Pondicherry University

Pondicherry University is a central research university in Kalapet, Puducherry, India, established by an Act of Parliament in 1985 under the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education.本地治里大学（Pondicherry University）是印度本地治里卡拉佩特的一所中央研究型大学，1985 年依据议会法案在教育部高等教育司主持下设立。

Its jurisdiction extends over the Union Territory of Puducherry, Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and it operates 15 schools, 39 departments and 12 centres on a 780-acre campus facing the Bay of Bengal.该校管辖范围覆盖本地治里联邦属地、拉克沙群岛以及安达曼和尼科巴群岛，在面向孟加拉湾的 780 英亩校园内设 15 个学院、39 个系与 12 个中心。

About 6,000 students study on campus while some 35,000 more are enrolled in its 89 affiliated colleges, and it sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1201-1400 band of THE 2027 and 2,011th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking.约 6000 名学生在校就读，另有约 3.5 万人就读于其 89 所附属学院，该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 1201-1400 区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球榜单中位列第 2011 位。

History

• Pondicherry University was created by an Act of Parliament in 1985, making it one of the central universities established by the Government of India rather than by a state legislature.本地治里大学于 1985 年依据议会法案创设，属于印度联邦政府而非邦议会设立的中央大学。
• The university was designed to serve the Union Territory of Puducherry and the surrounding regions, and its jurisdiction was later extended to Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.该校最初旨在服务本地治里联邦属地及周边地区，其管辖范围后来扩展至拉克沙群岛以及安达曼和尼科巴群岛。
• Because it spans territories located in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh as well as island groups, the university describes its student body and mandate as having an all-India or national character.由于其辖区横跨泰米尔纳德、喀拉拉与安得拉邦以及多个岛屿，校方称其学生构成与办学使命具有全印度性质。
• The Vice President of India serves as chancellor ex officio, the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry as chief rector, and the President of India as visitor of the university.印度副总统当然担任校监，本地治里副总督担任首席学监，印度总统则担任大学监察人。
• The Ananda Ranga Pillai Library was established in September 1986 with one deputy librarian and two assistant librarians, and it moved into its own building in July 1990.阿南达·兰加·皮莱图书馆于 1986 年 9 月设立，初创时仅有一名副馆长与两名助理馆员，1990 年 7 月迁入独立馆舍。
• In 1992 the university created the University Science Instrumentation Centre under a UGC plan scheme, with mechanical, glass-blowing and electrical workshops for repairing and fabricating research equipment.1992 年，该校依据大学拨款委员会的计划设立大学科学仪器中心，配置机械、吹玻璃与电气车间，用于维修和制造科研设备。
• In 2005 that centre was reorganised as the Central Instrumentation Facility under the School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences, adding analytical instruments to its workshop services.2005 年，该中心重组为物理、化学与应用科学学院下属的中央仪器设施，在车间服务之外增加了分析仪器。
• J. A. K. Tareen, vice-chancellor from 2007 to 2012, started more than 20 new departments, recruited over 300 faculty and added campuses at Karaikal and in the Andaman Islands.2007 至 2012 年任校长的 J. A. K. 塔林新设 20 多个系，招聘 300 多名教师，并在卡里卡尔与安达曼群岛增设校区。
• Under Tareen the university also added more than 80 new academic programmes and moved its NAAC accreditation from B grade, where it had stood for two decades, to A grade.在塔林任内，该校还新增 80 多个学术项目，并把长期停留在 B 级的 NAAC 认证提升至 A 级。
• In the first National Institutional Ranking Framework exercise the university was placed among the top 11 Indian universities, a result it cites as evidence of its post-2012 turnaround.在首轮国家机构排名框架评估中，该校跻身印度大学前 11 名，校方以此作为 2012 年后转型的证据。
• Puduvai Vaani, the university's community radio station, began test transmissions on 23 August 2008 at 107.8 MHz and was inaugurated on 27 December 2008 by V. Narayanasamy.该校社区广播电台“普杜瓦伊之音”于 2008 年 8 月 23 日以 107.8 兆赫开始试播，2008 年 12 月 27 日由 V. 纳拉亚纳萨米主持启用。
• Full-time transmission began on 1 January 2009, and the station was planned to reach listeners within a radius of several kilometres around the Kalapet campus.电台于 2009 年 1 月 1 日开始全天播出，覆盖范围以卡拉佩特校园为中心、半径数公里。
• The university marked its silver jubilee in 2010, with a valedictory function on 18 October 2010 addressed by C. Rangarajan, then chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.该校于 2010 年庆祝建校二十五周年，2010 年 10 月 18 日的闭幕式由时任总理经济顾问委员会主席 C. 兰加拉詹发表主旨演讲。
• The Pondicherry University Quiz Society was formed in June 2012, with its formal inauguration held on 1 August 2011 and its first quizmaster, Nikhil Kurien Jacob, leading the opening event.本地治里大学知识问答社团于 2012 年 6 月成立，其正式启用仪式于 2011 年 8 月 1 日举行，首任社长尼基尔·库里恩·雅各布主持了首场活动。
• The Earth Sciences Club was founded in September 2013 and has since organised field trips, documentary screenings, debates, quizzes and the annual Mrittika programme.地球科学俱乐部于 2013 年 9 月成立，此后组织野外考察、纪录片放映、辩论、知识竞赛以及一年一度的“Mrittika”活动。
• SPECTRA, a student group for LGBTQIA+ students and allies, was founded on 15 August 2014 and organised one of India's first Campus Pride events in 2018.面向 LGBTQIA+ 学生及支持者的学生团体 SPECTRA 于 2014 年 8 月 15 日成立，并于 2018 年组织了印度最早的校园骄傲活动之一。
• PU SHARE, a student charity, has operated since 2016 and supports children at Snehalayam, an orphanage near the campus, through tutoring, food drives and blood donation.学生慈善组织 PU SHARE 自 2016 年起运作，通过课业辅导、食品募捐与献血支持校园附近孤儿院“斯内哈拉亚姆”的儿童。
• In March 2025 P. Prakash Babu was appointed vice-chancellor, taking charge of a university that had reorganised its schools and expanded its research profile over the previous decade.2025 年 3 月，P. 普拉卡什·巴布获任校长，接手这所在过去十年间完成学院重组并扩大研究布局的大学。
• The campus began with a much smaller academic structure in the 1980s, and its present 15-school, 39-department and 12-centre organisation is the result of successive reorganisations.该校校园在 1980 年代起步时学术架构远小于今天，现有的 15 个学院、39 个系与 12 个中心是历次重组的结果。
• Its community college, described by THE as the first set up by an Indian university, grew out of vocational programmes designed for local school leavers and adult learners.该校的社区学院被泰晤士高等教育称为印度大学创办的首所社区学院，源于面向本地中学毕业生与成人学习者设计的职业课程。
• The university's silver jubilee history records that its early growth depended on UGC plan funds, which financed buildings, equipment and faculty positions through the 1990s and 2000s.该校二十五周年校史记载，其早期发展依赖大学拨款委员会的计划资金，这些资金在 1990 年代与 2000 年代支撑了建筑、设备与教师岗位。

