At Chandigarh University, we believe in the power of a unified yet distinct educational journey, seamlessly extending from our faculty philosophy down to the individual schools within each faculty. Our commitment is to ensure that the pedagogical approaches at the school level not only resonate with the overarching goals of the faculty but are also meticulously adapted to meet the unique demands and aspirations of each school's discipline.
To achieve this, we have crafted specific pedagogies for each school. These strategies are designed to:
Ensure that the teaching and learning environment within each school is in harmony with the faculty's objectives, fostering a cohesive educational experience across levels.
Provide a learning approach that bridges the gap between various programs within the school, promoting interdisciplinary understanding and collaboration.
Address the specific requirements and challenges of each school's discipline, ensuring that the education provided is both relevant and impactful.
These tailored pedagogies are at the heart of our educational model, ensuring that every level of our institution—faculty and school alike—contributes to a holistic and enriching learning experience.
By aligning the educational strategies across schools and faculties, we not only ensure a coherent educational philosophy but also enrich the learning journey by facilitating cross-disciplinary insights and opportunities. This approach allows students to benefit from a broad-based education while gaining deep expertise in their chosen fields.
We are committed to putting students at the heart of the learning experience. Our faculties work to create a nurturing and inclusive classroom atmosphere where students take an active role in their educational journey. This student-driven approach builds confidence and autonomy while preparing future engineers for real-world practice.
We create immersive laboratory environments where students are empowered to tackle authentic engineering challenges. Our faculties guide learners through their own discovery process as they develop critical thinking skills, decompose complex problems, design innovative solutions, and refine their work through iterative testing.
We have industry collaborations to offer students with authentic engineering challenges, enhancing professional skills development, effective communication, and exposure to current industry standards and practices.
We encourage projects that span multiple engineering disciplines to foster systems thinking and holistic understanding of complex technologies, with emphasis on interface design and cross-disciplinary communication.
We integrate cutting-edge research into coursework, enabling students to engage with emerging technologies, experimental methodologies, and publication processes.
We Organize internal and external engineering competitions that simulate real-world constraints like deadlines, budgets, and resource limitations while building teamwork, leadership, and project management skills.
We facilitating engineering projects that address community needs, encouraging students to understand social impact, appropriate technology, and user-centred design principles.
We integrating advanced simulation tools, digital twins, and virtual prototyping environments, with focus on model validation, design analysis, and predictive engineering.
We invite practicing engineers and technical leaders to provide insights on emerging technologies, industry trends, and career pathways in various engineering specializations.
We pair students with senior faculties for personalized guidance on technical skill development, career planning, and professional growth.
Our CSE programs are rooted in hands-on, project-based learning from the very first semester. Modeled after MIT's pedagogy, students solve real-world problems through curated mini-projects, ensuring they build practical skills alongside theoretical foundations.
“Code to Learn, Build to Master.”
In collaboration with global industry partners like Microsoft, SAS, and Quick Heal, we embed Tech Sprints and Live Industry Assignments into coursework. This Stanford-inspired approach bridges classroom concepts with real-time challenges in AI, cybersecurity, and cloud computing.
“Learning is not hypothetical—it’s happening live.”
Borrowed from the likes of Carnegie Mellon and Stanford d.school, our Studio-Based Learning environments encourage students to ideate, prototype, and iterate solutions in a collaborative space—perfect for UI/UX, IoT, and smart system projects.
“Think. Design. Disrupt.”
Modeled on global AI labs, our classrooms double as Living Research Labs, where students engage in faculty-led, publication-worthy projects as part of their coursework. This approach nurtures deep tech expertise and research orientation early in the degree.
“Where classrooms become launchpads for AI breakthroughs.”
Inspired by Harvard and NUS, we empower top-performing students as Tech Teaching Fellows to co-conduct coding clinics, hackathons, and peer bootcamps—amplifying learning through peer-to-peer mentoring and leadership.
“When students teach, everyone learns deeper.”
