The University of the Punjab was established on 14 October 1882 at Lahore, in what was then British India, and it became one of the oldest universities in the subcontinent.旁遮普大学于1882年10月14日在当时的英属印度拉合尔设立，成为次大陆历史最悠久的大学之一。
• A Department of Laws was established at Lahore in 1889, the forerunner of the university's present law department and of a long tradition of legal education.法律系于1889年在拉合尔设立，是该校今日法律系的前身，也开启了其悠久的法学教育传统。
• After the partition of India in 1947, the Punjab Partition Committee debated the future of the university, and its senate voted to divide it, though the Partition Council could reach no decision.1947年印度分治后，旁遮普分治委员会曾就该大学的归属进行讨论，其评议会表决决定将其拆分，但中央的分治委员会未能作出决议。
• With no university for the colleges of its territory, the government of East Punjab brought an ordinance on 27 September 1947 to create a new university.由于辖区内各学院没有可依托的大学，东旁遮普政府于1947年9月27日颁布法令，筹设一所新的大学。
• The new university was established on 1 October 1947 at Solan in the Indian Punjab and was named East Punjab University, taking over the colleges of the divided institution.新大学于1947年10月1日在印度旁遮普的索兰成立，名为东旁遮普大学，并接管了原被拆分大学的各附属学院。
• For nearly a decade the university had no campus of its own, with its administrative office in Solan and teaching departments working from Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Delhi and Amritsar.此后近十年间，该校没有自己的校园，行政办公室设于索兰，各教学系则分散在霍希亚尔布尔、贾朗达尔、德里与阿姆利则等地办学。
• In 1950 the name of the institution was shortened to Panjab University, which it has retained ever since.1950年，该校名称被简化为旁遮普大学，并沿用至今。
• The law department, re-established at Shimla in 1948 and moved to Jalandhar in 1950, was finally relocated to the Chandigarh campus in 1959.法律系于1948年在西姆拉重新设立，1950年迁至贾朗达尔，最终于1959年迁入昌迪加尔校园。
• In 1956 the university moved to Chandigarh, onto a campus built in red sandstone and laid out by the Swiss-French architect Pierre Jeanneret under the guidance of Le Corbusier.1956年，该校迁至昌迪加尔，新校园以红砂岩建造，由瑞士裔法国建筑师皮埃尔·让纳雷在勒·柯布西耶指导下规划布局。
• The foundation stone of the Central Library was laid in 1958 by Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, then Vice-President of India, and the building was formally inaugurated in 1963 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.中央图书馆的奠基石于1958年由时任印度副总统萨瓦帕利·拉达克里希南安放，图书馆大楼则于1963年由总理贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁正式揭幕。
• The University Institute for Chemical Engineering and Technology shifted to its present Chandigarh premises in 1958, having earlier worked with the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.化学工程与技术学院于1958年迁入昌迪加尔现址，此前曾与芝加哥的伊利诺伊理工学院合作。
• With the reorganisation of Punjab in 1966 the university became an inter-state body corporate serving the reorganised state of Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh.1966年旁遮普邦重组后，该校成为跨邦法人机构，服务于重组后的旁遮普邦与昌迪加尔联邦属地。
• The Museum of Fine Arts was inaugurated in 1968 and the Student Centre, known as StuC, was opened in 1975 as a hub of student activity.美术博物馆于1968年落成，名为StuC的学生中心则于1975年启用，成为学生活动的枢纽。
• The Energy Research Centre was established at the university in 1983 to promote research and extension work in renewable energy.能源研究中心于1983年在该校设立，以推动可再生能源领域的研究与推广工作。
• In 1995 the Department of Commerce and Business Management was rechristened the University Business School, reorganising its teaching of commerce and management.1995年，商业与管理系更名为大学商学院，重组其商学与管理教学。