Academics

• The university's 15 schools, 39 departments and 12 centres offer more than 140 postgraduate and research programmes, according to its QS profile.根据其 QS 资料，该校 15 个学院、39 个系与 12 个中心开设 140 多个研究生与研究型项目。
• The School of Management contains departments of management studies, commerce, economics, tourism studies, banking technology and international business, and it also runs management and commerce teaching at Karaikal.管理学院下设管理研究、商业、经济、旅游研究、银行技术与国际商务等系，并在卡里卡尔开展管理与商业教学。
• The Ramanujan School of Mathematical Sciences houses mathematics and statistics, and it is named after the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.拉马努金数学科学学院设数学与统计系，以印度数学家斯里尼瓦萨·拉马努金命名。
• The School of Engineering and Technology teaches computer science, electronics engineering, coastal engineering and geological technology, and hosts a centre for pollution control and environmental engineering.工程与技术学院开设计算机科学、电子工程、海岸工程与地质技术，并设污染控制与环境工程中心。
• The School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences covers physics, chemistry, earth sciences, applied psychology and coastal disaster management, with the latter taught at the Andaman campus.物理、化学与应用科学学院涵盖物理、化学、地球科学、应用心理学与海岸灾害管理，其中海岸灾害管理在安达曼校区授课。
• The School of Life Sciences includes bioinformatics, biotechnology, ecology and environmental sciences, ocean studies and marine biology, food science, biochemistry and microbiology.生命科学学院包括生物信息学、生物技术、生态与环境科学、海洋研究与海洋生物学、食品科学、生物化学与微生物学。
• The School of Humanities teaches English and comparative literature, French, Hindi, Sanskrit, philosophy and physical education, reflecting Puducherry's Tamil and French linguistic heritage.人文学院开设英语与比较文学、法语、印地语、梵语、哲学与体育，反映本地治里的泰米尔与法语语言传统。
• The School of Social Sciences and International Studies covers anthropology, archaeology, history, politics and international studies, social work, sociology and women's studies.社会科学与国际研究学院涵盖人类学、考古学、历史、政治与国际研究、社会工作、社会学与妇女研究。
• Its named research centres include the Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Cooperation and the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy.其具名研究中心包括马丹吉特·辛格南亚区域合作研究所以及社会排斥与包容政策研究中心。
• The School of Education runs teacher education and adult and continuing education, while the School of Law offers integrated law programmes and the School of Medical Sciences coordinates health-related teaching.教育学院开展教师教育以及成人与继续教育，法学院开设整合式法律课程，医学院则协调健康相关教学。
• The School of Media and Communication teaches library and information science alongside electronic media and mass communication, combining traditional and digital information skills.媒体与传播学院在电子媒体与大众传播之外还教授图书馆与信息学，兼顾传统与数字信息技能。
• The Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technologies houses the Centre for Nano Science and Technology and the Department of Green Energy Technology, one of its fastest-growing research areas.马丹吉特绿色能源技术学院下设纳米科学与技术中心与绿色能源技术系，是该校发展最快的研究领域之一。
• The Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language and Literature preserves and studies Tamil letters in a territory where Tamil is the majority language.苏布拉马尼亚·巴拉蒂泰米尔语言文学学院在泰米尔语占多数的本地治里保存与研究泰米尔文学。
• The university has 89 affiliated colleges, according to THE, spread across Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahé, Yanam, Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.据泰晤士高等教育统计，该校拥有 89 所附属学院，分布在本地区、卡里卡尔、马埃、亚南、拉克沙群岛以及安达曼和尼科巴群岛。
