LPU Mittal School of Business promoting Entrepreneurship and StartUp initiatives
Mittal School of Business (MSB) at
Lovely Professional University (LPU) is ranked among top management schools of the country. The curricula of its all MBA programmes are benchmarked with the prestigious institutions in the US, UK and Australia. Accredited by ACBSP (Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs) of the US, LPU School is providing the best of management education to create top human resource for corporate world. It also sends notable entrepreneurs to the society to create coveted jobs for the others through their erudition and acumen. Hon'ble Union Finance Minister of Government of India Arun Jaitley inaugurated startup schools as part of the university, where a student can also experiment with the ideas to take these to next level of entrepreneurial success. LPU education in management makes students as better entrepreneurs and risk takers by broadening their horizon of thinking and triggering up sense of thought processes.
Although LPU management students gain great placement with super global brands; however, the growing trend among innovative students is to be job-creators. So, live entrepreneurship projects, business analysis, new business plans, survey conductions etc form a part of the management curriculum also. A lot of activities are done throughout the year to make entrepreneurship spirit alive among students and they are guided how to register a company, market, or how to make business system more efficient. Annually, the School celebrates one-week entrepreneurship awareness camp where eminent speakers and entrepreneurs from the industry interact with the students. Students are also led to top industries to accord them practical know-how about industry.
In fact, PM Modi's ‘Make in India', ‘Start Up India', & ‘Stand Up India' programs have prepared India for inculcation of strong entrepreneurial spirit among Indian youth. Mittal School of Business at LPU is also keenly acting on these lines, and is exposing its students to be job creators.
LPU School of Agriculture now working on organic working and won research award worth 4.5 crores.
The School of Agriculture at Lovely Professional University (LPU) takes a scientific approach to both agriculture and pedagogy. The curricula here are benchmarked against IOWA State University and PURDUE University of USA. Providing high quality research education for a wide range of agriculture programs, each course includes extensive hands on learning. This is facilitated through crop production on the vast lands of the university, nursery raising for horticulture crops, crop and seed identification lab, soil and water sampling/analysis, soil description/interpretation lab, manure identification lab, and vegetable crop production lab. No effort is spared to develop well informed leaders of the agriculture field.
Once, agriculture relied heavily on harmful chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides, leaving that trend behind, LPU Department of Agriculture has undertaken the production and promotion of organic farming yields, on the campus. Hundreds of its students are involved in this endeavor. They are learning healthy, sustainable farming practices and witnessing how organic agriculture enriches the soil and increases the long-term yield, nutrient value and potency of crops, season by season. LPU Agriculture students are also learning Green House (Poly House) production, Tissue culture, Collection of Plasma, usage of natural resources and compost, and floriculture. Most importantly they are learning to be entrepreneurs who know how to get the best out of the smallest piece of land, and leave it even more enriched.
The School of Agriculture was envisaged and initiated at LPU by its Vice Chancellor Dr. Ramesh Kanwar, who is a Water Resources Engineer and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the European Commission, the Global Environment Facility, and many foreign governments. Dr Kanwar feels, “Our aim is to educate and create awareness among agriculture students, about the benefits of novel agriculture in particular, and the welfare of mankind in general. The kind of research that LPU is undertaking is niche LPU. We want to see our Agriculture School emerge as a center of research excellence, and eventually as one of the top schools in the world.” That the school is making swift strides in this direction, is evident in its recent success. LPU and McGill University, Canada have been given the Rs. 4.5 Crores Indo Canadian Impact Research Project. A project that will benefit our global society.
LPU school of Journalism has already won 'Student Oscars' and much more because of their unique teaching style.
The School of Journalism & Film Production at Lovely Professional University is a pioneer school in the region for the fostering and promotion of creative talent. In a testimony to it's culture of excellence, LPU student Hansjit's Hollywood film projects have been awarded at the 43rd Student Academy Awards held in California (USA), which are commonly known as 'Student Oscars and Emmy Awards'. Another student Ahsif Khan has been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Film Awards' in the student film category. Another team of LPU students has also been awarded at this same national platform for their socially educative Ad-Film. Many other LPU students are excelling at different TV reality shows like ‘Dil Hai Hindustani'on Star Plus and the ‘Voice India' on &TV. LPU Chancellor Mr. Ashok Mittal shares, “The strength of the department is its curriculum, which makes students work hard on both practical and creative aspects. To add a practical finish to academic excellence, our students work with corporates, newspapers, magazines, TV channels and other media platforms.” LPU's different departments have a committed faculty with wide experience at national and international publications, and research exposure. The faculty continuously endeavor to innovate on pedagogy for more effective student learning. With a focus on live projects, industry oriented curriculum, hands on exposure, regular interaction with celebrities and media professionals; the school develops students to meet the dynamic needs of the related industry. Students are trained to be multi-skilled, innovative professionals who can meet and exceed any industry requirement. All of LPU's study programmes provide a blend of rigorous industry oriented practical training in state of the art studios and labs. In addition to the print and electronic media, the students are trained in program production, editing, photography, advertising, public relations and event management, thereby equipping them for a variety of career options in electronic, print or digital media, or as a freelance professionals. In fact, all programmes at LPU School of Journalism are designed to expose students to all the dimensions of Print, Electronic and New Media with a focus on keeping students up to speed with enhanced technical skills in the field. At present, many of its other students are working as Reporters, PR Managers, Content Developers, Radio Jockeys, Film Directors, Editors, Production Managers and Correspondents in various prestigious media houses.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN LPU
Experiential learning is the key to generate best work force from students. It involves active participation of the students making it more interesting and beneficial for them. Lovely Professional University pays great attention to the comprehensive development of the students. The university targets to create a work force that is industry ready and shall in their way contribute to the country's progress. Keeping this in mind LPU encourages experiential learning.
