Why one should study Engineering at JKLU?

 JEE results are out and students other than those who have performed exceedingly well and are preparing for JEE Advanced, are now starting to think of what engineering college they want to choose for their under-graduate education.

So let me warn. This is a marketing post. If you are thinking of a college for engineering or you know someone who is looking for admission to engineering programs, please do read, share, comment, get in touch, etc. Not interested in finding out the magic we are doing at JKLU, skip the rest of this post.

The most important reason to select a college is its quality of education, and the main proxy for this parameter is the faculty. (I know a lot of people consider placement statistics as a proxy for quality, so we will talk about that too later in this post, but let us talk about faculty for now.) There are three things I would like to state about our Engineering faculty:

• The faculty to student ratio in our engineering programs is 1:12. This is perhaps the best ratio in any engineering college in the country. And this does not include faculty of Communication, Humanities and Social Science, Management and Design, who do teach many courses. If we include them, then the ratio will be 1:10.
  
•  More than 75% of our engineering faculty has a PhD degree. Again, I am not sure how many engineering colleges (other than IITs, NITs, and a few top colleges like BITS, LNMIIT, etc.) can boast of such a percentage of PhDs. And this number is increasing. We stopped recruiting non-PhDs some time ago, and all existing non-PhDs have been asked to enroll in PhD programs.
• A majority of our engineering faculty have at least one degree from IITs, NITs, BITS or abroad. So they have been exposed to excellence and that builds a culture of excellence on the campus. Again, compare this with the background of faculty in other institutions that you are considering.

And it is not just that the faculty is great. The pedagogy is great too. JKLU strongly believes in Project Based Learning. We did this transition to PBL in 2018. Earlier too, we were claiming to do PBL like everyone claims. In 2018, we said to ourselves, let us find out the world leaders in PBL and understand how to do it right. We found out that Olin College near Boston is the Gold standard of PBL. And they run a one week program every summer to teach academics from around the world how they do it. We invested heavily into this, sent a team of teachers to Olin for that program, then brought their faculty to JKLU for further training and help in transitioning to PBL. This summer, we again deputed a team for this one week program at Olin. To understand what this is, you may read one of my old blogs on my Olin experience. So you start doing projects from the very first semester with a lot of guidance from faculty.

One of the flexibility in our system that we are really proud of is spending a semester at an IIT, IIIT or another fine institution. There are institutions like IIT Kanpur and IIT Gandhinagar who have a process of admitting students of other colleges for a semester or two. However, hardly anyone makes use of this facility. And why wouldn't you want to study in an IIT if you always wanted to be an engineer. The problem is that most colleges do not have a system of counting the courses done at those IITs towards their own courses. And the second problem is that most colleges will ask their student interested in spending a semester elsewhere to pay full fee at both their home institution as well as this other institution, making it very expensive for the student. In case of JKLU, we have a process of replacing our courses with the courses you do elsewhere and we do not charge you tuition for the semester you are studying elsewhere. This has meant that almost 10% of our students spend a semester elsewhere (or did before Covid, last 3 semesters have been an exception). In the year before Covid, we had 6 students spend a semester at IIT Gandhinagar alone. We also have an agreement with IIIT Delhi, one of the finest institution in India for Computer Science and related disciplines under which our students can spend a semester there (and despite Covid, one student is spending the current semester there).

We also have agreements with several foreign universities for our students to spend a semester abroad. Some of them reduce tuition for our students. Some of them make it easier for our students to get admission in Masters programs if they had spent a semester abroad with them. University of Amsterdam does not charge any tuition from our students. Universities where one can for semester abroad include University of Birmingham, University of Florida, and many others. Of course, we also allow our students to spend a semester in any fine institution abroad including those with whom we do not have a formal tie up. We truly believe that having a global exposure is very important for a career in today's world and provide such opportunities to our students. Do ask the colleges you are considering if they entertain a possibility of spending a semester abroad.

The cohort that you will study with will have good academic credentials. As of today, about 92 percent of our students admitted to engineering programs have scored more than 75% marks in their 10th class. The median 10th class score is 86%. (This year, with board marks in 12th class not always reflecting the academic preparation, we decided to take a look at 10th class marks, which are usually lower than 12th class scores.) Frankly, I do not know if even IITs can claim this in terms of school level performance of their students.

