The Chandigarh University (CU) would provide scholarships to more than 800 students in various disciplines for next academic session said the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University Dr R S Bawa while addressing newsmen here on Tuesday.
The university has named the scheme ‘CU- SAT’ and the university officials claim scholarships worth Rs 10 crore would be disturbed under the programme.
“The All India Entrance Test would be conducted online in the month of May-June 2017 based upon which scholarships would be offered to more than 800 students. Students from any stream would be eligible to appear for the online entrance examination and Test Centers would be available across 19 states of the country.
We would offer 100 percent scholarship to first 1 percent toppers while the next 2 percent toppers would be given 50 percent scholarship during their course tenure. In addition the university offers guaranteed scholarship of 5 percent to every student who would secure at least 60 percent marks in the examination,’’ he said.
The university has also kept 5 percent seats reserved in every course for the wards of defence personnel. He said that the university students have filed 61 patents in last two years.
Dr Bawa claimed that C U is North India’s first university to have signed partnership with more than 150 top ranking international universities from all across the
globe.
He said that the university students have filed 61 patents in last two years.
The VC also launched a professional career counselling facility for students
of Uttarakhand on the occasion.