• Those colleges teach engineering, medicine, nursing, dentistry, education, arts and sciences, and the university sets curricula and examinations for their degree programmes.这些学院开设工程、医学、护理、牙科、教育、文科与理科课程，大学为其学位项目制定课程与考试标准。
• Among the affiliated institutions are Pondicherry Engineering College, the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute and the Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College.附属院校包括本地治里工程学院、英迪拉·甘地医学院与研究所以及安贝德卡政府法学院。
• Enrolment is about 6,000 on the main campus and 35,000 across the affiliated colleges, while its QS profile reports 9,769 total students and 477 faculty members.主校区在校生约 6000 人，附属学院合计约 3.5 万人，其 QS 资料则显示学生总数为 9769 人、教师 477 人。
• The Ananda Ranga Pillai Library provides 24-hour remote access to about 497,000 resources, including 251,000 print items and 340,000 electronic resources.阿南达·兰加·皮莱图书馆提供约 49.7 万种资源的 24 小时远程访问，其中包括 25.1 万种纸质资源与 34 万种电子资源。
• The Central Instrumentation Facility maintains mechanical, glass-blowing and electrical workshops and offers analytical services to students and outside researchers.中央仪器设施维持机械、吹玻璃与电气车间，并为学生与校外研究者提供分析测试服务。
• The university provides free education, board and lodging to physically challenged students, rent-free hostel accommodation to women and a hostel for more than 30 foreign students.该校为残障学生提供免费教育、食宿，为女生提供免租宿舍，并设有可容纳 30 多名留学生的宿舍。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 780 acres in Kalapet on the East Coast Road, facing the Bay of Bengal and set among casuarina groves and open lawns.主校区位于东海岸公路旁的卡拉佩特，占地约 780 英亩，面向孟加拉湾，周围是木麻黄林与开阔草坪。
• The university has two smaller campuses, one at Karaikal about 150 kilometres south and one at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.该校另有两个较小校区，一个位于以南约 150 公里的卡里卡尔，一个位于安达曼和尼科巴群岛的布莱尔港。
• The campus is Wi-Fi enabled and includes academic buildings, laboratories, hostels and staff housing within a single green site rather than dispersed city buildings.校园实现无线网络覆盖，教学建筑、实验室、学生宿舍与教职工住宅集中在一片绿地之内，而非分散于城市各处。
• On-campus facilities include a shopping centre, a bank, a post office, a gymnasium and a 24-hour hospital with a fully equipped ambulance.校内设施包括购物中心、银行、邮局、健身房以及配有完备救护车的 24 小时医院。
• Hostels are provided for men and women, students from distant states receive priority on a first-come basis, and the separate foreign students' hostel accommodates more than 30 residents.学校设有男女生宿舍，来自远地的学生按先到先得原则优先安排，独立的留学生宿舍可容纳 30 多人。
• The university provides free transport within and off campus, a service that matters because the site lies outside Puducherry's historic grid and its commercial centre.该校提供校内外免费交通，这一服务十分重要，因为校园位于本地治里历史城区与商业中心之外。
• The Ananda Ranga Pillai Library occupies its own building opened in July 1990 and is named after the eighteenth-century Dubash and diarist of French Pondicherry.阿南达·兰加·皮莱图书馆坐落于 1990 年 7 月启用的独立馆舍，以 18 世纪法属本地治里的 Dubash 与日记作家阿南达·兰加·皮莱命名。
• Puduvai Vaani broadcasts on 107.8 MHz from the campus and produces community programmes in Tamil, English and other languages spoken in the territory.“普杜瓦伊之音”从校园以 107.8 兆赫播出，制作泰米尔语、英语及本地其他语言的社区节目。
• Puducherry's French quarter, the Promenade beach and Auroville lie a short drive from Kalapet, and Chennai and Bengaluru are reachable by the East Coast Road and national highways.本地治里的法国风情街区、海滨长廊与奥罗维尔距卡拉佩特仅短程车程，经东海岸公路与国道可抵达金奈和班加罗尔。