• The Internal Quality Assurance Cell was established on 1 May 2003 to sustain the university's quality-assurance and accreditation work.内部质量保障机构于2003年5月1日成立，以维持该校的质量保障与认证工作。
• The University Institute of Legal Studies began as a constituent department in the 2004-05 academic session, offering integrated five-year law degrees.大学法律研究所自2004至2005学年起作为校内组成院系开设，提供五年制一体化法学学位课程。
• Further institutes followed, among them the University Institute of Applied Management Sciences in 2008 and the University Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management in 2009.此后又相继设立其他院所，其中包括2008年的应用管理科学学院与2009年的酒店与旅游管理学院。
• In April 2024 the university became one of the first in India to grant menstrual leave to female students, allowing one day per month of teaching up to four days a semester.2024年4月，该校成为印度最早给予女学生生理假的大学之一，允许每个教学月一天、每学期最多四天。
• Renu Vig became the university's first woman vice-chancellor in 2022, and in July 2026 Meenakshi Goyal took office as vice-chancellor.2022年，雷努·维格成为该校首位女性副校长；2026年7月，米纳克希·戈亚尔就任副校长。

Academics

• The university comprises 74 teaching and research departments together with some 15 centres and chairs, grouped under eleven faculties on its Chandigarh campus.该校在昌迪加尔校园设74个教学与研究系以及约15个中心与讲席，分属十一个学院。
• The faculties cover Arts, Science, Languages, Law, Education, Design and Fine Arts, Business Management and Commerce, Engineering and Technology, Hotel Management and Tourism, Medical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences.各学院涵盖文、理、语言、法律、教育、设计与美术、商业管理与商学、工程与技术、酒店管理与旅游、医学以及药学等领域。
• The University Institute of Engineering and Technology is the on-campus engineering institute, offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in engineering.工程与技术学院是校内的工程学院，开设工程类学士、硕士与博士课程。
• The University Institute for Chemical Engineering and Technology occupies an institute building with an internal Energy Research Institute added in 1983.化学工程与技术学院设于一座独立的学院大楼内，其内部于1983年增设了能源研究所。
• Two departments teach law, the Department of Laws and the University Institute of Legal Studies, and they are the alma mater of three Chief Justices of India.该校有两个院系教授法律，即法律系大学法律研究所，两者共培养了三位印度首席大法官。
• The Faculty of Business Management and Commerce runs the University Business School, the University Institute of Applied Management Sciences and the University Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management.商业与管理学院下设大学商学院、应用管理科学学院以及酒店与旅游管理学院。
• The Institute of Social Science Education and Research offers a five-year integrated honours master's degree in the social sciences.社会科学教育与研究所提供五年制一体化的社会科学荣誉硕士学位课程。
• In the 2023-24 academic year the university recorded 12,810 students enrolled in its own departments, alongside more than two hundred thousand students in its affiliated colleges.2023至2024学年，该校本校各系在校学生为12810人，其附属学院的学生总数则超过二十万人。
• Panjab University was accredited with the NAAC A++ grade and a CGPA of 3.68 in August 2023, its highest accreditation result to date.旁遮普大学于2023年8月获全国评估与认证委员会A++等级与国家通用成绩点均值3.68，是其迄今最高的认证结果。
• In the 2025 National Institutional Ranking Framework the university's pharmacy programme was ranked third in India, after seventh in 2024 and third in 2022.在2025年全国院校排名框架中，该校药学位列印度第三，此前2024年排名第七、2022年排名第三。
• The university also runs six constituent colleges across Punjab, at Balachaur, Mokham Khan Wala, Nihalsingh Wala, Dharamkot, Sikhwala and Guru Har Sahai, extending its teaching into rural districts.该校还在旁遮普邦各地设有六所组成学院，分别位于巴拉乔尔、莫坎汗瓦拉、尼哈尔辛格瓦拉、达兰科特、锡克瓦拉与古鲁哈尔萨海，将其教学延伸至农村地区。
