Kurukshetra University :Admission, Courses, Fees, Ranking

Kurukshetra University, also known as KUK University, is a government-run state university located in Kurukshetra, Haryana. It was established in 1956 by the late Dr. Rajendra Prasad. UGC approved this university and has an NAAC A++ grade. 

In the 2024 NIRF ranking, KUK was ranked 101-150 in the overall category. In the engineering category, it was ranked between 201 and 300. In 2023, THE WEEK ranked KUK 24th in the university category. QS World University Rankings ranked KUK 701st in the Asia category. 

KUK offers various undergraduate, postgraduate, and certificate diploma courses. It also offers distance learning programmes. Some of the popular courses the college offers include B.Tech (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology). The college offers full-time courses as well as distance learning courses. 

KUK has a “Career and Training and Placement Cell” (CTPC) that guides students in getting good on-campus placement. In the past five years KUK has had a great placement record with an 80-90% successful placement record. 

Some of the Top giant recruiters in placement session 2023 include Infosys, TCS, Wipro, and Cognizant in IT sectors, In the banking sectors recruiters were HDFC and Yes Bank. other recruiters were IBM, Adani Group, ICICI, Axis Bank, Vardhman Group, Indian Oil, Hindustan Zinc, Times of India, Thomson Press, Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices, Newgen, NIIT, HCL, Tirupati Life Sciences, Parabolic Drugs. 

Kurukshetra University Highlights

The below table shows some of the state of art facilities offered by Kurukshetra University.

Ranking

With its immense quality of education and latest infrastructure Kurukshetra University is very popular among students and is top ranker of the list formed by top ranking Institutions. For instance, KUK is accredited with A++ grade by NAAC.

The table below shows the ranking of Kurukshetra University by some of the key institutions.

KUK offers various undergraduate, postgraduate, and certificate diploma courses. It also offers distance learning programmes, which make the university more diverse for students. Some of the popular courses the college offers include B.Tech (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology). The college offers full-time courses as well as distance learning courses. 

KUK has also provided specialisation courses in the field of Artificial intelligence and Machine learning in Bachelor of Technology. KUK's fee is less as compared to other private colleges and it also provides distance learning programmes at a very affordable rate. 

Kurukshetra University grants scholarships on merit-based to students in their first year in the undergraduate programme based on their academic qualification exam at the 10+2 level, The Second scholarship programme is based on financially weaker families, and the third and last scholarship programme is based on Scholarships for students with President Medal and National Level Bravery Award.