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JGU milestones (2009-2021) 55 Interdisciplinary research
centres & 3 research and
capacity building institutes
Sole Indian university to col- 12 13
laborate with Coursera to offer
global online degrees 10 11 Faculty has
First Indian university to published 80
Ranked among Top receive QS IGAUGE ‘E- books and 4,200
research papers;
500 universities Learning Excellence for Jindal Global Law
worldwide by QS for 9 Academic Digitisation’ Review is India’s
Graduate Employabil- certification (E-Lead)
Jindal Global Law School ity (2022) first Scopus-
Ranked among Top 750 ranked global #76 and Indexed law
universities in QS World India #1 (2021) 8 Most international faculty journal
University Rankings 6 in India: 100 full-time from
(2022) and Top 150 7 40 countries
Young Universities in QS
World University Rank- 5 325 academic collaboration
ings (2022) 4 Ranked India’s #1 agreements with universities
private university in QS in 65 countries
Awarded highest ‘A’ WUR (2022)
Grade by NAAC (2016)
and ‘graded autonomy 3 Conferred status of Institu-
status’ by UGC (2018) tion of Eminence by Govern-
ment of India (2020)
1 2
12 schools, 8,200 students,
910 faculty in 12 years

law minister Hansraj Bhardwaj number of 1,500 Zoom webinars, in-
(1937-2020). Impressed by Raj Ku- cluding more than a dozen for K-12
mar’s presentation of his global uni- education leaders and principals in
versity paper, Bhardwaj granted him collaboration with EducationWorld.
a 30-minute interview on the eve of “In the academic year ended 2021,
Independence Day (August 14), 2004. we graduated 1,569 students. In Sep-
The interview stretched to 2.5 hours tember 2021, QS ranked JGU among
and the very next day Bhardwaj in- the world’s Top 500 universities for
troduced him to Naveen Jindal as re- employability of graduates,” declares
counted above. The rest is yet unfold- Raj Kumar.
The rapid speed with which this
ing history. young pre-teens university has risen
T the Jindal Global Law in the rigorously researched QS WUR

WELVE YEARS ON SINCE
(World University Rankings) 2022
School admitted its first
brass whose founder-chairman Nun-
batch of 112 students, its Ben Sowter: extraordinary speed has mightily impressed the QS top
enrolment has increased to 4,500. zio Quacquarelli invented the global
And against its intake of 1,550 in 2021, in India and abroad (see above). university ranking league tables in
JGLS received 9,000 admission appli- Even though the unexpected the 1990s.
cations. Simultaneously, the number black swan Coronavirus pandemic “I’m not sure whether JGU’s vault
of schools within JGU has increased has forced lockdown of JGU’s 82- into the QS global Top 750 within 12
to 12 with an aggregate current enrol- acre campus for over 60 weeks, stu- years after admitting its first batch of
ment of 8,200 students mentored by dents’ learning continuity has been students is unprecedented, but it is
910 highly-qualified faculty, including maintained through introduction of certainly extraordinary. I attribute it
100 drawn from premier universities comprehensive digital online learn- to the management’s identification
around the world. Moreover under Raj ing programmes. According to a JGU of the lacunae in Indian higher edu-
Kumar’s leadership, this young varsity spokesperson, in 2020 the JGU fac- cation, and not least on the excellent
has crossed many milestones with un- ulty conducted 20,000 online classes international education credentials,
precedented speed, winning plaudits and lectures, and broadcast a record high-energy work ethic and network-

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