Teaching is aligned with well-defined Course Outcomes (COs) and Program Outcomes (POs).
Combination of classroom teaching, MOOCs (NPTEL, Coursera) and flipped classrooms.
Sessions by tech leaders, and domain experts to bridge the industry-academia gap.
Active programming clubs, open-source communities, and peer-to-peer learning sessions.
Emphasis on practical implementation of programming, AI, and data science concepts. In addition to lab sessions, live demos, and guided mini-projects to reinforce theoretical knowledge.
Capstone projects, hackathons, internships, and prototype development as part of core learning. Exposure to real-world problems through industrial case studies and applications based projects.
Teaching with tools like GitHub, VS Code, Python, R etc.
Collaborative learning through code reviews and team-based coding tasks. Faculty mentored groups for academic, technical, and career support.
Each student assigned a faculty mentor for career support, certifications, and placements.
Guest lectures, webinars, tech talks, and workshops by industry professionals.
Mandatory internships and tech industry exposure every academic year.
Encouraging publication, patent filing, and participation in hackathons and ideathons.
Encourages focused learning through real-life business problems using research, observation, and analytical skills for deeper understanding.
Involves direct hands-on engagement with tasks to acquire meaningful and practical learning experience.
AI enablement enhances learning speed and decision-making on account of intelligent systems that adapt to individual needs of learners.
Prepares learners to operate across multiple domains, and helps in acquiring an inclusive approach.
Flipped classroom models create efficient, and engaging learning experiences.
Delivers customized educational content tailored to individual strengths and goals for meaningful career development.
Enhancing analytical skills through workshops focused on critical thinking, logic, and reasoning, emphasizing cognitive biases, problem-solving, and decision-making psychology.
Organizing field trips to museums, historical sites, and cultural events to deepen understanding of diverse cultures and societies, while examining cultural psychology, stereotypes, and group behavior.
Offering courses and studios for students to explore creative writing, journalism, and digital media production, integrating storytelling psychology, media influence, and narrative therapy techniques.
Hosting seminars and discussions on social justice issues, ethical dilemmas, and the role of humanities in addressing societal challenges, with a focus on moral psychology, empathy, and ethical decision-making.
Encouraging projects that span multiple disciplines within the humanities to foster a broad, holistic understanding of human culture and society, with a focus on social psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral studies.
Promoting critical thinking, dialogue, and analytical questioning through the Socratic method in classroom interactions, fostering reflective thinking and metacognition.
Incorporating research projects into coursework, allowing students to explore research methods, experimental design, and data analysis.
Designing group projects, peer teaching, and cooperative learning exercises, exploring group dynamics, leadership styles, and conflict resolution from a psychological perspective.
Facilitating community-based projects and service learning, encouraging students to understand social issues through psychological theories like social responsibility, altruism, and prejudice reduction.
Integrating digital tools, AI, and multimedia technology, with a focus on understanding digital behavior, media psychology, and the psychology of virtual interactions.
Inviting psychologists, therapists, and behavioral scientists to provide diverse perspectives on human behavior, mental health, and emotional intelligence.
Providing one-on-one mentoring, with an emphasis on positive psychology, self-awareness, and emotional resilience.
Incorporating global case studies, cross-cultural discussions, and comparative analysis, exploring cultural psychology, identity, and acculturation.
Designing courses that integrate humanities with psychology, data analytics, cognitive science, and behavioral economics.
Organizing workshops and awareness sessions on mental health, emotional regulation, stress management, and coping strategies.
Hosting sessions on self-awareness, self-compassion, growth mindset, and resilience, based on positive psychology principles.
Training students in effective communication skills, including active listening, non-verbal communication, empathy, and assertiveness.
By analysing actual court decisions and situations, case method teaching helps students understand legal concepts.
Through inquiry and discussion, dialogic teaching involves students and promotes deeper comprehension, critical thinking, and active engagement in legal discussions.
