Dear Students,
A very happy new year 2015 !
As the year comes to an end, Galgotias continues its 8-decade-old legacy to grow and become one of India’s premier quality
education group. The year 2014 has been an accomplishing and a proud one for all students, faculty, staff and management
and we would like to share with you some of the highlights of the achievements and initiatives of the previous year:
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PLACEMENTS AND RECRUITMENTS:
Galgotias has once again been able to achieve outstanding placements in the year 2014 with some of the top companies
visiting our campuses like Infosys, Cognizant , Wipro which recruit from only very selected quality driven campuses across
india , taking a huge number of students in ROUND-1 itself of the in-campus placement drive held at our campuses
Galgotias placements hit a high of 70% Placements for its 2015 batch in first slot of placement session.
Galgotias set a record for itself in campus recruitment during the placement season for the class of 2014-15. The highlight of
the placement season was that 1305 offers were given to the students in first week of placement and 85% of Computer Science
students were placed.
In this placement session the major selections are, Cognizant (583 students), Infosys (338 students) followed by Wipro
Technologies (228 students) and Tech Mahindra (77 students).In continuation to this, 35 companies have also been finalized
for the next month and many more are in pipeline. This is to mention that 120 companies visited last year for the placement of
2014 batch and Galgotias hopes high to cross the number in 2015.
Placement season of 2015 batch will continue till July 2015. Many Galgotias received multiple job offers in several companies
which is indeed a proud moment for all of us. We congratulate all students and wish them a wonderful career ahead!
Galgotias has been able to achieve MoUs with several leading companies like Infosys, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy Services,
Accenture, Wipro, L&T, Ericsson, Capgemini etc for student development and placements and many more are in the pipeline.
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GALGOTIANS TOPPING UPTU ONCE AGAIN:
We were proud to see that with hard work and dedication , our students have topped the Uttar Pradesh technical university
and we are also extremely proud to see that 7 ( seven) students have topped the Uttar Pradesh technical university in
Electronics and Instrumentation Branch which is the highest by any college in Uttar Pradesh.
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Saumya Pathak has secured the 1st position by securing 87.60 % marks in Electronics and Instrumentation (EI)
Deepti Chaudhary has secured the 3rd position by securing 86.34%
Vipin Yadav has secured 3rd position in Information Technology (IT)
Abhishek Chaudhary has secured 5th Position
Bhavya chauhan has secured 6th Position
Abhishek Shukla has secured 14th Position
Himanshu Shukla has secured 15th position
Siraj Alam has secured 16th position
On behalf of the Management, faculty, staff and students we congratulate all the students for having secured top positions in
academics! We are truly proud of each one of you.
Galgotias received numerous Awards in the year 2014 , Some of them were as follows :
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Award By Shri Narayana Murthi : We were delighted to receive the Prestigious DQ Award for Excellence in
Academics and placements by Mr N R Narayana Murthi , Co-founder Infosys at a glittering awards ceremony held in
Bangalore on 24 November 2014.
Award by Shri Narendra Modi : We were also honored by Shri Narendra Modiji for getting the prestigious award for
Academics and Top placements.
Award by Hon’Ble Home Minister of India : We were also proud to receive the award from the Hon’ble Rajnath
Singh ji for excellence in providing quality education and contribution in the MAKE IN INDIA campaign at vigyan
bhavan on 24th December 2014.
Galgotias was also ranked amongst the top engineering institutes of India by the prestigious India Today’s Mail
today survey 2014.
We also had several dignitaries and guests who visited our campus in 2014 and enlightened our students such as :
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Hon’ble Shivakant Ojha, Minister for Technical Education UP
Hon’ble Prof R K Khandal , Vice Chancellor of UPTU
Mr Anupam Kher , Bollywood Actor
Prof. Ravi Sandhu , University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Siddharth Luthra , co-partner Luthra and Luthra law firm
Prof. Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University, Warsaw, Poland.
Prof. Jemal H. Abawajy, Director, Parallel and Distributed Computing Lab, Deakin University, Australia
Dr. Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Dr. Michael Steiner, IBM Research – India
Prof. Lotfi Asker Zadeh , Founder of Fuzzy Logic ,University of California Berkeley, USA
Mr Raju Srivastav , Comedian
Shri S L Bansal, Chairman , Oriental Bank of Commerce
Shri Ashwini Kumar , Chairman , Dena Bank
Ranveer Singh , Bollywood Actor
Ms Sunidhi Chauhan , Singer
Mr Suneil Shetty, Bollywood actor
Mr. Dhruv Shringi, CEO, Yatra.com
Mr. Rahul Mehra, Senior Lawyer, Supreme Court
Mr. Shameem Anwar, Senior Manage, IRPPL
Dr. RajkumarBuyya, Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Future Fellow of the Australian
Research Council, and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the
University of Melbourne, Australia
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Galgotias was also a Host of numerous events such as the most reputed ICACCI conference. The scope of ICACCI2014 is to provide an international forum for exchange of ideas among interested researchers, students, developers,
and practitioners in the areas of computing, communications, and informatics. The technical program of the
Conference included tutorials, regular technical sessions, symposiums, workshops, demos and plenary/keynote
speeches. ICACCI-2014 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics Society.
