Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University


Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Gujarat, established through PDPU Act, a legislature passed by Gujarat state assembly in 2007. The university is located at Raysan village of Gandhinagar city in an area known as Knowledge Corridor, and it is near the GIFT City. It is 8 km from Gujarat state capital Gandhinagar, and 23 km from Gujarat's largest city Ahmedabad.
PDPU has been awarded Scientific & Industrial Research Organization recognition by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India.
The university has four schools, located on the same campus. The schools include the School of Petroleum Technology, the School of Technology, the School of Petroleum Management, and the School of Liberal Studies. The President of University Board of Governors is Dr. Mukesh Ambani and the Chairman of the Standing Committee is Shri D. Rajagopalan, IAS, Government of Gujarat.
The university also has its own 1 megawatt solar power plant. The Government of Gujarat has decided to set up an international Centre of Excellence in Automobile at PDPU with investment of Rs. 150 Crores in joint venture with Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

History

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University has been established by as a Private University through the State Act enacted on 4 April 2007.
The University is recognized by UGC and is a member of AIU. The university has been accredited with Grade A by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council In March 2018, Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar announced that the University Grants Commission has granted autonomy to PDPU, making it the only of two private universities in India to have accorded this autonomy. PDPU is the first college in Gujarat that has been granted autonomy. Henceforth university will have the freedom to start new courses, off-campus centers, skill development courses, research parks, and any other new academic programs. It will also give it the freedom to hire foreign faculty, enroll foreign students, give incentive-based emoluments to the faculty, enter into academic collaborations and run open distance learning programs.

Schools

The 4 schools of PDPU offer both niche programs as well as programs of general interest, covering UG, PG and Doctoral programs in Management, Humanities, Science and Engineering:
The National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked it 177 among engineering colleges in 2020.

Campus and Infrastructure

The campus is located at 14 km from the Ahmedabad Airport and 21 km from Ahmedabad's Kalupur Railway Station. It is 3 km off the main road connecting Gandhinagar to Ahmedabad Airport, Ahmedabad. The university is spread across a lush green pollution-free 100 acres campus with very good biodiversity. The entire space is dotted with lots of mango trees, and the campus houses 18 different varieties of birds.
The university started with a single building and then over the years, expanded infrastructure to five large administrative blocks, an auditorium block, hostel blocks, cafeteria block, sports grounds, and manicured gardens.
The entire area is walled with 4 access points, is CCTV monitored, and tobacco-free. On-campus facilities include SBI Branch, pharmacy, stationery store, resident daytime doctor, 24x7 doctor-on-call, ambulance, travel desk, and campus store. Gujarat National Law University is situated nearby.

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Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs provides support for the free and responsible conduct of investigative, scholarly and creative activities, including support from the initial stages of proposal development to grants management, publication, and the transfer of technology. It provides internally funded grants, pre-award and post-award support for externally funded grants and offer education and

International Collaborations

The university pursues active partnerships and collaborates with foreign universities through MOUs. Partnership includes Summer student Exchange Program, and Co-operation in academics. Currently active partnerships include:
Washington & Jefferson College, Memorial University, Edith Cowan University, University of Bahrain, University of Manitoba, University of Wollongong, University of Alberta, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma University, University of Houston, Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas A&M, University of Saskatchewan, University of Regina, Western University, University of Trinidad & Tobago

Sports

PDPU campus has sporting facilities and boys and girls teams in Basketball, Volleyball, Cricket, Tennis, Football, Kabaddi, Table Tennis, Badminton, Athletics, Taekwondo, Ultimate frisbee, Kho-Kho, Chess and Carrom.
Petrocup is the annual sporting event, an inter-university contest with almost 5000 participants competing for the top position from 100+ campuses in India and abroad.