ITM University Gurgaon; since its inception as ITM in 1996 and as ITMU in 2010 has been
attracting students as one of their preferred destination for admission. Its Vision
statement explicitly states to become a preferred destination. To support the Vision,
ITMU has established a unique campus where ‘quality’ is the central theme of
all its endeavours and that is its key differentiator. This is reflected in all
of its facilities; infrastructure; processes; policies; structure, faculty and
leadership. Some of these differentiators are listed as follows:
1. ITMU Gurgaon has
an excellent locational advantage as it is located in HUDA Colony giving an
easy access to students. It is in the heart of industrial and cultural hub of
Haryana; just 7 kms from International Airport of Delhi. This locational
advantage facilitates easy connectivity with air; road and metro. The campus is
very safe-particularly for its girl students and has not seen any untoward
incident since inception. This easy to reach and safe campus environment is a
key differentiator.
2. The physical
infrastructure is World-Class. Its lush green lawns have been bagging first
prize from HUDA for 12 years in a row. The moment one enters the campus; its
physical ambience and cleanliness looks impressive and is a first manifestation
of the quality focus in the University. Its classrooms; library, wash-rooms; Wi-Fi,
air-conditioned campus with dedicated DG-set to ensure continuous power supply
and internet connectivity with 60mbps band-width provide the necessary
pre-requisite to deliver a quality education.
3. In addition to
physical infrastructure, ITMU Gurgaon has a set of very clear Vision, Mission
and Core Values that focus on academic excellence. It has put in place
transparent; efficient and enabling standard operating policies and procedures
in place for smooth functioning of teaching-learning and evaluation processes.
Annual Academic calendar is set-up by Academic Council and meticulously
followed with zero tolerance on deviations. Classes are held on schedules and
any deviation from it is captured; resolved and prevented in future. Class
rooms are equipped to facilitate technology-enabled education with LMS
(Learning Management Systems) and ERP. Education technology enabled teaching
pedagogy is a rule rather than exception for effectiveness.
4. ITMU Gurgaon has
focused on attracting, retaining and motivating quality faculty. Some of the
faculty members have had excellent academic credentials at IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur
and other similar places. They are hired on merit and are mentored by a group
of role-model faculty mentors. ITMU Gurgaon is perhaps a unique institution to assign
faculty mentors to each of its young faculty in order to nurture and develop
them. Its Academic Advisory Board comprises of almost ‘who’s who’ of academic
and industry leaders and acts as a think-tank and as direction indicator to
navigate the university in the direction of academic excellence.
5. All academic
processes and policies at ITMU, Gurgaon are student-centric and quality driven
such as: continuous evaluation; practical orientation, summer-internship; compulsory
on-line student feedback on each course, relative grading, rationalized credit
structure with optimal mix of core and elective subjects intended to nurture students
holistically and to develop them academically as well as in terms of their
personality profile.
6. University has a
number of honorary distinguished adjunct/research professors from India and
abroad who periodically visit to mentor faculty and students and show research
directions. It has associated with it more than 15 fellows of national
academies of science and engineering and has five Bhatnagar awardee scientists
in this capacity. This has helped in creating a good research ambience and
set-up a Central Research Facility and Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Fund to
encourage research and innovation.
7. ITMU’s faculty performance
appraisal aims as developing and nurturing faculty quality. A quality faculty
in conjunction with excellent quality infrastructure is a key enabler to
academic excellence. The faculty performance appraisal is objective, holistic, participative
and aims at rewarding faculty merit in addition to giving best teacher awards;
best research awards etc.
8. Admission
process of ITMU Gurgaon is transparent and merit driven and has proved
effective year after year in filling its seats with good selectivity ratios.
The fee structure is transparent and is aimed at offering quality education
that is affordable; it also gives scholarships to meritorious students as well
as to those with modest means to facilitate quality education to such students.
9. High placements
among eligible students are another key differentiator here. School of
Professional Attachment (SPA) facilitates visit of companies for campus
placement and also develop students for high employability. Very Good
companies-including from core sectors visit ITMU, Gurgaon year after year and
some of our alumni have achieved high levels of success in the world of work.
SPA continues its efforts till all eligible students are placed even after
graduation.
10. ITMU Gurgaon has
excellent library with e-books and e-journals and has linkages with IIT Delhi
for virtual laboratory in some departments and organizes invited lectures by
reputed academics from India and abroad to supplement the teaching–learning
process, in addition to its dedicated quality faculty in the regular courses.
In conclusion; it can be seen that ITMU Gurgaon
offers a set of distinct advantages in studying at its premises because it has
a student-centric, learning-driven academic processes with quality faculty and
excellent, clean and green campus environment. Quality, transparency, safe and
clean environment with focus on employability at an excellent location are some
of its USP’s that attract students to study at ITMU, Gurgaon.
Written By:
Prof. Prem Vrat,
Pro-Chancellor;
Professor of Eminence and Chief Mentor
ITM University
Gurgaon
Written By:
Prof. Prem Vrat,
Pro-Chancellor;
Professor of Eminence and Chief Mentor
ITM University
Gurgaon