Reputation

• QS places Pondicherry University in the 1401+ band for 2027, the shared final segment used for institutions outside the individually numbered positions.QS 将本地治里大学列入 2027 年 1401+ 区间，这是为未进入单独编号名次的院校设置的并列末段。
• THE ranks it in the 1201-1400 band in 2027, a stronger placement than its QS band and one that reflects its research and citation profile.泰晤士高等教育在 2027 年将其列入 1201-1400 区间，这一位次高于其 QS 区间，反映其研究与引用表现。
• U.S. News places it 2,011th in its 2026-2027 global ranking, while the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities does not include it in the main list.U.S. News 在 2026-2027 年度全球榜单中将其排在第 2011 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜则未收录该校。
• In the 2025 QS World University Rankings it was placed 1201-1400 globally and 351-400 in Asia, and in the 2024 THE ranking it stood at 1001-1200 globally and 301-500 in Asia.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校全球位列 1201-1400 区间、亚洲 351-400 区间，在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育排名中全球为 1001-1200 区间、亚洲 301-500 区间。
• The National Institutional Ranking Framework placed it in the 101-151 band among Indian universities in 2024, confirming its position in the second tier of national rankings.国家机构排名框架在 2024 年将其列入印度大学 101-151 区间，确认其在印度国内排名中的第二梯队位置。
• Its NAAC grade rose from B to A during the 2007-2012 reforms, a change the university presents as proof of improved teaching and infrastructure.在 2007 至 2012 年的改革期间，该校 NAAC 等级由 B 升至 A，校方以此作为教学与基础设施改善的证据。
• As a central university, it receives direct UGC funding and is governed by central statutes rather than by a state university act, which shapes its national recruitment and research role.作为中央大学，该校直接获得大学拨款委员会资助，依据中央法规而非邦大学法治理，这塑造了其全国性招聘与研究职能。
• Its research strengths cluster in marine and coastal studies, green energy and nanotechnology, Tamil and South Asian studies, and social exclusion policy, a profile reinforced by the coastal disaster management and green energy schools created during the Tareen reorganisation.该校研究优势集中在海洋与海岸研究、绿色能源与纳米技术、泰米尔与南亚研究以及社会排斥政策，塔林任内设立的海岸灾害管理与绿色能源学院进一步强化了这一格局。
• The university's community college and community radio station are frequently cited as examples of publicly engaged higher education in India's smaller union territories.该校的社区学院与社区广播电台常被引为印度较小联邦属地中公立高校参与社会服务的范例。
• Its first NIRF result, placing it among the top 11 Indian universities, remains a reference point in its institutional self-description and annual reports.其首轮 NIRF 评估进入印度大学前 11 名的成绩，至今仍是该校机构介绍与年度报告中的参照点。

