Chandigarh University starts entrance-cum-scholarship test

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Tarn Taran, January 22

Chandigarh University (CU) launched a national-level entrance-cum-scholarship test, CUCET-2021, from here on Friday. It offers Rs 33 crore for students to earn.

Prof RS Bawa, Pro-Chancellor of the university, said to motivate and give reward to talented students, CU launched the test, which would offer a golden chance to students to earn scholarships worth Rs 33 crore.

He said it was an online examination which offered flexibility to students to choose their slot and make them eligible to grab academic scholarship up to 100 per cent in the course of their choice. The test was mandatory for engineering, MBA, pharmacy, integrated law and agriculture programmes while for other programmes the online examination offers an opportunity to grab scholarships, he added.

Dr Bawa also inaugurated the online portal https://cucet.cuchd.in/ where students could register for the entrance-cum-scholarship test from today itself.

Talking about the status of the university, which was among the 24 ranked university in India, Dr Bawa said the university felicitated 1,200 students to study abroad. He said 182 students from the Majha region bagged campus placements at top-notch MNCs last year (2020). Dr Bawa said Chandigarh University had emerged as the first university of India to have established an academic tie-up with 306 top-ranked universities across the globe and more than 1,200 university students had been provided an opportunity to do internships, semester abroad, part of joint research initiatives at the world’s top universities by the Department of International Affairs at Chandigarh University.

He said the university had 30,000 campus students and more than 7,000 students from Punjab were currently studying 135 programmes at the university campus. “Manmeet Kaur, a student of Computer Science Engineering from Amritsar, managed to grab a record five offers from Wipro, Mind Tree, TiVo India Cognizant & Capgemini while another student Abhinandan Saini of the mechanical branch from Pathankot got four job letters.

Dr Bawa said the university’s record in the fields of sports and culture, too, was extraordinary.