Workshops at Lovely Professional University

3 mins readUpdated on Jun 18, 2022 19:43 IST

Lovely Professional University has always been ahead in imparting knowledge and skill to students and teachers. 

                            

Lovely Professional University is one of the world's largest universities. In achieving this milestone, training and development played a crucial role. Be it the training and development of its students through various seminars, workshops, etc. or Faculty Development Programs for the teachers and other non-teaching staff, Lovely Professional University has always been ahead in imparting knowledge and skill to students and teachers. 

Following are a few Faculty Development Programs conducted by the University in the last few months:

1. Guru Dakshata (Faculty Induction Program): The focus of this program was to give hands-on practice to the faculty on various e-learning platforms, the criticality of developing e-content for e-learning, and to draw their attention towards qualitative research, statistical analysis and life skills.

2. National Workshop On Research Methodology And Data Analysis Using 'SPSS': This workshop was conducted for students, faculty members from LPU as well as from various other institutions and research scholars. The workshop was a great success owing to the high demand for learning SPSS by the research scholars.

Q:   What is LPU famous for?

A:

LPU is famous for its infrastructure and the various facilities offered by the university. LPU faculty are experienced and are one of the best faculty in India. The accepted entrance exams at LPU are LPU NEST,   JEE Main, and CUET. Candidates must keep a check on the LPU NEST application form. Apply as soon as the LPU NEST dates are released. After that give the exam and wait for the LPU NEST result. Take part in the LPUNEST counselling. If selected, confirm the admission as soon as possible because the seats are limited for this famous university.

Q:   Is LPU good for MBA?

A:

LPU has been ranked at 38 under 'Management' category in NIRF 2024 Rankings. MBA is one of the recognised courses of LPU. After completing course from the university, students are open to multiple placement opportunities. Find below the key highlights for LPU Placements 2023:

Particulars

Statistics (2023)

MBA average package

INR 7 LPA

Note: In the absence of course-specific data, generic placement data is taken.

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Q:   Is LPU good for BTech?

A:

BTech is one of the top courses of LPU. The Engineering course of LPU has been ranked by multiple ranking bodies. In NIRF 2023 rankings, LPU was ranked at 50 under the 'Engineering' category. Apart from NIRF, other ranking bodies have also ranked LPU. Check the details below:

Ranking BodyRank
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 202323 (overall)
6 In Engineering
Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 202227
Times Higher Education Emerging Economics University Rankings 20225

Check other Top BTech Colleges in India

3. Refresher Course On Research Methodology and Data Analysis: The main focus was on various types of technologies and methods to be used for various types of research and various ways to analyse the data. It is basically for experienced people who have some idea about research.

4. FDP On High Impact Teaching Skills By Dale Carnegie And Associates, Inc: In this faculty development program, it was discussed to make the teaching effective by using various advanced techniques and real-life examples. 

5. MISO-A Japanese Vegetarian Cooking Workshop: This workshop proved to be a boon for those who were interested in Japanese cuisine.

6. National Case Writing Workshop: Though various institutions conduct workshops, LPU is famous for doing it in a different way. The resource person in this workshop is generally someone famous. Most of the time real-life company cases are discussed in this type of case writing workshop. It can also be taken as an effective brainstorming session.

Q:   Is LPU good for a BCA?

A:
  • The BCA at LPU is designed to develop skills for building efficient and resource-optimised software/website/cloud/mobile applications. The eligibility for the course is pass with 50% aggregate marks in Class 12 (with English or equivalent). LPU School of Computer Application is ranked among the top four Computer Applications Institutes of North India by NASSCOM. Industry certifications, MOOCs, Hackathons / Co-curricular Competitive events, Workshops, Guest lectures, Educational Trips, Live projects, Incubation projects, Community projects, projects with NGOs, etc. Are an integral part of the curriculum.
  • BCA graduates have a good scope in jobs as a Web Developer, Web Designer, Network Administrator, System Manager, Computer mer, Software Developer, Software Tester, etc. Depending on the skills you acquire during your BCA. Various companies, organizations, and MNCs offer the above-mentioned jobs to BCA candidates. Provide an introduction to the fundamentals of Information Technology, Imparts knowledge of networks tools and techniques by understanding various existing wired and wireless networking models and protocols.
  • The course includes Open Systems Interconnection communication model, local area networks, bridges, routers, and gateways, addressing, and local and remote procedures. Simulating the physical layer basics, network protocol algorithms, error handling, flow control, multihop routing network reliability, timing, advanced network protocols, and infrastructure, applications of high-performance networks.
  • Computer architecture is a set of rules and methods that describe the functionality, organisation, and implementation imparting knowledge with a systematic way to create, retrieve, update and manage data. This course would examine the concepts and principles of DBMS, database design, data modeling, database management, data & query optimisation, and database implementation. Provides skill in the system software for creating and managing database learning and how mers create, retrieve, update and manage data. It provides knowledge of relational database models, manipulating data with an interactive query language (SQL), and database ming.
  • The highest salary offered was INR 19.25 LPA and the average package was INR 3.1 LPA.