• The university has been recognised by the University Grants Commission as a university with potential for excellence in bio-medical sciences, with facilities for stem cell research and drug development.该校获大学拨款委员会认定为在生物医学科学领域具有卓越潜力的大学，并设有干细胞研究与药物开发设施。
• The university is one of six Indian centres for supercomputing facilities serving the north-western region under the government's technology assessment body, and it provides internet connections to more than 1,800 terminals.该校是印度六个超级计算设施中心之一，在政府技术评估机构支持下服务西北地区，并为逾1800个终端提供互联网接入。
• The Energy Research Centre, established in 1983, is designated a nodal agency for renewable-energy programmes and a regional testing centre for solar thermal equipment.1983年设立的能源研究中心被指定为可再生能源计划的节点机构，以及太阳能热利用设备的地区测试中心。
• The centre has provided consultancy on renewable energy and environmental protection to countries of the Asia-Pacific region, among them the Maldives, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.该中心曾就可再生能源与环境保护向亚太地区的马尔代夫、孟加拉国、斯里兰卡与缅甸等国提供咨询。
• The university took part in the CMS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva with a grant of about 24.9 million rupees from the Government of India.该校以印度政府约2490万卢比的资助，参与了日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机的CMS实验。
• The Indian Council of Social Science Research has established its North-Western Regional Centre on the campus, running a library, seminar complex and guest house.印度社会科学研究理事会在该校校园设立了西北地区中心，下辖图书馆、研讨综合楼与访问学者招待所。
• OpenAlex credits the university with about 35,012 research works and roughly 3,207,370 citations, a substantial scholarly output for a state university of its size.OpenAlex收录该校约35,012项研究成果与约3,207,370次被引用，对其规模的州立大学而言科研产出可观。
• Most departments maintain their own libraries, and the university's Central Library holds some 670,000 titles, making it one of the largest in northern India.多数院系设有各自的图书室，而该校中央图书馆藏书约67万种，是北印度规模最大的图书馆之一。

Campus

• The main campus covers about 550 acres in Sector 14 and Sector 25 of Chandigarh, the planned city designed by Le Corbusier in the 1950s.主校区占地约550英亩，位于昌迪加尔第14与第25区，这座规划城市由勒·柯布西耶于1950年代设计。
• The campus has a chequerboard layout devised by the Swiss-French architect Pierre Jeanneret, with teaching areas in the north-east and residential areas in the south-east.校园采用瑞士裔法国建筑师皮埃尔·让纳雷设计的棋盘式布局，教学区位于东北部，居住区位于东南部。
• The red sandstone Central Library, named after the former Vice-Chancellor A. C. Joshi, was begun in 1958 and inaugurated in 1963 and holds some 670,000 titles.以已故副校长A. C. 乔希命名的红砂岩中央图书馆于1958年动工、1963年落成，藏书约67万种。
• The Gandhi Bhawan, also designed by Pierre Jeanneret, is an auditorium that sits in the middle of a pond and houses a collection of books on Mahatma Gandhi.甘地宫同样由皮埃尔·让纳雷设计，是一座坐落于水池中央的会堂，并收藏有一批关于圣雄甘地的书籍。
• The Student Centre, inaugurated in 1975, is a major landmark of the city and houses the office of the Dean of University Welfare and the students' council.学生中心于1975年落成，是该市的重要地标，内设大学福利院长办公室与学生理事会。
• The Museum of Fine Arts, inaugurated in 1968, is a red sandstone heritage building holding contemporary Indian paintings and sculptures by artists such as Jamini Roy and M. F. Husain.美术博物馆于1968年落成，为红砂岩历史建筑，收藏有贾米尼·罗伊、M. F. 侯赛因等艺术家的印度当代绘画与雕塑。
• The campus is residential, with hostels for men and women, a working women's hostel and an international hostel for foreign and non-resident Indian students.该校校园为住宿型，设有男生宿舍、女生宿舍、职业女性宿舍，以及供外国学生与海外印度裔学生居住的国际宿舍。
