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O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat: national and global encomiums

estb.2009) has not only maintained learning continuity, has acquired is especially commendable since this wholly
and successfully graduated 1,569 students in 2020-21, it residential law and liberal arts varsity is only 12 years of
has also won numerous encomiums in India and abroad age — having modestly celebrated its 12th birthday on Sep-
for higher education excellence. This young law, social sci- tember 30. On the other hand, India’s #1 private university
ences, liberal arts and humanities university established 12 in the EW rankings — Manipal Academy of Higher Educa-
years ago in memory of steel tycoon, O.P. Jindal (1930- tion (MAHE) — was established in 1953 and the #1 public
2005) by a trust chaired by his son Naveen Jindal, a for- university — Indian Institute of Science — in 1906.
mer Member of Parliament, is acknowledged as India’s #1 Credit for record breaking project implementation —
private university by the globally-reputed Quacquarelli Sy- JGU was registered as a private university in 2009 and
monds (QS), a London-based agency which annually ranks admitted its first batch of 112 students in its law school
1,300 universities in 100 countries worldwide. on September 30 that year — is unanimously awarded to
In its latest QS World University Rankings 2022, QS the winning combination of steel industry tycoon and two-
ranks JGU among the Top 750 universities of the world and term Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal, the founding
among the Top 500 worldwide for employability of gradu- chancellor and Dr. C. Raj Kumar, the polymath founding
ates. Moreover, QS also ranks the university’s Jindal Global vice chancellor of JGU.
Law School #76 worldwide and #1 in India in the QS World In 2006 Raj Kumar, a young (34) whiz kid alum of Ma-
University Rankings by subjects and among the Top 150 dras, Delhi, Oxford, Harvard and Hong Kong universities
under age 50 in the QS Young University Rankings 2021. and at the time professor of law at City University of Hong
In the EducationWorld India Private Higher Educa- Kong, had prepared a well-researched paper titled ‘Estab-
tion Rankings 2020-21 based on the perceptions of 4,141 lishing India’s First Global University’. This comprehensive
knowledgeable sample respondents comprising university paper impressed then Union law and justice minister H.R.
faculty, final year college/university students and industry Bhardwaj of the Congress-led UPA-I government who for-
leaders, JGU is ranked #3 in India with top score under the warded it to Jindal, who had been elected on a Congress
parameter of competence of faculty and high scores under ticket to the Lok Sabha in 2004 from the Kurukshetra
infrastructure and internationalism. (Haryana) constituency. Also a well-educated commerce
The excellent national and global reputation that JGU graduate of Delhi University with an MBA from the Uni-

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