Maharshi Dayanand University

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak(Haryana,India)
Motto Vidya Vindate Amritam (Sanskrit)
Motto in English
 "Knowledge is Immortal"
Type Public
Established 1976[1]
Chancellor Honorable Governor of Haryana
Provost Dr. S.P. VATS., Registrar [2]
Vice-Chancellor Prof. Bijender Kumar Punia, [3][4]
Students More than 170,000 [5]
Location Rohtak, Haryana, India
28°54′00″N 76°34′12″E / 28.90000°N 76.57000°E / 28.90000; 76.57000
Campus Urban,665.4 acres (2.7 km2)[1]
Accreditation AICTE, NAAC[6]
Colours Fire Brick, White and Lime Green             
Athletics Wrestling, Gymnastics, Squash, Swimming and Boxing[1]
Affiliations UGC, BCI, AICTE
Website www.mdurohtak.ac.in

Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) (Hindi: महर्षि दयानन्द विश्वविद्यालय) is a university in Rohtak, Haryana, India. It is accredited with grade'A' by NAAC. Established in 1976 and named after the saint Dayananda Saraswati, the university offers courses in a number of fields of study at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. Besides offering courses on campus, MDU is a collegiate university which provides programs through colleges, institutes and centers throughout the region. MDU Rohtak shares its campus with IIM Rohtak.

History

MDU Main Entrance Gate

Maharshi Dayanand University established as Rohtak University, Rohtak, came into existence by an Act No. 25 of 1975 of the Haryana Legislative Assembly in 1976 with the objective to promote inter-disciplinary higher education and research in the fields of environmental, ecological and life sciences. It was rechristened as Maharshi Dayanand University in 1977 after the name of a great visionary and social reformer, Maharshi Dayanand. It had a uniItary and residential character in its nascent stage, but became an affiliating University in November 1978. The University secured the recognition of University Grants Commission – the higher education regulatory body of India - for central Govt. grants in Feb. 1983.

From its original objective of studies in the life sciences, the university has 13 faculties, 27 postgraduate departments and runs 77 academic programs on campus. There are 66 boards of studies for developing and designing courses. In addition to the main campus, there is a satellite campus at the National Law College (UILMS) at Gurgaon.

A former satellite campus, the Indira Gandhi Post Graduate Regional Center in Rewari, was awarded university status on its own (as Indira Gandhi University) in April 2013.[7]

The university was given an "A" rating by NAAC in August 2013.[8]

Campus

Pranav Mukherjee Addressing an Event At MDU

The university is about 75 kilometres (47 mi) from Delhi on the Delhi-Hisar National Highway (NH-10) and about 240 kilometres (150 mi) from Chandigarh, the state capital. Rohtak is the educational hub of the state; the university also administers programmes through its Indira Gandhi P.G. Regional Centre, Meerpur (Rewari) and the University Institute of Law and Management Studies (ULIMS), Gurgaon. The Regional Centre offers nine postgraduate programmes, and UILMS offers two. Near Post officeIIM Rohtak is also currently functioning in MDU Campus.According to the MOU signed between IIM Rohtak and MDU, the students and staff of IIM Rohtak will have access to almost all the infrastructure of the university. The University Campus has a robust state-of-the-art Campus Wide Network. It is wrapped around OFC and wi-fi technologies. All the departments/offices/hostels are linked to the Campus Network. The University has a Computer Centre for the benefit of students, research scholars, teachers and other staff. The Computer Centre conducts computer awareness programmes for the staff from time to time, and facilitates analysis of research data of the research scholars. Besides the central facility, majority of the departments have their own computer labs

IIM Rohtak in MDU Campus

Library

Vivekanand Central Library At MDU Campus .