• Among the campus facilities are a health centre, a sports complex with a gymnasium and swimming pool, and a dolphinarium.校内设施包括健康中心、配备体育馆与游泳池的运动综合体，以及一座海豚馆。
• The south campus in Sector 25 houses the University Institute of Engineering and Technology, the dental sciences institute and hospital, and the applied management and biological sciences institutes.位于第25区的南校区设工程与技术学院、牙科科学与医院，以及应用管理与生物科学各院所。
• Three regional centres at Ludhiana, Muktsar and Hoshiarpur, and a rural centre at Kauni, extend the university's teaching beyond Chandigarh.该校还在卢迪亚纳、穆克萨尔与霍希亚尔布尔设有三个地区中心，并在考尼设有农村中心，将其教学延伸至昌迪加尔之外。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings, Panjab University is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a shared range rather than a single position.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，旁遮普大学位列第1001-1200位区间，属并列区间而非单一席位。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 701-800 band, its strongest placement among the major global tables.在2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列第701-800位区间，是其在主要全球榜单中的最佳位次。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it stands at number 713 in the world.在2026-2027年度US News全球最佳大学排名中，该校位居全球第713位。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by ShanghaiRanking, places the university in the 901-1000 band.软科发布的2026年世界大学学术排名把该校列入第901-1000位区间。
• The university was accredited with the NAAC A++ grade and a CGPA of 3.68 in August 2023, the best result in its four accreditation cycles since 2001.该校于2023年8月获全国评估与认证委员会A++等级与国家通用成绩点均值3.68，是其自2001年以来四轮认证中的最佳结果。
• In the 2025 National Institutional Ranking Framework it was ranked 35th among Indian universities, 57th overall and third in pharmacy.在2025年全国院校排名框架中，该校在印度大学中排名第35位、综合排名第57位，药学排名第三。
• The Centre for World University Rankings placed the university within the top 3.9 per cent of higher-education institutions worldwide in its 2025 edition.世界大学排名中心在其2025年版榜单中将该校列入全球高等教育机构的前3.9%。
• Within India the university is especially recognised for pharmacy and law, and its pharmacy faculty has ranked among the top ten nationally in every National Institutional Ranking Framework edition since 2022.在印度国内，该校尤以药学与法学著称，其药学院自2022年以来的每一版全国院校排名中均位列全国前十。
• Earlier tables placed the university in the 1001-1200 band of the 2025 QS World University Rankings and in the 801-1000 band of the 2023 Times Higher Education ranking.更早的榜单曾将该校列入2025年QS世界大学排名的第1001-1200位区间，以及2023年泰晤士高等教育排名的第801-1000位区间。
• OpenAlex attributes about 35,012 research works and roughly 3,207,370 citations to the university, reflecting its standing as a leading research institution in the region.OpenAlex收录该校约35,012项研究成果与约3,207,370次被引用，体现其作为该地区重要研究机构的地位。
• The university is widely regarded as the leading university in the states of Punjab and Haryana and in the union territory of Chandigarh.该校被普遍视为旁遮普邦、哈里亚纳邦与昌迪加尔联邦属地中首屈一指的大学。

Student life

• The university's motto is the Sanskrit phrase Tamso ma jyotir gamaya, rendered in English as lead us into the light from darkness.该校校训为梵文语句「Tamso ma jyotir gamaya」，其英文意为「引领我们从黑暗走向光明」。
• The Student Centre is the hub of student activity, housing the Panjab University Campus Students Council and the office of the Dean of Student Welfare.学生中心是学生活动的枢纽，内设旁遮普大学校园学生理事会与学务长办公室。
• The university has been awarded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy sixteen times, most recently in 2021, the highest Indian award for inter-university sport.该校曾十六次获得毛拉纳·阿布·卡拉姆·阿扎德奖杯，最近一次为2021年，这是印度校际体育的最高奖项。