The next important consideration is that of cost. Not only we are charging tuition which is much less than our costs (with the JK group covering the losses), we are completely transparent about it. You can see the exact cost of all four years on our website. But the bigger deal is our extremely liberal and transparent scholarship regime. Please note that we have made scholarships extremely liberal this year to celebrate 10 years of the establishment of the university. In particular, we have made continuation of scholarship in all four years easier for this batch. Also, the scholarships cover not just the tuition but all academic fees and even hostel fees. On our scholarship page, you can find not just who is eligible for scholarship this year and how much scholarship you can get, you will also find out the conditions of its continuation in all four years. For students with JEE Mains percentile of greater than 92, one can actually study for free for all four years (other than the cost of mess and electricity). You won't find this kind of transparency, particularly regarding continuation of scholarship in successive years, in most colleges.

There are many other aspects of a great engineering college. Great infrastructure. A very green campus. Even though we are very small currently, the students are very active with lots of clubs, technical societies, sports, etc. They participate in several festivals of other colleges and conduct our own festivals (and did so even during Covid). We have a world class design school and they offer a couple of courses to all engineering students, and exposure to design is becoming almost a requirement in industry these days. We have been setup by 125-year old JK Organization, so our industry connect is really strong. The curriculum has the flexibility of several electives. You can choose to take courses in any of the latest streams like Machine Learning or Cyber Security or IoT or Automation, etc. We are one of the few institutions in India to setup Atal Incubation Center. So a strong support for your startup ideas. A great leadership team. The board is full of people who have built this nation. The academic council has people from best universities around the world. The internal leadership consists of people who have studied and worked in top institutions in the country.

And finally, let me talk about placements. My own belief is that one should focus on quality of education and not on placements because if you have a great quality of education, but campus does not see many companies visiting, you may not get the first job of your choice, but the quality of education will take you far. But I know most people are not convinced by this. We had great placements till 2019, but in the Covid years, we were hit a bit harder than other good colleges and in 2020 and 2021 graduating batches, the placement was between 80-85%, which is very good compared to most colleges, but not what we were used to. But as economy is back on track, we are making special efforts for 2022 batch, and within 2 weeks of our placement season, one third of our batch has already been placed with a minimum CTC of Rs. 4 lakhs. One should pay attention to minimum because if we were agreeable to companies paying 2 lakhs to 3 lakhs, we may have placed the entire batch so early in the year. The highest CTC so far is 10.0 lakhs though there are interviews pending for companies offering 15L and higher. The median is 6.3 lakhs. And those who know me personally would know that these are not cooked up numbers unlike most other colleges. The number of companies already committed to visit us in September are half the number of graduating students. Eventually, we expect the number of companies visiting us to be more than the number of students graduating.

So don't worry about the placement. Focus on your education. Focus on quality. Do hard work. Have high aspirations. Have the aspirations to change the world. And no doubt, you will succeed.

It is not possible to write down everything here. But let me invite each one of you to visit the beautiful campus and see things for yourself. You may contact me directly for any queries. You may visit admissions page at: https://applications.jklu.edu.in/lp/application2021.html

Best wishes. Jai Hind.

Collaboration with Indian institutions

 A few days ago, someone sent me the link to a news item, Cluster system to be initiated in nine Hyderabad colleges. These 9 colleges are working on an agreement with each other to allow students of other colleges to take their courses with a process of credit transfer. Later, there would also be faculty of one college teaching a course in another college.

This caught my attention. Of course, NEP 2020 talks about creating clusters of nearby colleges, and this seems the first such step to implement the same. The reason this caught my attention was that we often hear of Indian institutions signing MoUs with foreign universities, but not so much with Indian universities. And I have pointed this out repeatedly in my social media posts. So happy to see that NEP2020 is beginning to address that at least for colleges which are physically close to each other.

 But what about institutions geographically far apart. Even if just consider teaching, it should be possible to register for an online course sitting anywhere, and in the post Covid era, even spend a semester fully at another institution.

And collaboration is not necessarily only for student exchange. As I have personally done in the past, faculty can teach a course in another institution. Of course, joint research projects are something that faculty in good institutions are already doing. But there can be collaboration in other processes also.