Various projects are undertaken by the students of the Lovely Professional University in every semester that is not part of the conventional learning methods. These projects range from building solar cars to aerodynamic human powered vehicle, racing custom made go karts, working on village development projects in collaboration with the government of Punjab. A family solar car, a driverless car and a smart hybrid car that were designed and built by LPU students were presented in the prestigious Auto-Expo held in New-Delhi in 2014. It was a great achievement in part of the students to share a platform with automobile moguls like BMW, Mercedes, Audi and likes.
The Hospitality students of the university run The UniHotel which is the in-campus hotel that accommodates guests of the university and the parents. The 25 roomed hotel, the kitchen and a restaurant are all manned by the students which gives them real-time experience regarding their subject.
Students of the agriculture department are working on hydroponic and aquaponic projects that enable growing crops without soil and in alternate media like water. The uniqueness of aquaponics is that it not only provides an alternate medium to grow crops it reuses the waste water from aquaculture (fish farming) and so is an environment friendly phenomena.
Knowledge can be obtained from reading and writing but to enhance the arena of one's knowledge working on practical projects is of utmost importance. LPU stresses on this essential side of learning and believes that this would make the students more competent in their fields. Working hands-on in projects makes students develop analytical, decision making and problem solving skills which help them greatly in their future endeavors.
SECURITY AT CAMPUS GOES HI-TECH
Concerns regarding violence in campuses are at all time high these days. Politicized, hate crimes, ragging and various other issues are making news in the traditional university campuses across the country. Some universities have taken a strong stand against such indiscipline. One of those universities is Lovely Professional University. LPU has paid great attention to the safety and security concerns of the students. Parents who send their children to LPU feel extremely secure about their well being and know that their children are in good hands. The university lives up to this faith and takes all necessary measures to ensure this environment. Being the progressive institution that LPU is, it adapts all forms of modern equipments and measures to achieve a peaceful and secure environment for the campus and its students.
The university has a two layered securing system by using the biometric verification along with the smart cards provided as identification cards. Usually institutions provide smart cards without the biometric details and then students tend to share the cards with others which lower the security level. In LPU they can enter and leave the campus as well as the hostels only by punching in the card and then providing the figure print in the turn style gates present in every entry and exit points. This helps the university to keep a record of the movement of every person in the campus.
LPU has more than 400 trained male and female security personnel manning the university campus 24x7. There are also few ex-military men and women working in this force. The university has also installed more than 4000 CCTV cameras all across the campus which is monitored round the clock. The footages are recorded and stored for future reference if needed. This constant surveillance system that is present here helps regulate and avoid any form of indiscipline. The security personnel are trained and updated regularly.
LPU gives a Radio Frequency ID to the faculties driving to work. There are boom barriers that allow vehicles to enter and leave the campus. Those with the RFID can just flash the card to open the boom bars. The rest of the vehicles are allowed to pass only after proper verification and a separate pass is generated for them. This helps to reduce the security issues a lot. The university pays attention to minute details of safety issues. Speed breakers present on the street within the campus also keep a check on the speed of the vehicles plying on the road. Over speeding vehicles are fined to make the roads within LPU safe for everyone.
LPU has its own fire station with fire engines and well trained fire men. There are fire extinguishing equipments installed in every floor of every building within the campus as per the guidelines provided by the fire department.
LPU is a drug free campus. The institution is absolutely intolerant towards this. To maintain a favorable and healthy atmosphere for the students the university takes strict action against those who indulge in such abusive products.
LPU believes in transforming the India through transforming education. The very first step towards achieving this transformation is by providing a healthy, supportive and secure atmosphere for the students to study in. This makes the university one of the safest campus in India and contributes to the progress and well being of the country's youth.