• The Directorate of Sports organises about 70 inter-college and several inter-university competitions each year and arranges training camps in 62 sports.体育处每年组织约70项院际比赛与多项校际比赛，并在62个运动项目中安排训练营。
• The students' council organises youth festivals, debates and cultural events, and the engineering institutes run their own festivals such as Cyanide and Goonj.学生理事会举办青年节、辩论与文化等活动，各工程学院亦自办Cyanide与Goonj等节庆。
• Convocation and degree ceremonies are held on the campus, and the students' council includes departmental representatives elected from the university's teaching departments.毕业典礼与学位颁授仪式均在校内举行，学生理事会则由各教学系选出的院系代表组成。
• In a 2015 referendum organised by the university, students voted in favour of a vehicle-free campus in the academic areas.在2015年由校方组织的公投中，学生投票支持在教学区实行无车校园。
• Campus life is residential, with hostels, a health centre, a sports complex and a swimming pool serving students who come from across India.校园生活为住宿型，宿舍、健康中心、运动综合体与游泳池服务于来自印度各地的学生。
• The central library, the Gandhi Bhawan and the Student Centre are the social and cultural anchors of the campus.中央图书馆、甘地宫与学生中心是该校校园的社交与文化地标。
• Chandigarh's Sukhna Lake, Rock Garden and the grid of sector markets lie within reach of the campus, shaping the daily life of students.昌迪加尔的苏赫纳湖、岩石园与棋盘式的分区市场均在校园可达范围内，塑造着学生的日常生活。

Notable people

• Manmohan Singh, the economist who served as Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014, was both a student and a member of the faculty at Panjab University.2004年至2014年出任印度总理的经济学家曼莫汉·辛格，既是旁遮普大学的学生，也曾在该校任教。
• Sushma Swaraj, who served as Minister of External Affairs from 2014 to 2019, took her law degree at Panjab University, Chandigarh.2014年至2019年出任外交部长的苏什玛·斯瓦拉吉，其法学学位在昌迪加尔的旁遮普大学取得。
• Jagdish Singh Khehar, who served as Chief Justice of India in 2017, took his law degree at the university in 1977 and his master's in law in 1979.2017年出任印度首席大法官的贾格迪什·辛格·凯哈尔，于1977年在该校取得法学学位、1979年取得法学硕士学位。
• Adarsh Sein Anand, Chief Justice of India from 1998 to 2001, taught in the university's Department of Laws for a number of years.1998年至2001年任印度首席大法官的阿达尔什·塞因·阿南德，曾在该校法律系任教多年。
• Manohar Singh Gill, a former Chief Election Commissioner of India and Union Minister, was an alumnus of the university's Department of Public Administration.曾任印度首席选举专员与联邦部长的马诺哈尔·辛格·吉尔，是该校公共管理系的校友。
• Sarvesh Chandra Chowla, the mathematician who worked on the Riemann hypothesis and taught at the university, is counted among its distinguished faculty.研究黎曼假设并在该校任教的数学家萨维什·钱德拉·乔拉，被列为该校的杰出教师之一。
• Renu Vig, an academic who served as the university's fourteenth vice-chancellor and its first woman vice-chancellor, took office in 2022.学者雷努·维格于2022年就任该校第十四任副校长，也是该校首位女性副校长。
• Indu Pal Kaur, a professor of pharmaceutics at the university, received India's National Intellectual Property Award for 2021 and 2022 as a leading individual patent filer.该校药剂学教授英杜·帕尔·考尔因在个人专利申请方面表现突出，获得2021与2022年度印度国家知识产权奖。
• The university's Department of Laws alone counts three Chief Justices of India, together with numerous High Court judges, cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats among its alumni.仅该校法律系一家，便培养了三位印度首席大法官，以及众多高等法院法官、内阁部长与高级官员。
• Pierre Jeanneret, the architect who designed the university's master plan and the Gandhi Bhawan, is honoured in the campus he shaped.设计该校总平面图与甘地宫的建筑师皮埃尔·让纳雷，在其塑造的校园中受人纪念。