For example, can we collaborate in admissions. We already see government institutions doing join counseling. We also see that technical universities doing joint counseling for all engineering colleges affiliated to it. But what about universities. Slowly the number of students enrolled in private universities is increasing and the number in affiliated colleges is decreasing. If some of the private universities join hands and do admissions together through a common portal, similar to that offered by technical universities, this would be a great convenience for the students and parents. They don't have to fill a large number of forms, they don't have to pay money to multiple universities to reserve their seats and every time they get a better admission offer, seek refund from the previous one, and so on. And it is not just the convenience of students and parents. It also reduces the cost of student acquisition for the universities. The amount of money spent in admission publicity by private universities is humongous. If there is a common portal then all participants in the common admission process can reduce their advertising cost. And note, it is possible that every college may have its own admission criteria. They don't have to have a common merit list for them to use a common portal. Just like NITs and IITs don't have a common merit list and yet they use a common portal. So we all keep our academic autonomy and freedom to decide our admission criteria and still use a common portal. One huge advantage is the geographic reach of the university increases. If there are 5 universities who all have their sphere of influence in their region, a common portal will mean that students checking out the university in their region will notice the universities of other region as well.

This is my long cherished dream that I have been writing about for more than a decade. I recall when I was at LNMIIT more than a decade ago, I had written to private universities within Rajasthan making this suggestion. It didn't happen then, and it may not happen in near future, but I will keep working on it.

Similarly, why can't we have joint degree programs between two universities of India. In fact, one of my dreams is a program where a student spends time at 3-4 institutions and get a joint degree signed by all these institutions. Again, we work with foreign universities for these things and not within the country. This will allow each institution to leverage their strengths and contribute the most in that area.

I hope there are others out there who think similarly, and I would be happy to take any collaboration proposal which is of mutual benefit to the board of JKLU for consideration.

JKLU Partners with University of Birmingham

This week we announced a partnership with University of Birmingham in UK. We are very excited about it since UoB is a top 100 university in the world and getting access to such a university for our students will obviously boost their learning and their careers. The current partnership will mostly benefit our engineering students though we will keep working with them in the future to expand the scope of this relationship.

The partnership entails two things. One is being able to move to UoB after completing their 2nd year at JKLU and earning the under-graduate degree from there (in a total of 4 years) with cutting edge specializations, and the other is a semester abroad program.

The first aspect of the partnership is applicable to students of Mechanical Engineering and Electronics Engineering. They can pursue degrees in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automotive engineering. Of course, they can also continue with a broad based degrees in Mechanical or Electronics too, if they so desire. Students who are performing well at JKLU can get lateral admission to these bachelors programs at UoB. This will be of interest to those students who want a specialization in their Bachelors degree and may want an international career. The fact that UoB is situated at the heart of innovation in UK, and has been rated number one on the list of UK universities most frequently targeted by the country's top employers in 2021 is a big plus.

Studying abroad is expensive but these partnerships bring the threshold lower so that more people can afford it. In this particular case, one needs to spend only two years abroad and hence there is a cost reduction. Also, when you go through this partnership, there is a significant scholarship (up to 20% of the tuition there) that further reduces the cost. And what JKLU does is that it will charge the same tuition from students interested in these programs as it charges other engineering students (unlike some other private institutions who have a higher fee for students who show interest in such partnerships). In fact, since students interested in such partnerships will have to have a higher marks in 12th class, most of them will get a substantial scholarship from JKLU (usually between 50% and 100% of both academic fee and hostel fee, check our website for exact rules for scholarships in the first year, and rules for continuation in successive years).

It may be noted that the current policy of UK government is to allow foreign graduates of UK universities to stay on for two more years after graduation. Of course, these rules keep changing. But the current policy appears to be to attract foreign students to UK by allowing them extra time beyond graduation and also allow work visa to highly qualified individuals.

JKLU has always believed that exposure to the best in the world is extremely useful for students in their careers and those who can afford it should go for it. The future of work is in working with teams across nations, across cultures and across disciplines and an exposure to diversity and high quality as a student will prepare you for that future. For those who cannot afford, we do try to bring in faculty from different backgrounds, sometimes for full courses and sometimes for guest lectures. And we are delighted that our engineering students will have an option to spend a semester (maximum two) at UoB.

If you are interested in knowing more about this or any other international partnership of JKLU, please write to international.affairs@jklu.edu.in

Examination Cancelled, Results next month

Title of this blog is from a headline on 2nd June, the day after CBSE was asked to cancel its 12th class examination. And I wonder if anyone felt that there was something strange about this headline. Result of what, if exams are cancelled.

