Shoolini University offers cash awards to students securing place in IITs, NITs

Tribune News Service

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Solan, August 4

Shoolini University, ranked among top two universities in Himachal Pradesh in NIRF 2020, has announced a unique offer in these unprecedented times.

The university has decided to give cash awards to students who secure admissions with IITs and NITs in the country. The only clause being that the IITs and NITs they secure admissions to should be ranked higher than Shoolini University in the NIRF rankings. In this year’s prestigious HRD Ministry’s NIRF rankings, the university was ranked 112th among Indian engineering institutes.

Vice-Chancellor Prof PK Khosla said it was “a win-win situation for engineering and medical aspirants from the state”.

In a short span of a decade since its inception, Shoolini University has positioned itself as a new-age university that has excelled in higher education.

Its School of Pharmaceutical Sciences ranked 39th while Management Sciences and Liberal Arts School found itself in 76 to 100 band. The powerful ranking results were now followed by this cash award offer that was a lucrative proposition for aspirants, said Prof Khosla.