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stitution, professional development   ADMISSION & FEES            excellent board exam results. Of the
         training workshops are organised                                  124 students who wrote the CBSE
         regularly,” says Ashish Gulati,   BD Blue Bells Public School is a   class X exam in February 2024, 59
         an alum of Manipal & Manchester   CBSE-affiliated K-12 co-ed day   averaged above 90 percent while
         universities and the top-ranked   school. Admission applications for   the school and CBSE topper Ayshi
         Management Development Institute,   kindergarten-class XI are invited   Gupta averaged 99.4 percent. Of the
         Gurugram, and Vice Chairman of the   round the year. An interview fol-  133 students who wrote the class XII
         Blue Bells Group of Schools       lowed by written test is mandatory   exam, 41 students scored above 90
           Inevitably, sports education is   for class I applicants.       percent.
         accorded high importance. The     Tuition fee (annual): Rs.179,760-  With this 21-year-old school hav-
         school’s impressive sports infrastruc-  209,040                   ing established a formidable reputa-
         ture includes a dedicated cricket   For further information, contact   tion in the national capital region,
         ground, indoor sports arena, a    (Ph):0124-499400/401; Email: bb-  the top management has drawn up a
         football ground, two basketball, six   public@bluebells.org       master plan to “continuously upgrade
         badminton, lawn tennis and vol-                                   and innovate”. “We intend to consis-
         leyball courts, a table-tennis room,                              tently invest in our three critical pil-
         roller-skating rink, separate rooms   ern dance, sculpture among others    lars of learning — pedagogy, holistic
         for yoga, aerobics, chess, carrom and   is also an integral component of the   well-being and technology — to equip
         Taekwondo. Unsurprisingly, Blue   curriculum. In addition, 19 hobby   our learners with future-ready skills
         Bellians have excelled in national   clubs are offered to primary-sec-  and values. Simultaneously our expe-
         cricket, badminton and other inter-  ondary students to promote literary,   rienced faculty is regularly brought
         school tournaments.              creative, technical, and artistic skills.   up to speed with advanced person-
           Co-curricular education — music,   The school’s focus on balanced   alised learning programs to give of
         karate, fine arts, classical and West-  education has paid off by way of   their best,” says Ashish Gulati.



         Purdue University, USA



         US & News Report in its Best Colleges
         Rankings 2025 ranks Purdue #46 in America
         — the only public university to be ranked
         among the Top 50



                ITED IN WEST LAFAYETTE (a two-hour drive
                from Chicago), Purdue is one of America’s top-
                ranked public universities with a global reputa-
         Stion for the quality of academics and research,
         especially in the sciences and engineering. Twenty-seven
         of its alumni have been selected for space missions and
         four awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and chemistry. US
         & News Report in its Best Colleges Rankings 2025 ranks
         Purdue #46 in America — the only public university to be   Purdue's West Lafayette campus: global reputation
         ranked among the Top 50 with 12 undergraduate programs
         ranked among the nation’s Top 10. Internationally, Times   physical campuses, extension centers in each of Indiana’s
         Higher Education World University Rankings (2025) ranks   92 counties, and continuing education programmes. Its
         it #86 and QS #89 in their latest 2025 league tables.  flagship West Lafayette campus hosts over 50,000 students
           Promoted in 1869 as a land-grant university, Purdue is   including 8,956 from overseas representing more than 135
         named after industrialist John Purdue who generously en-  countries.
         dowed $150,000 and 100 acres of land for establishing the   Purdue’s 12 colleges — agriculture, business, education,
         university. Currently, Purdue is one of the largest varsities   engineering, exploratory studies, health and human sci-
         in the US with an enrolment of 75,000 students across five   ences, liberal arts, pharmacy, science, veterinary medicine,

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