* From university students winning CommonWealth Game medals to
students securing placement up to 3 crores and university featuring in
the Global top 75 list; the year 2022 is full of many achievements for
LPU
* India’s Prime Minister, Home Minister and Punjab Chief Minister
honoured LPU students for their achievements
Jalandhar : The year 2022 has again proved to be a very successful year
for Lovely Professional University (LPU). On a personal note, LPU
Chancellor Dr Ashok Kumar Mittal became the Member of Parliament
(Rajya Sabha), while the university and its students further ascended
new heights in various domains. From illustrious global rankings,
record-breaking placements, India’s largest number of patents filed,
and working on various innovation & start-up ideas; there has been
growth in each area of operation of the university.
On the placement front, LPU achieved record-breaking placement with a
recent engineering graduate placed at Rs 3 crore annual salary. For
the 2022 batch, the highest package for engineering stood at 64 lakhs.
Despite a difficult market scenario, the 2022 highest package marks a
50% increase from the previous year’s highest of Rs 42 lakh. Setting
yet another benchmark; 8400+ offers are extended to students of
various programs of the 2022 batch, where 5000+ offers are extended by
Fortune 500 companies. LPU students leveraged an unbeatable placement
support system at the university and bagged dream packages in the
world’s leading companies.
In the area of research, LPU has filed the maximum number of patents
applied by an academic institute, as per the Office of the Controller
General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM). LPU even
outshined all of the IITs, individually.
In the rankings as well LPU is in the premier list of universities,
which were ranked in the Times Higher Education Ranking list.
Demonstrating commitment to rapid improvement year-on-year, LPU is
ranked 74th in THE Impact Rankings-2022 among thousands of
universities in 106 countries. LPU is even ahead of the top Canadian
university, the University of Toronto, and all the participating IITs,
IIMs and central universities of India. LPU is declared 23rd in ‘THE’
World University Rankings -2023, and also listed among India’s top 10
promising campuses for research innovations. Govt of India’s NIRF
Rankings-2022 holds LPU 47th amongst all government and private
universities in India. The Ministry of Education (Govt. of India) also
selected LPU as a mentor institution for innovation and
entrepreneurship.
For the internationalization of education, LPU collaborated with
various top universities across the world, including the Goethe
Institute Germany; the University of Helsinki, Finland; ESME School of
Engineering, Paris; University of Winnipeg & Laurentian University,
Canada; Aston University, the UK; University of Technology (Sydney)
Australia; Accra Technical University, Ghana; University of Lodz,
Poland; Rega Technical University, Latvia; Perdana University,
Malaysia and more.
LPU also signed various MoUs on industry collaboration like with Epam
India to establish a centre of Excellence for training in niche
technology areas; Quantiphi for specialization in Design Science &
Machine Learning; and, SatCom Industry Association for satellite
communications.
Many of its students’ achievements are also the highlights for the
year 2022. Major ones include that 12 NCC, NSS and Bhangra students
have been selected for the Republic Day-2023 parade & celebrations.
Continuing with its legacy of enriching the nation’s sports and
cultural activities; one of its students is awarded by Hon’ble PM Modi
for sports proficiency; Union Home Minister Amit Shah gave away Khelo
India University Games’ First Runners UP Trophy; and, Chief Minister
of Punjab Bhagwant Mann honoured LPU students with 2nd Runner-Up
trophy for state’s inter-university youth festival. Moreover, with an
LPU student’s silver medal, the Indian shooters contingent topped the
medals tally in Egypt; and, two of its students have become the only
Indians to get selected by ‘Baseball United’ for the American game to
be held in Dubai in 2023.
University also saw some large-scale celebrations including the
stunning performances of world renowned Diljit Dosanj, Satinder
Sartaaj, Gippy Grewal, Asees Kaur. National-level competitions like
that of Smart India Hackathon virtually addressed by PM Modi,
EffiCycle-2022 were also organised in the year bygone. Motivational
interactions of students were also held with many international
/national personalities, you-tubers including Minister of State for
External Affairs & Culture Meenakshi Lekhi, Key Policy player Shauraya
Doval, Shark Tank fame entrepreneur Ashneel Grover, Aman Dhattarwal
and more.
Illustrative, extending world-class mentorship and training to
passionate students in diverse fields of their preferences, LPU makes
every year more glorious than previous ones with illustrious
achievements.
