Institute Type : public
Year of Establishment : 1956
Chairman : Sh. R.R. Vederah
President : Sh. Gautam Thapar
Director : Prof. Prakash Gopalan
Academic staff : 250+
Undergraduates : 5000+
Postgraduates : 600+
Location : Patiala, Punjab, India
Campus : 250 acres
Affiliation : UGC, NAAC
RANKING IN INDIA:
By India Today : 18
By Dataquest : 18
By CSR-GHRDC : 5
By MINT : 4
PROGRAMS
The University offers undergraduate programmes leading to Bachelor of Engineering degree and postgraduate programmes leading to Master of Engineering, Master of Software Engineering, Master of Technology , Master of Science [M.Sc.], Master of Computer Applications [MCA], Doctor of Philosophy [Ph.D.], and Doctor of Science [D.Sc.] degrees. Students have to take the Jee-main exam to get admission into Thapar University for the undergraduate program and students take the MET exam for admission into graduate/postgraduate programmes.
COURSES DETAILS :
(B.E) programmes
The institute offers undergraduate programmes leading to Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree.
PROGRAMS INTAKE
*Biotechnology (BT) – 50
*Chemical Engineering (CHE) – 60
*Civil Engineering (CIE) – 130
*Computer Engineering (C.E) – 570
*Computer Engineering (Hons in Machine Learning and Data Analytics) CS(MLDA)-
*Computer Engineering (Hons in Computer Animation and Gaming) CS(CAG)
*Software Engineering And Management CS(SEM)
*Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) – 165
*Electronics (Instrumentation & Control) Engineering (EIC) -100
*Electrical Engineering (ELE) – 150
*Mechatronics Engineering (MEC) – 30
*Mechanical Engineering (MEE) – 160
*Mechanical Production Engineering (MPE) – 30
* Electronics and Computers (ECE) – 180
Campus & Hostel
The campus has six old academic blocks, namely A,B,C,D,E,F and a recently constructed TAN block. The blocks are well constructed with greenery interspersed between them. The university campus has six hostels for boys. Each hostel has a gym, a reading room and a common room. There is a cooperative mess system in each hostel, and a student executive committee headed by the warden to manage day-to-day hostel activities.
- Hostel -A(Capacity: 252)
- Hostel -B(Capacity: 282)
- Hostel -C(Capacity: 320)
- Hostel -H(Capacity: 480)
- Hostel-J(Capacity: 942) – J stands for Jannat. As the name must suggest, this hostel is best in the campus and understandably the most expensive.
- Hostel-E(Capacity : 237)
- Hostel-PG(Capacity: 288)
- Hostel -I(Capacity: 407)
The campus boasts of an in-house market COS (Cultural Open-air Sports) complex which has variety of shops where one can eat, drink, get his/her laundry done and buy stationery items.
