Shiv Nadar University

Shiv Nadar University is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, research-focused, and student-centric University offering a full range of academic programs at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level. With state-of-the-art infrastructure, the University comprises of academic wings, sophisticated labs, international standard sports facilities, amphitheaters, auditorium, conference rooms and smart classrooms. The University’s goal is to become internationally recognized for the quality of its research and creative endeavors and their applicability to improving quality of life, generating new insights and expanding the boundaries of human knowledge creativity. Committed to excellence in teaching, research and service, the University aims to serve the higher education needs of India and the world beyond.

An Indian campus that invites the World - Shiv Nadar University is built on a sprawling campus, spread over 286 acres located in a rapidly transforming rural–urban landscape in the National Capital Region. Aiming to become a center for creation and dissemination of new forms of knowledge and human creativity, the campus is an ecosystem of discovery with plethora of living, thriving ecological diversity. Australian egrets to Lesser Whistling teals the enthralling beauty of the campus never fades as the wide horizon captures the rays of rising sun every day.

Our vision is to empower individuals and communities to realize and exercise universal freedom through acquisition and application of knowledge by:

• Dedicating to the development, organization, preservation, dissemination, and application of knowledge in a wide range of fields of study.
• Committing to excellence in teaching, discovery & innovation, scholarship, and service to expand the scope of human understanding, and contributing to the betterment of the world.
• Pledging to serve the higher education needs of State of Uttar Pradesh, India, and the global community.

Our mission is to become a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, research-focused, and student-centric university aimed at becoming a leading international institution of higher learning by:

• Developing and educating the path-shapers of tomorrow, who can shoulder the challenges of globally responsible, and ethical leadership in the 21st Century.
• Supporting research, scholarly, and creative endeavors that contribute to the creation of new knowledge at the frontiers of specialized areas as well as at the interface of diverse disciplines.
• Evolving research and teaching programs that tackle the most pressing problems of the State of Uttar Pradesh, India, and the global community.

The Shiv Nadar University is envisaged to be an enduring global center of excellence in higher education, which is learner-centric, and anchored in research & innovation, driven by outstanding faculty, and supported by national & international academic partnerships.

After a remarkable beginning in 2011, and a phenomenal growth in the first few years, the University has now entered a phase of consolidation. It can now boast of a truly multidisciplinary character, and in this setting, the academic programs have started flourishing on progressive interdisciplinarity and research-led learning.

The University has also generated tremendous momentum for advancement on an accelerated path. There are no short-cuts to excellence - it is the collective effort of faculty, administrative staff, students and our partners that will get us closer to achieving our dream.

Shiv Nadar University is an institution of higher learning that works to seamlessly integrate research thinking into the everyday process of teaching-learning. We are a student centric university. Shiv Nadar curriculum has been so designed as to take advantage of the multidisciplinary nature of the university to expose our students to ideas stemming from various schools in the process the degree programs. We believe in enriching and bringing out the potential of the logic side and the creative side of a human being through a holistic curriculum.

Shiv Nadar University is a national university dedicated to solving problems of national need and we certainly want our students to be exposed to and understand what India needs and develop the intellectual expertise to provide solutions. We have created an interdisciplinary graduate program on water science and policy that has been hailed as so novel and unique that it has drawn monetary support from a Canadian agency. Shiv Nadar University has MOUs with security and foreign affairs think tanks. Shiv Nadar faculty have been doing remarkable research and have already discovered a compound to reduce mercury poisoning. By the way, we have invested hundreds of crores in labs since we believe in experiential learning.

We want our students to be leaders in global companies and be solving global issues; we have signed MOUs with many prestigious universities in Europe, China, Australia and the U.S. Our students have already been going to China and are going to Australia, Canada and Italy on semester study abroad programs. We are creating more and more opportunities but with caution to make sure that the academics at those institutions are on par with ours.