Shoolini University

Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences is a private university in India located in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh. It is run under the aegis of Foundation of Life Sciences and Business Management.

The university has been able to bag research projects from various government bodies like DST, ICMR, DRDO, DAE, MNRE ^[1]

History

Shoolini University established in 2009 as India's first Biotechnology University and is the youngest to find a place among the 100 universities.^[2] It is fully recognized by the University Grants Commission(UGC), Government of Himachal Pradesh and other Government bodies Like Pharmacy Council of India(PCI).^[3]^[4] The university has a research driven model and offers programmes in Biotechnology, Management Sciences ,Liberal Arts, Engineering, Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Shoolini University appeared in the ‘India Rankings 2016’ released on 4 April 2016 by the HRD Ministry (Govt. Of India) in 66th position from a total of 236 universities.^[5] It also competed in the pharmacy ranking and its School of Pharmacy was ranked 19th in the country.^[2]

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Activities

Convocation

Convocation

Tieups and Associations

The university is continuously looking to expand its activities with various reputed international and National universities and organisations. The university has signed Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with several. Some of them are:

University of Arkansas, United States ^[6]
Seoul National University
Chung Yuan Christian University
Bukovinian State Medical University, Ukraine ^[7]
Sprott Shaw College, Canada^[8]^[9]
Ulster University^[10]
Lanzhou University, China
University of Suwon, South Korea ^[11]
Gachon University, South Korea^[12]
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea ^[13]

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Guru Series of Lecture

Named after the Paramahansa Yogananda, the university has initiated a novel lecture series under the banner of 'Guru Series of Lectures'. Under this, luminaries from various fields are called to the institution for addressing the students and faculty on topics of their interest. Some of the speakers who have visited the university under this lecture series are

Lt Gen BS Jaswal (retd.)
Major General Ajay Chaturvedi (retd)
Chetan Bhagat, author
Prof RC Sobti, former Vice Chancellor Panjab University
Dr Robert Huber, Nobel Laureate
Lt Gen KJ Singh, GOC in Chief Western Command
Anandmurti Gurumaa
Dr Kiran Bedi, India first woman IPS Officer
Prof Arundeep Singh Ahluwalia, Renowned scientist
Lt. Gen Kamal Davar (retd)
Prof Bhupinder Singh Bhoop
Dr BS Aulakh
Judhajit Das, HR head ICICI Group
Shinjini Kumar, CEO PAYTM Payments Bank
Yuji Nishikawa, India Liaison Officer, JST
Niranjan Bilgi, renowned scientist
MC Jose, Khinji Ramdass LLC
Swami Samaranananda Giri
Vivek Atray

Guru Series lecture

Robert Huber

Campus

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Yogananda library

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Shoolini Gymnasiumm

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