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Spotlight 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