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tive learning skills,” says Deepak Of the 171 CPS students who wrote
Sharma, a commerce and busi- ADMISSION & FEES the CBSE class XII school-leaving
ness management alum of Pune exam in February-March this year,
and Symbiosis universities who quit Central Public School, Udaipur is 21 averaged more than 90 percent
a high-profile corporate career in a K-12 co-ed day-cum-boarding with toppers Shrikant Dixit (sci-
2009, to lessen the burden of manag- institution affiliated with the Central ence) and Ramesh P. Choudhary
ing the three thoroughly modern and Board of Secondary Education, Del- (humanities) averaging 97.4 and
progressive schools promoted by his hi. Registration forms are available 96.4 percent respectively. In the
mother. at the school office in November. 2020 class X board exam, 31 of 198
An avid biker and fitness enthu- students averaged 90 percent-plus.
siast, Deepak’s first priority is to Admission is through a written test “Although I am fairly satisfied
sharply improve sports education in followed by separate interviews with with the development and
this 31-year-old school. Its sports in- parents and students. evolution of CPS and our rank
frastructure includes a multi-sports Tuition fee (annual): Rs.32,220- as Udaipur’s premier school in
ground, a 15-metre swimming pool, 51,725 the latest EducationWorld India
synthetic badminton and tennis For further details contact Ph: School Rankings, we have drawn
courts, cricket and soccer fields and 02942415641; email:info@cpsudai- up a strategy to improve our scores
Rajasthan’s first roller skating rink. under every parameter of school
CPS students have excelled at the pur.com education excellence with special
International Roller Speed Cham- focus on continuous professional
pionship in 2019 as also in other and stone sculpture, pottery, batik development programmes for our
sports events organised by CBSE art and the performing arts — is an teachers. Our goal is to become
and the School Games Federation integral component of the school Rajasthan’s #1 day-cum-boarding
of India. curriculum. school within the next two years
Co-curricular education — de- The CPS management’s holistic and replicate the CPS holistic
bate, elocution, vocal and instru- education strategy has paid off by education model in other districts of
mental music, art and crafts, wood way of excellent academic outcomes. Rajasthan,” says Deepak Sharma.

Princeton University, USA

Alumni include US Presidents James Madison
and Woodrow Wilson and the former first lady
Michelle Obama. Currently the university has
5,267 students mentored by 1,289 faculty

STABLISHED ALMOST THREE CENTURIES ago
— 19 years before declaration of the United States
of America as a sovereign nation — Princeton
EUniversity (estb.1746) has matured into a glob-
ally venerated institution. This vintage private Ivy League
research varsity is routinely ranked among the world’s Top
10 and among the Top 3 in the US by most rating agen-
cies. In the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges
Rankings, Princeton has been ranked #1 or #2 for almost Princeton vista: routinely global Top 10. Inset: C.L. Eisgruber
two decades (2001-2019) and in the latest World University
Rankings of the London-based Times Higher Education, tions globally, in March, Princeton had moved all classes
it is ranked #6 worldwide. Alumni include US Presidents and lectures online. However on July 6, the university is-
James Madison and Woodrow Wilson and former first lady sued a statement that undergraduates will be able to return
Michelle Obama. Currently its four faculties — humanities, to campus for one semester during the 2020-21 academic
engineering, natural and social sciences — provide four- year, with first-year students and juniors welcomed back
year liberal arts undergrad, postgraduate and doctoral to campus for the fall semester (beginning August 31), and
programmes to 5,267 students mentored by 1,289 faculty. sophomores and seniors for the spring semester. (Since
With the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic having hugely then as we go to press, this plan has been rescinded.) In
disrupted education and forced closure of education institu- the case of graduate students, “the university will welcome

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