No, I am not suggesting that CBSE should have waited indefinitely for situation to improve and then conducted the exams. That would be too stressful and we needed a closure on this batch. But suggesting that we should have an artificial method to guess how many marks a student would have got if the exam was conducted is something I find very strange.

But this is nothing new. Last year too, we had scores of some subjects been filled as average of other subjects. In many universities, marks of courses done in 3rd year were put as average of previous two years. Nobody thought that assigning marks in history on the basis of marks scored in Hindi was strange.

Was there an option. Of course, there was. CBSE could say on the 12th class marksheet that no public exam was conducted and the marks are as assigned by schools (with some regulations) and hence cannot be compared. So CBSE would have said that they had the confidence that if a school was declaring a student passed, they too could declare that the student had enough capabilities that they expected from someone passing a 12th class exam. What this would have meant is that CBSE was not commenting on the specific marks assigned by schools and was not recommending that marks assigned by one school be comparable with marks assigned by another school.

Would this have been acceptable to stakeholders, particularly those who till the month of May were shouting that our system is bad because it considered examinations as sacrosanct. No way. While exams are considered bad, marks are important. How would university admissions take place unless CBSE certifies that marks are comparable.

But shouldn't that be a problem of the university system. May be they would have still treated marks of different schools as equivalent just like they treat marks of different boards as equivalent today. Or may be this would have forced the universities to come up with a better system of admissions.

But the nice thing about the whole issue is that no one cares about lying (or certifying marks in one subject based on how student had performed in unrelated subjects two years ago), and no one cares about quality or merit. Universities need a metric, however bad it may be, but which can be used to rank all admission seekers in a serial order and which will not be quashed by the courts. The only value of 12th class marks is to satisfy courts that admissions were done without any favoritism.

Note that I am not at all suggesting that there should have been exams. I am not at all bothered that everyone seems to have passed with high marks. My only concern is that a Board is certifying those marks which are not based on any exam.

LSE Foundation makes MS from UMass affordable

Two years ago, Lakshmipat Singhania Education (LSE) Foundation had an agreement with University of Massachusetts Amherst regarding making selected masters programs of UMass accessible to Indian students who otherwise cannot afford them. The agreement made it possible through two mechanisms. 

First, since the MS programs accept students from diverse backgrounds and they need to do many basic courses before they can take up advanced courses, LSE Foundation took the responsibility of ensuring that those basic courses will be completed in India. This reduces the cost substantially as the student can complete the required advanced credits specific to that MS program within just one year in US.

Second, all students who go through LSE Foundation will be provided a scholarship to pay for a little over 50% of the tuition costs at UMass when the student is there. So you pay less than 50% of the usual tuition at UMass for the period you are on their campus.

This scheme has other advantages as well. University of Mass. requires 16 years of education for admission to its Masters programs (12 years of schooling and 4 years of college). This normally means that students who have done a 3-year bachelors program in India cannot be admitted to Masters programs there. But in this agreement, since the students will do one additional year of college in India (to complete all those basic courses), they are eligible to get admission to MS. UMass will process applications and may have a personal interview and if they find the student suitable, offer admission subject to completing this one year in India successfully.

The other advantage is that they waive the requirement of GRE/TOEFL for students coming through this route.

UMass faculty will keep in touch with these students throughout the year by means of special lectures/seminars, etc. Also, since this is a regular MS program, you get the permission for work after this Masters as Practical Training like any other MS from any US university.

There are three MS programs at UMass where admission is possible through this route. They are:

• MS in Data Analytics and Computational Social Science
• MS in Resource Economics 
• Masters in Public Policy

These are very well regarded programs of UMass. The first two MS programs (Data Analytics and Resource Economics) are classified as STEM program and hence eligible for additional OPT benefits.

Why am I writing about this. First, because I find this a very exciting opportunity to study in a top university in the world. If there was a program of interest to my daughter, I would have encouraged her to apply.  Second, because LSE Foundation has chosen JKLU to conduct those common courses for all students selected for this program. So we run the academic part of this program.

The academic content that has been prepared in consultation with UMass is so interesting that we were reached out by some students early on in 2019 asking if they could do just that part and not necessarily seek admission to MS in UMass. So the LSE Foundation decided that we should offer a one-year Diploma that we call "Post Graduate Diploma in Analysis and Research" to all students irrespective of whether they go on to UMass or not.

