Type Private Chancellor Ashok Mittal Students 45,000 Founder Baldev Raj Mittal Academic staff 3,500 | Established 2005 (2005) Vice-Chancellor Dr. Ramesh Kanwar Phone 1800 102 4431 Founded 2005 | |
Location Phagwara, Punjab, India Address Jalandhar-Delhi G.T. Road, National Highway 1, Phagwara, Punjab 144411 Motto Transforming Education, Transforming India. (en) Similar Guru Nanak Dev University, Panjab University, Khalsa College - Amritsar, Punjabi University, Amity University Profiles | ||
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Lovely Professional University is a semi-residential university college in North India created under the Punjab State Private University Act 2005 and recognized by UGC under Section 2(f) of UGC Act 1956. LPU offers around 200 programmes and courses at diploma, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. The university has more than 30,000 students graduating every year.
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History
LPU was founded as Lovely Professional University in 2005 by Mr. Ashok Mittal.
The college was affiliated with Punjab Technical University. In 2001 Started with Lovely Institute of Management, In 2002 Lovely Institute of Technology (Engineering and Pharmacy), In 2003 Lovely Institute of Education and Lovely Institute of LAW, In 2004 Lovely Institute of Technology (Architecture, Polytechnic, Higher studies & Vocational Studies), In 2005 BPT, M.Ed., D. Pharm (Ayr, PGDCA, In 2006 under UGC Act became Lovely Professional University and In 2011 Distance Education. In 2016, LPU launched a startup school to give its students a platform to nurture their innovative ideas. It was inaugurated by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Campus Facilities
LPU's Division of Student Affairs (DSA) provides leisure activities. The Division designs culture, sports, services and other allied social activities and delivers these through different clubs. There is a mall within the campus that houses the in-campus Hotel Unihotel, along with a bowling alley and a state-of-the-art multi-gym at the top floor. There are various kiosks spread across the campus for varied needs.
Awards & Achievements
Events
Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has chosen Lovely Professional University for organizing 14-Day All India Inter University National Boxing (Men/Women) Championship.
Admissions
Admission in Lovely Professional University in all courses is conducted on a merit basis through an online entrance exam. LPU organizes its own entrance exam, called the Lovely Professional University National Entrance and Scholarship Test (LPU NEST). It is conducted every year in the month of April and May. In 2015 over 400,000 students appeared for the entrance examination. The exam has been conducted online since 2011.
Recognition & Memberships
The University is recognized by University Grant Commission (UGC) and is member of Association of Indian Universities (AIU).
Honorary Degree Recipients
Violence on campus
In April 2011, during a football game a student was beaten by opposition team members and died a few hours later in hospital. The beaten student was from Mizoram and the three accused were Sudanese and Tanzanian. The racial aspect of the crime led to near-rioting on the campus, destroying a number of kiosks and cars. Tension continued with the university closed for three days, and with police being pelted with stones by angry students. LPU Pro-Chancellor Rashmi Mittal described the attack as, "students didn’t take the spirit of the game in a positive manner". The university's management have also been criticised for ignoring earlier and later racial attacks.