Students can apply their theoretical knowledge, hone their practical skills, and serve communities in legal settings while being professionally supervised through clinical legal education, which gives them practical experience through actual or simulated legal work.
By examining and resolving complex legal issues cooperatively, problem-based learning exposes students to real-world legal scenarios and fosters independent research, critical thinking, and practical problem-solving skills.
Through digital resources like legal databases, online courses, and artificial intelligence (AI) simulations, the use of technology in legal studies improves learning and promotes research abilities, accessibility, and readiness for contemporary legal practice.
Integrating law with other disciplines through interdisciplinary teaching broadens students' perspectives and aids in their understanding of legal issues in technological, social, and economic contexts.
Internships connect academic learning with practical legal practice and professional skill development by placing students in law firms or courts.
At Chandigarh University Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, the School of Applied Sciences emphasizes a holistic educational approach where students actively engage in laboratory experiments to develop essential technical skills, apply critical thinking to analyze data and solve real-world problems and connect their learning to meaningful applications. Here are some key aspects of our teaching approach:
This approach lets students be actively involved in setting goals, design thinking, making decisions, and engaging in self-directed learning, with the faculty acting as a facilitator of advanced technology and knowledge rather than a traditional lecturer. This fosters critical thinking, self-motivation, and a deeper understanding of their subject domain.
It encourages students to explore and solve real-world problems through experimental investigations. This leads students to identify challenges, formulate hypotheses, and design experiments to play with their ideas.
Simulation-Based Learning involves use of virtual tools, software, or real-life scenarios to replicate complex biological processes and environments, allowing students to practice and experiment in a controlled set up. This approach enables students to engage with realistic situations avoiding the need of costly or potentially hazardous materials in a safe, and low-risk environment.
It connects students with their domain industries to solve real-world challenges through research and development. Students work on current issues like optimizing microbial production processes, designing diagnostic tools, gaining hands-on experience or exposure to industry practices while applying academic knowledge in to practices.
It involves integrating concepts from various basic and applied biological science areas to solve complex biotechnological problems. It enables students to collaborate across disciplines developing innovative solutions by enhancing their ability to think broadly and apply knowledge in diverse contexts.
We embed the latest scientific advancements directly into the syllabus, allowing students to explore various emerging technologies, experimental designs, and real-world discovery workflows in their respective fields.
We host dynamic competitions engaging students tackle real-world challenges under practical constraints like time limits, budgets, and limited resources. By this we encourage teamwork, leadership, critical thinking and project planning abilities.
We engage students in community-based biotech projects that perfectly blend science with social responsibility. This further develops a deeper understanding of the societal impact of biotechnology through hands-on, purpose-driven work by concrete application of user-centered design, appropriate technology, and sustainable solutions.
This provides students valuable exposure to real-world applications of their classroom theories. Visiting pharmaceutical plants, research labs, forensic labs, and biotech industries helps them to understand pilot-scale processings, quality control, and advanced techniques. These experiences bridge the gap between theory and practices, enhance technical skills, and inspire future career paths.
External and Internal Mentorship programs in Biotechnology, Forensic Sciences & Data Science connect students with experienced professionals, researchers, or industry experts to develop their academic career. It offers personalized support in areas such as research projects, skill-building, internships, and navigating career paths in biotech, forensic science and data sciences. Students become future ready through activities like one-to-one interactions, students gain insights into current industry trends, ethical practices, and innovation.
We, at Chandigarh University, are dedicated to bringing world-class pharmaceutical education in a creative, student-centered, and industry-focused manner. According to the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) guidelines, our Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) programme is designed to deliver academic excellence, professional competence, and global readiness.
Chandigarh University adopts the Outcome-Based Education model to shift the focus from the teaching inputs to measurable learning outcomes:
Well-defined Program Outcomes (POs), Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs), and Course Outcomes (COs) are defined for every subject.
Learning outcomes are phrased in the language of Bloom's Taxonomy in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.