The faculty for this program is carefully selected and several of them are visiting faculty from top institutions of India.

Currently, the admission for this year's PGDAR program is open. (These will go to UMass in Fall 2022.)

I would be happy to answer any questions or point to the right person who can answer your questions on these programs.

BTech@JKLU: Can high quality education be free of cost?

Is your JEE Mains performance in the year 2020 or Jan/Feb 2021 higher than 80 percentile. Do you know someone who meets this criteria and is looking for admissions to engineering programs. Then this blog post is for you.

I am only explaining the scholarship policy for BTech admission this year. A small blurb about the program is written below. But I would be happy to answer any questions on the program itself. Please write them as comments below or send me an email.

Most universities provide scholarships to some of their students. JKLU also does. Most scholarships are meant to cover a part of the cost and not the entire or even substantial cost. We also did the same. And in many institutions, the criteria for continuing the scholarship is restrictive and as a result, the number of scholarships in successive years are much less than initial offerings. We followed the industry practice. We were always more liberal in providing scholarships than our peers, but we now want to go much further. After all, we are completing 10 years.

We are making it easier for good students to have free education in all four years, and for a very large number of students, we will make costs very low. This, together with the opportunity to learn with a pedagogy and curriculum designed in collaboration with the best in the world, with international gateways, innovative faculty and unique inter-disciplinary curriculum, makes it a very special opportunity.

Sample this: Male applicants with a JEE Mains score of 91 percentile or higher will get complete waiver of both academic fee and hostel fee. Female applicants get free education at 90 percentile or higher. This means, going by JEE numbers last year, an unprecedented opportunity of free high-quality engineering education.

Academic fee includes everything that is normally charged by universities, be it tuition, development fee, exam fee, registration fee, and god knows how many different lines are there in the fee schedule. We have only one number and you get complete waiver of the same. And even the hostel room is free for these students. The only thing you pay for are utilities and mess bill to make it even for day scholars and hostelers. That is it.

What is more. You get to keep this 100% free education for all four years if you maintain a CGPA of 8.0. Easy for students who are in the top 10 percent of the country. And by chance, you slip below 8.0. We don't remove scholarships completely. You still get a 75% waiver. So almost free. You can see details at the scholarship webpage.

We also have other levels of scholarships. 75 percent waiver for JEE Mains percentile of 89 to 91 (for female students: 87 to 90), 50 percent waiver for JEE Mains percentile of 87 to 89 (for female students: 84 to 87) and a 25 percent waiver for JEE Mains percentile of 83 to 87 (for female students: 79 to 84). We want to encourage female students to go for engineering education and hence the JEE Mains performance required for the same level is significantly lower than male students. Again, please do check out our scholarship page for details.

We will consider both the performance in JEE Mains 2020 as well as performance in JEE Mains 2021 (January and February rounds that have already happened). If you take JEE Mains multiple times, including in both years, we consider the best performance.

Here is the link for admissions page for more information and application.

Is there a catch? Of course, there is. Internally, we do have a budget for scholarships which is very liberal this year but not infinite. The current policy is applicable only for applications that we receive till Monday June 21st, 2021. We will make admission offers by 25th June, and a small initial payment will be required by 30th June. (For those who are offered 100% fee waiver, the initial deposit will be equivalent to the security deposit that we charge, that is, Rs. 10,000, and for others the initial deposit will be Rs. 25,000 only.)

An immediate question will arise. What if one changes one's mind and decides to take admission in another institution. We respect your decision. And we will refund your deposit but for a small fee of Rs. 1,000. And we will be quick. Very unlike many other institutions that may take months to refund and deduct 5,000 or even 10,000 rupees.

Another question: I took JEE in Jan/Feb. I have a percentile score of 89.5 which as per your table makes me eligible for 75% waiver. But what if I take next round of JEE and get a score of higher than 91 percentile. Would I be considered for 100% waiver.

Answer: Your scholarship depends on the policy as on the date of your application. If you apply before 18th June, we will offer you 75% waiver and if you accept that offer and deposit the initial fee, and later you show us proof of improved JEE score, we will upgrade your offer to 100% waiver. But if you do not apply and do not accept admission by 30th June, the scholarship policy as on the date of application will be applicable.

