No. 1 technical university: Punjab Technical University has been ranked No. 1 technical university in India by Indian Society of Technical Education in 2013, encouraging technical universities to enhance the performance and serve the community by improving quality and maintaining standard of the program offered.

Getting an engineering degree from India’s finest university automatically adds an edge to your qualifications. The skills and knowledge acquired here always keep you ahead in life, be it job or your own business.

Punjab Technical University is a State Government run University which was established in the year 1997, under the Punjab Technical University Act, 1996 (Punjab Act No. 1 of 1997), for the establishment and incorporation of a University for the advancement of technical education and development in the state of Punjab.

Introducing for the first time in Engineering Education, digital streaming of lectures from IITs for better understanding of concepts. Punjab Technical University’s- University Campus Program will necessarily include lectures that are streamed directly from the IITs in the classes across University Campuses

This program inculcates strong understanding and conceptual foundation of engineering like engineering coveted IITs. QEEE under Ministry of Human Resource & Development has worked hard in revamping and putting together a new model under which engineering education in India will get delivered in near future.

The faculties of University Campus Program comprise of the sharpest minds from the finest institutes in India like IITs and the NITs, to enable students to understand, learn and excel in their respective streams.

This program inculcates strong understanding and conceptual foundation of engineering like engineering coveted IITs. QEEE under Ministry of Human Resource & Development has worked hard in revamping and putting together a new model under which engineering education in India will get delivered in near future.

Select meritorious students under University Campus Program will be sent to study abroad for high end training for a semester in cutting edge technological world at various foreign universities. These include University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Toronto, Canada, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, University of Tokyo, Japan, and Dongguk University, South Korea.

The students get exposed to international environment of learning, new cultures and develop immensely in becoming global professionals.

This is the first time in India that such program has come into existence, which initiates to create a whole new institution to provide the needed and quality education to less privileged. PTU has collaborated with University of California, Santa Cruz, for this program. The first batch is expected to start from the year 2014. The selection of students for the Indian Institute of Excellence would be based entirely on merit from amongst those studying B.Tech under the University Campus Program.

Selected students get trained in the finest engineering subjects that are brought to India through this unique collaboration. The alumni of such an esteemed institution will be coveted and sought after in the country in the years to come.