Student life

• Pondicherry University does not display a formal motto, and its public identity rests instead on its Act, its central-university status and its multi-territorial jurisdiction. It is the only central university headquartered in Puducherry, a status no other institution in the territory holds.本地治里大学没有正式校训，其公共身份主要来自创校法案、中央大学地位以及跨多个联邦属地的管辖范围。它是唯一以本地治里为总部的中央大学，这一地位在本地区没有其他院校拥有。
• SPECTRA has organised talks, film screenings and pride events since 2014, and its 2018 Campus Pride is remembered as one of the first on an Indian university campus.SPECTRA 自 2014 年起组织讲座、电影放映与骄傲活动，其 2018 年校园骄傲活动被视为印度大学校园最早的同类型活动之一。
• PU SHARE runs monthly food donation drives, blood donation camps and free tuition for children at the Snehalayam orphanage, and its annual INSPIRE event raises funds for those programmes.PU SHARE 每月开展食品募捐、献血活动，并为斯内哈拉亚姆孤儿院儿童提供免费辅导，其年度“INSPIRE”活动为这些项目筹款。
• The Quiz Society, active since 2012, runs regular quizzes and inter-college competitions under the tagline "It's all about Quizzing".知识竞赛社团自 2012 年起活跃，以“一切皆在问答”为口号，定期举办竞赛与校际比赛。
• The Earth Sciences Club's annual Mrittika festival brings together students from several departments for field trips, debates, quizzes and treasure hunts.地球科学俱乐部的年度“Mrittika”节把多个系的学生聚集在一起，开展野外考察、辩论、知识竞赛与寻宝活动。
• Puduvai Vaani gives students training in radio production and broadcasting, and its community mandate includes health, agriculture and local governance programming.“普杜瓦伊之音”为学生提供广播制作与播音培训，其社区使命涵盖健康、农业与地方治理节目。
• The student body is linguistically diverse, with Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Odia, Assamese, Kannada and French among the languages spoken on campus.学生群体语言多样，校园内使用的语言包括泰米尔语、泰卢固语、马拉雅拉姆语、印地语、孟加拉语、奥里亚语、阿萨姆语、卡纳达语与法语。
• The Department of Physical Education and Sports runs the university's physical education programmes and organises inter-departmental tournaments in football, volleyball, athletics and badminton.体育与运动系承担该校体育课程，并组织足球、排球、田径与羽毛球等系际比赛。
• Puducherry's beaches, cafés, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville, the international township founded in 1968, give students a distinctive small-city social life, while Chennai's larger cultural scene is a few hours away by road.本地治里的海滩、咖啡馆、斯里·奥罗宾多静修处以及 1968 年创建的国际城镇奥罗维尔，赋予学生独特的小城社交生活，金奈更丰富的文化场景则只有数小时车程。

Notable people

• N. Rangaswamy, the ninth Chief Minister of Puducherry, is an alumnus and one of the university's most frequently cited public figures.N. 兰加斯瓦米是本地治里第九任首席部长，也是该校校友中最常被提及的公共人物之一。
• Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, a former Home Minister of Kerala and long-serving communist politician, studied at the university before entering state politics.喀拉拉邦前内政部长、长期从政的共产党人科迪耶里·巴拉克里希南在进入邦政坛前曾在该校就读。
• B. Sandhya, a senior Indian Police Service officer known for her work in Kerala, is counted among its alumnae.B. 桑迪亚是印度警察体系中以喀拉拉邦工作著称的高级警官，被列为该校女校友。
• Ragy Thomas, founder and chief executive of the social-media management company Sprinklr, is one of the university's best-known technology entrepreneurs.社交媒体管理公司 Sprinklr 的创始人兼首席执行官拉吉·托马斯是该校最知名的科技创业者之一。
• Majiziya Bhanu, a bodybuilder and dental surgeon who won international medals, combines the university's health-science and sport identities.马吉齐亚·巴努是健美运动员兼牙科医生，曾获国际奖牌，兼具该校健康科学与体育两重身份。
• Vaseem Iqbal, the first person from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands' tribal communities to receive a PhD, is a notable alumnus of its island programmes.瓦西姆·伊克巴尔是安达曼和尼科巴群岛原住民社群中首位获得博士学位者，是该校岛屿项目的知名校友。
• Arulnithi, a Tamil film actor, and Lijomol Jose, an actress in Malayalam and Tamil cinema, are among its alumni in the performing arts.泰米尔电影演员阿鲁尔尼蒂与马拉雅拉姆及泰米尔电影女演员利乔莫尔·何塞，是该校表演艺术界校友。
• Jayanthasri Balakrishnan, a public speaker and retired professor of English, is a well-known alumna in Tamil literary and media circles.公众演说家、退休英语教授贾扬塔斯里·巴拉克里希南是泰米尔文学与媒体圈知名校友。
• Durai Sundar, a computational biologist working on protein modelling, represents the university's science alumni in international research.从事蛋白质建模的计算生物学家杜赖·孙达尔代表该校理科校友进入国际研究领域。
• Sushrut Badhe, an author and researcher, and Pramod Payyannur, a Malayalam film director and writer, extend its alumni list into literature and cinema.作家兼研究者苏什鲁特·巴德与马拉雅拉姆电影导演、编剧普拉莫德·帕亚努尔，把该校校友版图延伸至文学与电影领域。