LPU - Lovely Professional University Jalandhar Answered Questions

LPU is an internationally acclaimed Private University situated in Jalandhar (Punjab) and is known for its premier engineering programmes. LPU is the best single-campus university poised with the latest technologies and world class facilities for delivering effective and quality education to the students. In order to take admission into B.Tech degree in LPU you need to qualify the eligibity criteria. Eligibility criteria is 60% in 10+2 with English Physics & Mathematics )+ LPUNEST
For Biotechnology, Food Tech and Biomedical engineering. English Physics Chemistry and Maths/ Biology/ Biotech and rest all same
For Chemical English Physics Chemistry and Mathematics and rest all same. LPU NEST cut off scores varies with different domains of B.Tech. JEE (Mains) exam score may be considered for scholarship but you need to qualify the eligibility criteria first. Scholarships are awarded to candidates based on their performance on any of the following categories:
1.1. Scholarship: Eligibility Qualification/ Qualification previous to Eligibility Qualification: The scholarship will also be offered on the basis of Eligibility qualification. For example, on the basis of performance in 10+2 for Undergraduate Programmes LPU NEST (LPU National Entrance & Scholarship Test)Certain National Level Tests (like JEE Main )Performance in Cultural, R&D, Co-curricular, Social Service and Bravery AwardsScholarships/ Fee Benefits for Toppers of School Education Boards
2.2. Financial Aid : Financial Aid for Serving/ Retired Defence/ CAPF/ Para- Military Personnel and their Dependents, Financial Aid to Orphans, Financial Aid to Persons with Certain Disability. Hope the above information helps. Thanks.

Cybersecurity is a booming career space and has a lot of scope in India. Though both the universities are good in academics but being an alumni let me share the details. This programme aims towards creating efficient Computer Science graduates with specialisation in the most relevant technology domains of present times - Cybersecurity and Blockchain which emphasizes comprehensive knowledge of Cyber Crime, Network Security, Cryptography, Threat Intelligence, Intrusion Detection, and Prevention Systems. Students are made to understand the process, practices, and gain knowledge regarding unauthorized access, protection of networks, computers, programs, and data from unknown attacks, and smart contract enforcement mechanisms. Professionals in these technology domains have become an absolute necessity in the functioning of any organisation, be it private enterprises or government entities. The salient features of this course are :-
1. Specialisation and Industry Certifications
12 - 16 specialisation courses. Industry Certifications are integral part of curriculum. Indicative Certifications:
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Cloud +
CompTIA Pentest+
CompTIA CySA+
2. SEED Money
Upto Rs. 20,000/- per student for Designing a Programme/ Software/ Mobile App. Rs. 2 Lacs to Rs. 5 Lacs per project for Startup/ Entrepreneurial Venture. Upto Rs. 10000/- SEED Grant for Innovation/ Research activities.
3. Courses by Foreign Faculty/ Industry Experts (Blended Mode)
Around 40% courses to be taught in online/ blended mode by Industry experts/ Foreign faculty.
12 - 16 courses by Industry experts
3 - 5 courses by Foreign faculty
4. Bootcamps/ Hackathons
Well-structured and short-term, intense training sessions designed to prepare students for the practical reality through bootcamps. Students will be required to participate in various national and international competitions like Hackathons. I hope this information helps. Thanks.

Dear Anuj, Both are good universities. But being alumni of LPU, I wanna share the BBA programme details at LPU with you. The Business School of LPU is accredited by ACBSP, Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs from the USA ensuring quality education and industry-experienced faculty members. The Training and Placement Cell of the University has a team of highly qualified and experienced professionals. The training & placement cell of the university conducts many programs for Enhancing employability such as Professional Enhancement classes, industry experts, Workshops, Mock Drives, Guest Lectures, Summer Internship, and many others. Students can avail of the opportunity like summer programme, credit transfer, international exposure, etc. The university has been ranked high by outer agencies also with regard to placements of students. Around 650+ companies visit every year for campus recruitment of students from LPU. The highest package for the programme is 19.25 LPA and the average package is 3.4 LPA. LPU provides ample opportunities to each and every eligible student of LPU. Companies like Colgate Palmolive, Hindustan Unilever, Godrej Consumer, Asian Paints, Bajaj Allianz, CEAT, Rallis India, etc. Visit LPU for recruitment purposes. For more details of BBA at LPU, you may refer to the LPU website. I hope this helps. All the Best. !

Lot of Job opportunities are available in the field of MCA. Candidates having an MCA degree may have great employment opportunities in top IT companies and top consultancy firms. If you pursue the course from a well-recognised university, you will get the better jobs and career opportunities in this field. MCA is a degree that Apply knowledge of mathematics, optimization techniques, management, and exhaustive computing practices to solve a wide variety of real-world problems. Let me share the salient features of this course in LPU
School of Computer Application, Lovely Professional University is ranked among the top four Computer Applications Institutes of North India by NASSCOM. Students have an instant access to the latest technology labs like iMac, SAP, Cisco, etc. That keeps them updated with the ever-changing technologies
MCA students gain competitive edge through in-house training opportunities. To make the MCA students exposed to real time software development environment, we run In-house Incubation Centre where students get chance to work on third party project during six months internship
All programmes of the department haveUGCapproval
Regularly updated schemes and syllabi based on feedback from industry, academia, and students
State-of-the-art computing resources
Industrial Visits for students to give them industry exposure
Personality Development classes for students to improve their employability
Placement-Oriented Special training sessions for students
All-round development of students through various co-curricular and cultural events
A strong team of experienced and dedicated faculty members actively involved in Research
Workshops and Training Sessions for faculty up-gradation
List of companies where students are working are Cognizan, t Josh, Zycus, ITC, Oracle, Think and learn Techmahindra. Concentrix and many more. I hope this information helps.