Q:   Is LPU good for MCA?

A:

MCA is one of the top courses of LPU. LPU School of Computer Application is ranked among the top four Computer Applications Institutes of North India by NASSCOM. After completion MCA from LPU, students are open to plethora of jobs. Check below the job profiles available after completing MCA from LPU:

  • App Developer
  • Database Engineer
  • Manual Tester
  • Hardware Engineer
  • Ethical Hacker
  • Business Analyst

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Q:   Is LPU good for BBA programme?

A:
Yes, LPU is best for BBA course. LPU's business school is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and programme (ACBSP). Recently Ministry of Human Resource Government of India Ranked Lovely Professional University No. 2 in India in Management. Every year Around 550+ companies visit every year for such activities and campus-recruitment of students from LPU. Companies likes Colgate Palmolive, Hindustan Unilever, Godrej Consumer, SAP Labs, Asian Paints, Bajaj Allianz, Federal Bank, Moodys Analytics, Blue Star, Zomato, Berger Paints, Marico etc.

Q:   Is PhD from LPU valid?

A:

Yes, PhD degree from LPU is valid. The university provides a part-time and a full-time PhD in various specialisations. LPU's PhD programme is recognised by UGC and NAAC. The university is also ranked by various renowned ranking agencies like NIRF, THE, AIIA, etc. Interested candidates can visit the university's official website to apply or enquire about the programme. The university shortlists applicants for interview based on their score in the LPUNEST (PhD) entrance examination conducted by the university. The final selection for admission in PhD will be based on the performance in entrance test (70% weightage) and Interview (30% weightage), subject to scoring minimum marks in the interview.

Q:   Is CAT compulsory for MBA in LPU?

A:

CAT is one of the accepting exams for LPU admission. LPU conducts LPUNEST Lovely Professional University National Entrance and Scholarship Test for admission to MBA course. It is conducted in online mode every year. The test acts as an Entrance Test as well as Scholarship Test. The amount of scholarship is determined by the marks and rank obtained by candidates in the exam. LPUNEST is a 2.5 hours exam including 125 questions. Apart from LPUNEST, the university also accepts MAT, XAT and other Management entrance exam scores for admission. The shortlisted candidates are further called for GDPI round. 

7. Short Term Course On Research Methodology: It is as same as what I have shared in point number three above the only difference is that this particular workshop is for a very duration of 3 days. Here both freshers and experienced candidates can participate.

8. Workshop for making the teaching interactive, engaging, and innovative for students.

9. Workshop On Digital Marketing: LPU has very experienced and talented faculty in the area of digital marketing. The resource persons available at LPU are experts in various domains of digital marketing. A large number of students not only from LPU but from outside attended this workshop. As a result, some of them started their youtube channels and they are running them successfully. 

10. Workshop On Gamification: Simulation games hahaveeen an important part of students’ class assignments. So, faculty should be well versed with the advanced technology and software to be used for simulation games. For the same purpose, the university has taken help from freelancers who have expertise in this field. These freelancers have taught the faculty members and accordingly faculty members have shared the same knowledge with the students. 

11. Workshop on Advanced Research Methodology: This particular workshop was conducted for those who are comfortable with the basics of research methodology and seek some advanced knowledge in the research area.

12. Workshop on Mental Health: This was the workshop conducted to know the status of mental health of a particular school. It was also helpful in counselling people to live a happy and satisfying life. 

Workshops at Lovely Professional University are not only restricted to students and teachers. LPU also maintains a Corporate Pathshala to ensure the effective growth and development of businesses and professionals. Corporate Patshala aims at providing customised solutions to its clients.

Following is the list of some of the clients of Corporate Pathshala of LPU:

  1. UCO bank
  2. Indian Oil Corporation
  3. Divine Welness centre, Jalandhar
  4. F C Sondhi and Co. Jalandhar
  5. Midland Microfin Ltd.
  6. IDBI Bank
  7. Redington India Ltd.

 

About The Author

Amit Kumar Sharma is an Assistant Professor at Lovely Professional University. With ten years of experience in teaching organisational behaviour and HRM, he has also conducted 13 faculty development programs at the school level and two management development programs at the industry level.

Note: The views expressed in this article are solely the author’s own and do not reflect/represent those of Shiksha.

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