The university library system comprises a central library (the Vivekananda Library) seven satellite libraries in management, law, engineering, mathematics, hotel management and departmental libraries in the departments of sociology and history. The Vivekananda Library is centrally located, a five-minute walk from all departments and dormitories. The library is housed in a three-story building with an 84,000-square-foot (7,800 m2) area and a seating capacity of 800. It is open seven days a week, and a reading hall (with a seating capacity of about 250) is open around the clock. The library is air-conditioned, with comfortable seating. All library functions (check-out, check-in, catalog and acquisition system) are automated, and information kiosks are present for accessing the online catalog and other library databases. The library has over 2,50,000 volumes of books and 50,000 bound volumes of journals; it subscribes to 540 Indian and foreign print journals. Online access is provided to 5300 e-journals through a user-generated content facility, over 200 open-access e-journals, Scopus, e-Emeralds Plus (a full-text database of management journals from Emerald Group Publishing) and Manupatra. The university invests over Rs. 200 lakhs annually on the enrichment of its knowledge base, in addition to infrastructure upgrades. The library also maintains a campus-wide, IP-based phone system and the university website; it offers distance B.L.I.Sc. and M.L.I.Sc. courses as part of the Directorate of Distance Education.

Boards and Courses

Tagore Auditorium

MDU offers an undergraduate engineering programs that awards a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) or Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree. The university also offers postgraduate programs that lead to Master of Technology (M.Tech), Master of Science (MSc) by research, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Computer Applications (MCA) and doctorate (Ph.D). The MSc and PhD are research degrees while the rest are taught degrees. [9]

Undergraduate Courses

The university, presently has following undergraduate boards which offer Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) programs. The programs are listed below :

Board Undergraduate courses in English Medium
Automobile Engineering Automobile Engineering
Biotechnology Biotechnology
Civil Engineering Cement Technology, Ceramics & Civil Engineering, Construction Technology and Management, Environmental Engineering
CSE / ISE Computer Science & Engineering and Information Science & Engineering
Electrical Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Electronics & communication Engineering Electronics & Communication Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Tool Engineering
Textile Engineering Fashion Technology, Textile Technology
Interior Design Product Design & Graphic Design

Postgraduate Courses

The university, presently has following postgraduate boards which offer Master of Technology (M.Tech) programs. The programs are listed below :

Board Postgraduate programs in English Medium
Civil Engineering Computer Aided Design of Structure, Construction Technology, Environmental Engineering, Geo-Informatics, Highway Technology, Structural Engineering, Transportation Engineering And Management
Computer Science and Engineering Computer Engineering, Computer Network Engineering, Computer Science And Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering
Electrical Engineering Computer Applications In Industrial Drives(ECD), Energy Systems & Management (EEM), Microelectronics And Control Systems(EMS), Power Electronics (EPE), Power Systems, Engineering (EPS)
Electronics & Communication EngineeringDigital Communication Engineering, Digital Communication & Networking, Digital Electronics, Digital Electronics & Communication, Digital Electronics & Communication Systems, Electronics, Industrial Electronics, Information & Communication System, Network & Internet Engineering, VLSI Design & Embedded Systems, Signal Processing, Communication Systems, Intelligent systems
MBA Master Of Business Administration
MCA Master of Computer Applications
Mechanical Engineering Computer Integrated Manufacturing (MCM), Design Engineering (MDE), Engineering Analysis (MEA), Machine Design (MMD), Thermal Power (MTP), Tool Engineering (MTE)
Textile Technology Textile Technology

Along With These University offers more UG and PG courses like B.Sc, B.C.A, B.A, M.Sc,M.C.A, M.A and Many others. University Also Runs a Separate Distance Education Department.

Sports

The Directorate of Sports has produced many nationally and internationally ranked sportspeople, including seven Arjuna and five Bhim Awardees. The university has a modern gymnasium (four standard size badminton courts can work simultaneously), an international-standard swimming pool, a squash court, boxing ring, wrestling hall, tennis and basketball courts, and a complex of playing fields. A synthetic athletics track and artificial-turf field hockey ground are planned. The Directorate hosts about 60 intercollegiate tournaments for men and women players from affiliated colleges, organizes coaching camps for its students and sends teams to intercollegiate tournaments and national games.

