Pondicherry University

Pondicherry University is a Teaching-cum-affiliating University, established in 1985, with a jurisdiction spread over the Union Territories of Pondicherry, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.  The University has three campuses. The main campus is located at Puducherry with 780 acres of lush-green Wi-fi enabled area, housing 15 Schools, 39 Departments, 12 Centres and 1 Chairs, offering over 140 PG & Research programmes.  Other two smaller campuses are located at Port Blair and Karaikal. The University runs PG.Diploma / Certificate Add-On Courses in the evenings so that regular students and outside members can attend these courses to acquire additional knowledge and skill that would enhance their job prospects.

Pondicherry University has made remarkable contribution in the field of Higher Education. Within the span of 32 years the University has been emerging as a center of excellence in teaching, research and extension activities, by offering multidisciplinary courses under the Choice Based Credit System as a pioneering institute in India. The University has been reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC with regard to the students’ friendly learning environment, good infrastructure, modern amenities, excellent teaching and the supportive non-teaching fraternity. 

The Campus Life is extremely congenial and entirely self-contained with a Shopping Complex, Health Centre, Bank, Post Office, Gymnasiums, Sports facilities, etc.  The University has 90 affiliated colleges, offering Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses in the Faculty of Arts, Science, Commerce, Engineering Technology, Fine Arts, Law, Management and Medicine.

Pondicherry University is the first University in the country to start a Community College to cater to the needs and demands of the local community to enhance skill development and their employability.  The College offers several job oriented courses including para medical courses with hands-on training by the expert medical team at hospitals.  Selected students of Community College have been awarded financial support by U.S. Government to get training at Community Colleges in U.S. for one year.  The University has another Community College at Mahe, started in the academic year 2014-15 for the benefit of the local population of that region. 

The University has 24 hostels (14 for Boys, 9 for Girls and 1 for Foreign Students), State-of-the-Art Laboratories, Free transport, on-and-off campus and excellent sports facilities.  It offers rent-free accommodation to all girl students, provides totally-free education to all the differently-abled students.  The Wi-fi enabled campus has 100% power back-up to all the Departments and Hostels of the University. At present, the University has more than 250 research projects with extramural funding of over Rs. 50 Crore.

Enormous thrust is given for the promotion of collaboration with both national and international institutions. The University has more than50 Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with various reputed Institutions/Universities in India and abroad for exchange of faculty & students and for academic and research cooperation. We are keen to participate in the QS Asian Universities ranking and please allow us to submit our detailed data.