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SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY CROSSES HISTORIC MILESTONE
Holds maiden convocation on October 31
295 degrees were awarded in a hi tech well-attended show made special by inspiring convocation addresses
by Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India and Dr Raj Reddy, Professor of
Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Shiv Nadar also sat through the whole event
lasting over 3 hours
I
n words of Arvind Subramanian,
Chief Economic Advisor, Shiv Nadar
University or SNU has been a
remarkable experiment in higher
education in India. Set up in 2011
through an act of the State of Uttar
Pradesh under the aegis of HCL
promoted Shiv Nadar Foundation, SNU
has a huge campus of 286 acres with Rs
1500 investment so far According to
Nikhil Sinha, vice-chancellor, “Today
we have about 1,800 students enrolled at
the university, who come from 27 states
in the country and are pursuing degrees
across four schools: School of
Humanities & Social Sciences, School
of Natural Sciences, School of
Engineering, and School of
Management & Entrepreneurship. We
have recently launched a fifth school, the
School of Extended Education and
Professional Development, which is
focused on extending the reach of the
university by offering short-duration
educational and training programs to
individuals, companies, and
governmental and non-governmental
organizations.”
The first batch of 265 students was
admitted in August 2011. So it was this
historic batch that made
SNU history with the
inaugural convocation.
Speaking at the occasion
Dr S N Balakrishnan,
Chancellor, Shiv Nadar
University, said, “This is