Campus Area at Jindal Global Business School

 

Jindal Global Business School is one of the constituent schools/ departments of OP Jindal Global University, the top private university in India according to the QS rankings. With a carefully curated curriculum reflecting the priorities of the university– cutting-edge research, hands-on learning, multidisciplinary education, skill development, academic freedom, and global collaboration– the school managed to carve out a niche for itself in the field of business education in India in less than a decade. No wonder the University is the youngest Indian university in the top 300 BRICS higher education institutions.

This article will present you with a bird’s eye view of the campus life at Jindal Global Business School, hovering over some essential particulars, including the campus, student facilities, co-curricular and sports facilities, and hostel and mess. 

Jindal Global Business School is spread over an aesthetic campus area of 80 acres, festooned with multiple well-trimmed mini-gardens, geometric green lawns, gorgeous flower beds, and multiple towering trees. Through this lush green patch is a smooth track of a zillion hexagonal tiles leading to different locations on the campus. 

The four-storeyed academic block divided into three blocks– T1, T2, and T3– is an ornamental attraction in itself. It has a massive build-up area of 3,00,000 sq. ft. and is designed by an acclaimed French architect Stephane Paumier, bringing with him the artistic euphoria of the Renaissance. As a tribute to Naveen Jindal, the Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power Limited, the academic block is bejeweled by a multitude of crisscrossed steel girders. 

Inside this towering building are its magnificent classrooms of two types. The first is a parliament-type room with four layers of curved wooden desks and cushioned blue chairs arranged along an increasing slope. From above, it looks like the seating arrangements in the parliament. The classrooms also have state-of-the-art audio-visual systems, centralised AC, LED lighting, and a projector. 

Similarly, the type-II classrooms are like a conference hall with a three-layer vertical seating system with cushioned office chairs on the left and right sides of the presenter/ teacher’s table, and two layers of desks in front of the teacher’s table. With multiple gateways to enter, this classroom has transparent French windows draped with crimson-red shutters. It also has two projectors on the sides and an interactive LCD TV in the middle.

Global Jindal’s library, occupying a massive 10,000 sq. ft. area in the academic building, has around 70,000 books, monographs, research publications, reports, periodicals, etc., divided into general and reference collections. The general collection includes course-related manuscripts whereas the reference collection is a storehouse of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, multivolume treatises, etc. It also has copies of the research projects undertaken by the students/ faculty of the university. Moreover, the smart library also provides the students with a dedicated personal reading space, group reading areas, and a United Nations model reading room with computer devices for browsing. 

Jindal Global Business School has unparalleled state-of-the-art facilities for multiple indoor and outdoor games, including basketball, badminton, cricket, football, volleyball, table tennis, chess, carrom, swimming, pool/ snooker, etc. The University, therefore, has a mammoth football ground, a dedicated cricket pitch, and a volleyball and basketball court. It also has a swimming pool. Moreover, it also has facilities for yoga, dance, and aerobics, along with a well-equipped gymnasium with international-quality equipment, including treadmills, spinners, strength stations, cross-trainers, etc. In addition, the hostels gave mini-gymnasiums where yoga, aerobics, and cardiovascular exercise sessions are organised.  

The Student’s Common Room is a hub of recreational activities at Jindal Global Business School. It has multiple indoor sports facilities, including a snooker table, a pool table, a foosball table, and a table tennis table. Also, there are facilities available for playing board games. The common room has multiple projection screens for playing movies, presentations, music, TV shows, etc., and a dedicated space for arranging mini-birthday parties. The common room also has a round-the-clock attendant for the convenience of the students.

Jindal Global Business School also has an ICT-enabled auditorium with two projectors, impressive speaker systems, and microphone-enabled tables for the students seated. Moreover, it also has a fully ICT-enabled ‘Big Bang Conference Room’ with microphone-enabled seats for the participants seated at a traditional elliptical conference table. For holding external events, the institution also has an open-air amphitheatre with a majestic stage system with spotlights, speakers, and LCD screens, which remains occupied round-the-year with a variety of events. 

Finally, Jindal Global Business School is a fully-residential campus with outstanding accommodation facilities for the students. The University Hall of Residence, as they call it, is also designed by Paumier, with spacious corridors, open spaces, and common rooms for recreation in all three blocks, with separate blocks for male and female students. The aesthetically finished rooms follow international standards with picturesque surrounding with lawns, trees, and bushes. The accommodation for male students is on a triple-sharing basis, whereas that of female students is on a quadruple-sharing. Moreover, there are dedicated spaces for recreation, including mini gymnasiums and indoor and outdoor sports areas. 

Sodexo, a French multinational, manages the dining. However, a first-class kitchen is also available where a wide array of cuisines is prepared and served. The university also has multiple food courts, including Subway, Burger Point, Domino’s Pizza, BRC, Bercos, etc. They also have tuck shops for tea, coffee, juice, and snacks. However, being a fully-residential campus, the University does not offer any transportation facility for students. It’s a self-sufficient campus meeting every need of the students. 

To sum up, life at Jindal Global Business School is breathtakingly spectacular. The campus is stunningly self-sufficient and aesthetically pleasing. It is a place where world-class infrastructure meets the beauty of the eyes, with a picturesque campus area, academic block with criss-cross cantilevers, well-equipped computer labs, smart classrooms, state-of-the-art library, indoor and outdoor sports facilities, recreational areas, conference hall, auditorium, and an amphitheater, and world-class accommodation and dining facilities. 

About the Author

Adwaith PB is a fantasist. Dwelling merrily in his world of Oriental myths, of giants, nymphs, and anthropomorphic dragons, his absent-mindedness always lands him in unforeseen hardships. As a deviation, he writes his heart out in the moonlight. And in the sun, he’s a student of the epics and perils of the political, contemplating its wayward laboratory– the society.