Dear Sarjon, Well, both are good but for an engineering programme, I recommend LPU. I am an Alumni of LPU and completed my studies at LPU in 2019. LPU offers engineering in various programmes such as CSE, EE, ECE, ME, CE, Automobile, Chemical, Aerospace, Biotechnology, etc. I recommended my cousin to do B.Tech from LPU itself. Good Placement: Every year more than 500+ companies including national and multinational companies visit LPU for placement. A few of them are Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, etc. In which they are placed. The maximum package available for the Engineering programme is 42 LPA till now. Scholarships: LPU provides very good scholarships to bright students with good academic records, sports, or extracurricular activities achievement. LPU also helps students in the Education loan facility. Faculty: All faculty members are well qualified from IITs, NITs, Iims, and top-ranked universities all over the world. Infrastructure: All the facilities are available on the campus itself, a student does not need to go outside for anything. On the campus, Central Library, Hospital facility is available 24*7 for staff and students, Shopping mall, Indoor Sports Stadium with 3 Olympic size Swimming Pools, Public/Private Sector Banks, ATM, etc. Ranking:
1. For Focus on Affordable and clean energy, LPU has 1st rank in India
2. For Decent Work and Economic Growth, LPU has 2nd rank in India
3. Among the top 80 Universities in India
4. Among the top 90 engineering colleges in India
5. Among the top 50 business management schools in India
6. Among the top 30 Indian pharmacy colleges
7. LPU ranks amongst the Top 200 universities of the world as per the prestigious Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021, which assess universities against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
8. It is among the top 20 Indian organizations that have filed the highest number of patents in India in the last 10 years including IIT Madras. I hope this helps
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Dear Meghna, Both CGC Landran and LPU are doing well and are good institutes. But being alumni of LPU, I can provide you with the details of the hotel management at LPU. One of my friend's brother is also studying there in Bachelor of Hotel Management and Catering Technology BHMCT )
Let me share few points about the Hotel Management programme at LPU :
Curriculum: High academic standards are maintained by offering the curriculum framed in consultation with industry experts. Student exposure: Being a part of a resource-rich University, the students have an advantage of interdisciplinary exposure which is not possible in standalone colleges. University-Hotel: The School also trains its students in the campus hotel named UniHotel of 25 rooms hosting national and international guests where students practice along with the staff. Infrastructure: The School has five modern kitchens with two bakeries. All kitchen and bakery are equipped to enable a student to perform scientifically and to attain their best of learning through most modern gazettes. We have few training restaurants to teach a student about the authentic serving style of food and beverage. We are equipped with one front office laboratory, two housekeeping laboratories, two computer laboratories with 60 computers, and a simulation laboratory for aviation. Placement: 100% placements record with minimum 10% students selected as Management Trainee (Junior Executive level) till date and the placement is with brands like Cox & Kings, Carnival Cruise, JET Airways, Oberoi, Taj, Leela, etc. Package: Six students were offered the package of Rs 8 Lacs by Carnival Cruise in last years. Internship: Industry internships in top national and international five-star hotel brands like The Leela Palace, ITC, Taj, Oberoi, The Grand, Marriott, etc. Intellectual Strength: Faculty members with a holistic blend of academic & industrial exposure. Immersive Mentor-ship Model: Experienced faculty members of the discipline nominated as mentors to eligible students. I hope this helps
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This Programme in Petroleum Engineering is purely centred on integrated approaches of Sciences and Engineering practises in the Oil & Gas Industry. This involves technological undertakings and emphasis of the same in the application of the concepts in Petroleum Exploration, Drilling, Production, Reservoir Engineering, Pipeline Engineering, Refinery Operations, LNG Value Chain, Petrochemicals and Natural Gas Processing. Students in the petroleum engineering programme will be engaged on a holistic journey of the entire value chain of the O&G Industry beginning from the exploration of hydrocarbons to the supply of finished petroleum products to end users. Keeping this in mind, bifurcated options of Upstream, Midstream and Downstream subjects are offered in specialised pathways of this programme. Broad curriculum of Petroleum Engineering offers courses in Reservoir Engineering and Management, Production Engineering Operations, Drilling and Well Completion Practises, Enhanced Oil Recovery. The salient features of this course are :-
Highly qualified faculty Well established laboratories Curriculum as per need of industry faculty members from IITs. Field visits Industrial Training Industry Oriented courses Recent trends input in curriculum Diversified syllabi Structured pathway for Upstream, Midstream and Downstream Economics and Management related courses Interaction with IIT faculty members Interaction with Industrial resources persons Workshops, Webinar& Conferences Department support for International Seminars and Conferences Guest Lectures Industrial visits Executive development programme Community Development Project Guidance for Higher studies Research orientation Experiential Learning Project
Some of the companies where students are working are Indian oil Hindustan Petroleum Reliance petroleumONGC Bharat Petroleum Accenture India HMEL Refinery IOCLP Reliance Petrochemicals Reliance Mfg. Reliance Industries limited HOEL BPRL etc. I hope the information helps.