About the program:

JKLU offers BTech programs in Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineeringwith exciting areas of specializations. We have a strong Project-based learning pedagogy that has been developed with the help of Olin College of Engineering, USA ranked among top 3 Engineering undergraduate programs (non doctoral) in the US by US News & World Report for 2021 and 2020, and was named along with MIT, as the top leaders in engineering education globally. We have close interactions with industry and in fact, it is necessary to spend one semester in industry. We also encourage our students to spend a semester in another fine institution in India or abroad. Our students have been to IIT Gandhinagar, University of Florida, University of Amsterdam and other places. Committed to our students’ entry into and long terms success in their chosen careers, our Centre for Communication & Critical Thinking helps them become confident, articulate and independent thinking professional. Our Director of Engineering, Prof. Sanjay Goel, an alumnus of BITS Pilani and IIT Delhi, is a well known academician with rich experience in leading innovations in engineering education. Similarly, the faculty is mostly with PhDs, and has been recruited from fine institutions.The infrastructure of JKLU is state of the art and we welcome all potential students and parents to visit us (if Covid situation permits) before taking a final decision. When you apply for admission, ask the admissions office that you wish to speak to some faculty member. Get answers to as many questions as you have. The career choices should be decided very carefully.

I join JKLU: A small university with big aspirations

 As people following me on social media know, I have joined a small, young, private university in Jaipur as its next Vice Chancellor. The university is J K Lakshmipat University (JKLU), founded in 2011 by generous support from J K Organization. JKO, as any Indian would know is one of the oldest industrial house in India with businesses in diverse sectors and well known for its philanthropic activities.

When I announced my decision to seek retirement from IIT Kanpur and join JKLU, many of my friends were surprised. But I was itching to join a university which is open to doing things differently, one that had desire to achieve excellence, where the promoters were willing to invest in the future, and there will be enough autonomy to do all this. After having spent time at multiple institutions, it was becoming clear to me that I would have greater impact in private setting than public setting. I recall that of all the places I enjoyed my stint at LNMIIT Jaipur the most, and I believe that stint was the most impactful of all my leadership roles. Many friends who knew about my yearning for a new role tried to dissuade me. There aren't many such institutions in the country. But I didn't care. I didn't care if there were 100 such institutions or not. I only cared if there was one such institution. (And to be honest, I have come across several private institutions today who will meet this criteria. Higher education in India is changing.)

I had known about JKLU earlier. On 1st November, 2017, I had met Pramath Sinha and Asheesh Gupta regarding some other educational initiatives and in that meeting they told me about JKLU and wanted me to be advising the university. And so it started. From January 2018 to January 2019, I spent two days a month in most of the months at JKLU. I interacted with all the top leadership and faculty. Participated in their discussions on all academic matters. We had a faculty member from Olin College to help us in designing courses around project-based learning approach. (The Olin approach is very different from what colleges in India do in the name of project-based-learning.) The University was kind enough to send me to Olin in the summer of 2018 to learn the Olin way of education. I was part of faculty selections and we could recruit faculty from IITs and abroad. A Center for Communication and Critical Thinking was set up to support all academic programs as it was felt that these two skills are extremely important to future proof your education. We setup an office of Dean of R&D which supports faculty members when they submit sponsored research projects and want to file patents. We also created an incubation center. I was quite excited about my limited role and was extremely happy to see the pace at which things were changing. I knew that one day I would come back to this place for a full time role.

After joining PEC in 2019, I stopped going to JKLU. But they kept sending me their newsletter and I kept on learning of all their new initiatives. In 2019, they started their third major discipline - Design. (The first two were Engineering and Management.) They had recruited a truly exceptional faculty for Design and it could claim to provide education at par or better than the best design schools in India. There is a push to internationalization of education. We would like as many of our students to spend a semester in a good university abroad as possible and have a few agreements to support this. We have a very interesting program with Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst where the first year is done at JKLU and the second year at UMass with a very large scholarship provided by JK Organization to reduce the cost of education in US. We also support our students going to top Indian institutions, including IITs, for a semester exchange. 

We believe that the future lies with multi-disciplinarity. And as New Education Policy (NEP 2020) also mandates, we will be growing in other disciplines including basic sciences and liberal arts over the next few years.

We are tiny as the universities go. We do want to make an impact on the society and we understand that we need a critical mass to do that. We are growing in all three areas: Engineering, Management and Design. I am going to write a separate article on them soon. This one was just to introduce JKLU to my readers.