We establish a student-centered learning environment that fosters curiosity, engagement, and critical thinking:
Active learning paradigms include Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Flipped Classrooms, Case Studies, Think-Pair-Share, Peer Teaching, and Collaborative Discussions.
They are also encouraged to take charge of learning with mentoring and active class discussions.
Our curriculum allows for balanced integration of theory with practical applications:
Practical experience is complemented by facilities like Model Pharmacy, Simulations of Community Pharmacy, and Hospital and Industrial Training.
Students execute mini-projects, live assignments, and capstone projects to apply learning to real-world contexts.
To support the teaching-learning process, we employ Information and Communication Technology (ICT) intensively:
Smart classrooms, e-content, virtual labs, and AI-based simulations are a part of everyday teaching.
They can utilize top-of-the-line digital platforms such as SWAYAM, NPTEL, and LMS tools such as Moodle and Google Classroom.
Webinars, video lectures, and computer graphics also augment concept comprehension.
We have a strong system of formative and summative assessments to ascertain ongoing academic progress:
Internal evaluations include unit tests, assignments, viva-voce, seminars, and presentations.
Use of well-defined rubrics and measurement tools facilitates objectivity, transparency, and monitoring of student progress.
Our curriculum is skill-building and experiential learning based on PCI standards:
Practical skills include drug compounding, dispensing, prescription review, pharmaceutical calculation, and instrumental methods (e.g., HPLC, UV, FTIR).
Hospital postings, industrial internships, and community pharmacy experiences allow students to derive experiential knowledge.
We promote inter-disciplinary contact and co-operation at Chandigarh University:
Common learning modules and projects are done with departments such as Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics, Management, Law, and Languages.
Industry partnerships, MoUs, and visiting lectures establish a robust industry-academia interface.
Students are advantaged by exposure to sponsored labs and collaborative research projects.
Apart from the School of Law, Chandigarh University also provides a Legal Lab with the mission to enhance the skillset of students in:
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), patent registration, and legal documents
Real-time case study analysis of pharma regulations and compliance
Understanding the regulatory framework governing the pharma sector by way of specialist workshops and conferences
Our lecturers are continuously up skilled by:
Faculty Development Programs (FDPs), AICTE-ATAL workshops, and MOOCs
They also serve as mentors by giving students’ academic as well as personal advice to create balanced students.
We instill research orientation in undergraduate students by:
Research Methodology Workshops and participation in student research forum
Incentives for IPR awareness, scientific ownership, and participation in national conferences
Establishment of an Institutional Research Committee to monitor student research projects
Chandigarh University integrates professional, legal, and ethical modules in the B.Pharm course:
Pharmacy ethics, regulatory compliance, and professional conduct courses
We possess a range of value-added and soft skills training courses to prepare students for different roles:
Communication skills, life skills, emotional intelligence, and leadership development
Specific focus on employability skills development, innovation, and entrepreneurship
There is a strict feedback system that ensures quality and relevance in our academic provision: The routine inputs are also derived from students, alumni, peer scholars, and industry professionals.
We are completely compliant with PCI standards and quality standards: Compliance with the implied faculty-student ratio, infrastructure needs, and laboratory needs Implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for academic as well as laboratory procedures to maintain consistency and quality
At Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, the School of Basic Sciences is dedicated to nurturing scientific inquiry and critical thinking through innovative teaching practices across the domains of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Our goal is to ignite curiosity, build a strong foundational understanding, and inspire students to contribute to cutting- edge scientific advancements.
Our laboratories are not just for routine experiments but are designed as centers of discovery:
Undergraduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to participate in mini-research projects involving:
This approach helps in developing analytical skills and prepares students for national-level research opportunities.
We introduce interdisciplinary modules linking:
Collaborations with industries ensure that our curriculum stays aligned with real-world demands.
We integrate technology for immersive learning:
We train students to:
Each student is assigned a mentor to guide them in:
Students participate in science outreach programs and rural education drives to spread scientific literacy and foster curiosity in school children.
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