Zoologist is an adventurous career. The demand for M.Sc. Zoology would never subside in India or worldwide because the boundaries of career options in zoology offered are extensive as mentioned below:
Academic researcher. Academic teacher. Ecologist. Media sector. Scientific writer. Animal nutritionist. Marine biologist. Environment consultants. However, one needs to understand that the scope is tightly integrated with the organisation from where you pursue your course bringing forth the right opportunities to you. Let me take LPU as an example to make you understand how curriculum streams your way to the career. The department's focus is on high-quality in-depth teaching with models, pictures, animations, and videos. Thorough lab training and Dissertations/Projects, Excursion trip, Sophisticated interface for continuous evaluation of students progress. The salient features of the course are :-
Projects for research understanding and its presentation to develop speaking skills. Hands on training. NET oriented curricula to provide better opportunities. Students are exposed to natural environment and diversity of fauna through yearly one Educational Tour. Well-equipped Labs. Co- curricular activities. Participation in National and International Competitions. Placement Services
Exposure to extra curricular activities. Guest lectures, Seminars. The career prospects include :Teaching in College, high schools, Junior/senior research fellow, Research posts in Tissue culture labs, Animal biologists work on administrative posts in museums, zoological gardens, Self Employed (Establishing animal based small industries) etc. I hope the information helps. Thanks.

LPU is known for its academic excellence & innovative teaching pedagogy. It believes in the overall development of the child hence the curriculum is so designed that the students get industrial exposure too which helps them develop and hone their skills. Indeed I will like to answer your questions with three specific points. Considering LPU for B.Tech CSE is:-
1. Assuring me JOB security from my 3rd year of engineering itself. As facts shows LPU has enjoyed a healthy track record of launching its students onto successful careers. Proving this is their alumni who are currently working in 300+ Global and Indian brands. Today, some of the top recruiting companies which have reached LPU campus for placements include Cognizant, Google, Microsoft, Infosys, Dell, Samsung, HCL Technologies, IBM, Tech Mahindra, and Dabur to name a few. And coming to the placements 100% placements for the students who so ever registered for the placements. Final year B Tech Computer Science & Engineering student of Lovely Professional University, Tanya Arora has bagged Rs 42 Lacs job offer from Microsoft. This is the highest job offer received by engineering fresher in the region for the year 2019. Tanya has been offered the role of Software Engineer at Microsoft India R&D Centre in Hyderabad. LPU has record placement of its students consecutively for the last three years.
2. LPU gives the opportunity to opt for study abroad and avail the international exposure
3. LPU has tie ups with GOOGLE, VMWare, CISCO etc. That develops the understanding and polishes skills as per the industry needs. On top of that in LPU there is the benefit of earning valuable scholarships which makes the courses all the more affordable, along with multiple career centric opportunities like industrial exposure, live projects, floor job training and study abroad. All this as a package was a justified and genuine bid. In short LPU was a worthy investment experience. So hence I would rather say LPU is the best option.

An MBA in finance is considered as the most preferred and highly recognised MBA degree. It opens the door to a plethora of opportunities in various sectors like business, banking, investment, stock exchange, and insurance, etc. The fee structure is dependent on the scholarship availed.
1. Scholarship:
Eligibility Qualification/ Qualification previous to Eligibility Qualification
LPUNEST: (LPU National Entrance & Scholarship Test)
Certain National Level Tests (like CAT MAT XAT CMAT or NMATetc. )
2. Financial Aid: Financial Aid Need Based, Financial Aid for Serving/ Retired Defence/CAPF/ Para- Military Personnel and their Dependents, Financial Aid to Persons with Certain Disability
There are varied institutes offering this course and one of them is LPU and the course is MBA (Financial Markets) in tie up with NSE Academy. This Programme in tie-up with NSE offers necessary skills for meeting career aspiration in wealth management, valuation, credit appraisal, trading strategies, risk management and portfolio design. Students can attain managerial positions or Consultant in financial markets and share-trading terminals. Opportunity to pursue 14 industry desired certifications of NSE Academy to enhance employability without any additional cost. The live projects include Live projects Mobikwik, KPMG, SG analytics, Trade the markets. Some companies where students have worked for internship are : Bajaj Allianz, Sharekhan, Tata Consultancy Services, UCO Bank and Yes Bank. Some companies where students are working are Bajaj Finserve (3.48 lac), Eclerx (3.89 lac), WNS (6.72 lac), etc. Also, there are 150+ Faculty including more than 50 Faculty with Ph.D. in various areas
I believe the information is useful to you.