Panjab University (PU) is a collegiate university-funded jointly by the central and state government located in Chandigarh, India. Established in 1882 as the University of Punjab, Lahore it was relocated in India after the partition in 1947 between India and Pakistan. The university did not have a campus of its own for nearly a decade and at last, in 1956 it got its own campus on a red sandstone designed by Pierre Jeanerette under the guidance of Le Corbusier. The Panjab University has 15 chairs/centers for research and teaching and 78 research and teaching departments at the key campus in Chandigarh. It has affiliations with 189 colleges along with 4 regional centers and 6 constituent colleges. The university has its own radio station which plays the role of combining different groups amongst the university students, faculties and the community at large. According to NIRF rankings 2021, the university has been ranked 27th in the law category, 28th in the research category, 2nd in the pharmacy category 89th among engineering institutions, 23rd in the university category and 38th in the overall category. The university ranked 42nd position in the management category in the NIRF ranking 2020.
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There are a total of seventeen hostels wherein 8 are for boys and 9 are for girls that can accommodate about 6700 students. The Panjab University has created one special hostel for working women with a capacity to lodge 70 residents. Each hostel has a dining hall along with multiple water and desert coolers, a canteen, a visitors' sitting room, and universally an outdoor court for badminton, volleyball etc. Rooms are comfortable fitted with fans, lights and hard furniture.