Affiliated colleges

Colleges in the districts of Bhiwani, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Mahendragarh, Palwal, Rewari, Panipat, Rohtak and Sonipat are affiliated with the university.

National Service Scheme

Students enrolled under the scheme must perform 120 hours of community service and participate in a seven-day NSS camp every year. Students also have opportunities to participate in programmes such as the Youth Leadership Training Camp, Youth Festivals, National Integration Camps and Adventure Programmes. University NSS Merit Certificates are awarded to NSS volunteers on the completion and fulfillment of prescribed conditions. In addition, the best NSS volunteers are decorated with awards at the unit, district and university level each year.

Enrollment

As a collegiate university, MDU has 126 institutions and colleges under its banner with a total enrollment of about 170,0000 students. It has a number of engineering colleges, management institutes and pharmacy colleges. On campus is a Directorate of Distance Education, with an enrollment of over 50,000 students in 24 professional and academic courses. The university has endowed six chairs to conduct research on the lives and contributions of eminent Indians.

Faculties

The Faculty of Medicine is now a separate university (the B. D. Sharma University of Health Sciences).

Departments

  • Agriculture Biotechnology
  • Anthropology
  • Biochemistry
  • Biotechnology
  • Business Economics
  • Centre for Haryana Studies
  • Chemistry
  • Commerce
  • Computer Science
  • Defence & Strategic Studies
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Engineering and Technology (UIET)
  • English and Foreign Languages
  • Environment Sciences
  • Ecology
  • Fine Arts
  • Food Technology
  • Genetics
  • Geology
  • Geography
  • Hindi
  • History
  • IMSAR
  • Information Technology
  • Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Law
  • Library & Info. Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medical Biotechnology
  • Microbiology
  • Music & Theater
  • Neuroscience
  • Physical Education
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Physics
  • Plant Biotechnology
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Public Administrations
  • Sports Science
  • Sanskrit
  • Sociology
  • Statistics
  • Hotel& Tourism Management
  • Urban & Rural Studies
  • Zoology

Student welfare

The university emphasizes student welfare, and has a directorate for this purpose. The directorate is housed in the student-activity centre, equipped with a bookshop, a cyber café for internet surfing, a cafeteria, a conference hall with internet connectivity and separate common rooms for men and women with newspapers, magazines, and indoor games.

It organizes activities in the arts and culture. The directorate shares the expenses of educational tours organized by teaching departments. Bus and railway passes are facilitated for students. Camps and adventure courses such as trekking, youth leadership training camps, rock climbing, snow skiing, a values-based spiritual course and a personality-development camp are organized.

Six zonal youth festivals and one inter-zonal youth festival (consisting of 40 events in music, dance, theatre, literary, fine arts and culture) are organized during an academic year. A techno-management fest, designed for students in engineering, management and other technical fields, is also organized in the Tagore Auditorium. The university has a holiday home and youth centre at Dhanachulli, Nainital district.

See also

Distinguished faculty

References

  1. 1 2 3 http://mdurohtak.ac.in/info/univ_university.html
  2. ↑ http://mdurohtak.ac.in/info/admin_offices_registrar.html
  3. ↑ http://mdurohtak.ac.in/info/admin_offices_vc.html
  4. ↑ http://www.yespunjab.com/punjab/haryana-news/item/83421-prof-bijender-kumar-punia-appointed-new-vice-chancellor-of-mdu-rohtak
  5. ↑ About MDU
  6. ↑ http://web5.kar.nic.in/naacloi_new/NAAC_accreditlist_pdf.aspx
  7. ↑ Staff (25 April 2013). "University Status Awarded to Indira Gandhi Regional Center in Rewari". Hindustan Times.
  8. ↑ "Accreditation Status". NAAC. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  9. ↑ http://mdurohtak.ac.in/info/acad_Department.html

External links

Coordinates: 28°54′00″N 76°34′12″E / 28.90000°N 76.57000°E / 28.90000; 76.57000

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