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GEEE 2014 :Galgotias also successfully held the GEEE-2014 ( Galgotias Engineering entrance examination 2014)
which was taken by 25000 students in over 15 center’s across the country and only the top 1500 meritorious
students were selected and given admission to Galgotias University.
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NEW INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPEMENTS:
NEW ENGINEERING BLOCK: Galgotias campuses saw several new buildings being inaugurated in campus two. A
state of the art Engineering block has just finished construction having latest lab equipment’s, advanced computer
labs , Technology enabled seminar rooms , and designated research labs . The faculty and students appreciated the
new building which is beautifully designed by ARCOP in Montreal , Canada by leading education experts from across
the world. The building with its complete finishing will be completed by March 2015.
NEW HOSTEL BLOCK: A new 2-seater 9 floor hostel building was opened for students living in campus-two with a
student capacity of 1200 students which is now operational with facilities such as Wifi, Food-Court, Saloon, Gym,
common areas , indoor games, ac/non-Ac rooms ,Dining areas ,centralized hot water , grocery and general store.
The hostel is now running on full capacity but will be completed with final finishing by March 2015.
NEW SPORTING FACILITIES: We are now re-developing and renovating a complete sports area in campus-two
which will be professionally managed and will include basketball courts , cricket ground , tennis courts , volleyball
courts, badminton courts, An Olympic size swimming pool and several other indoor-games which will give a
platform for our students to reach any level whichever sport they like to play and excel.
NEW FOOD COURT: A new food court with several brands has already been established and a restaurant is now
open at A block with several facilities such as news updates, desktops , reading area , wifi lounge etc where students
can take a break after college hours and work on assignments.
B.TECH CSE IN ASSOCIATION WITH IBM with specialization in Cloud Computing, Mainframe Technology, IT
Infrastructure and Open Source and Standards :
Galgotias University entered into an MOU with IBM for the launch of the IBM Innovation Centre for Education. The
courses delivered at this centre have been designed by industry experts and have industry aligned curriculum. The
course contents meet the requirements of futuristic technology. The industry has eagerly reached out with job
offers to the students enrolled in this program. Infact 90% of the students of the B.Tech, CSE IBM program secured
jobs on day one of the recruitment drive in prestigious companies such as Infosys, Wipro, and Cognizant &
Accenture.
NEW LABS IN THE PIPELINE:
The following labs will be set up in the next few months.
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Architecture Lab
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Psychology Lab
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Chemical Engineering Lab II
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY PROGRAM and LIFE LONG LEARNING for Galgotians:
Galgotias University and GCET we have formed School of Lifelong learning (SLLL ), the aim of which is to groom
engineering students right form 1st year till 4th year in the following areas such as Professional and behavioral
skills, Business English, Presentation Skills, Communication Skills and interpersonal skills, Basic Grammar – parts of
speech, sentence correction, sentence completion, Para jumbles, paracompletions,Critical reasoning, Vocabulary
building, Reading , writing and speaking, How to face a personal interview, Resume Writing, Group Discussions, All
the topics of Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning and Data Interpretation
The English Proficiency Program introduced at the University develops effective speaking interpersonal skills and
mathematical and reasoning skills. This program has been immensely successful in its goal of creating corporate
ready students. The placement figures recorded a new high as students cleared the written tests and subsequent
interviews of the visiting corporates in large numbers, as a result of the rigorous inputs given to them by the team of
motivated and qualified corporate trainers at GU.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FACULTY RESEARCH:
A DST funded project on “Developing 3G/WLAN Interworking Network with Seamless Mobility Support between
the two Systems” has been undertaken with DST – GU – Airtel collaboration. DST has also given substantial grant for
setting up a Nano Technology Lab on “Self-assembly of semiconductor nanostructure for sensing”. The faculty at GU
has to its credit 213 research papers in both national and international journals
QUALITY FACULTY RESOURCES:
The faculty and staff at GU are committed to students’ success. Many of them have years of experience in their
respective academic and professional fields. It is our belief that personal attention and innovative teaching practices
are the best way to address the personal educational interest of the students. We are committed to attracting the
very best faculty and encourage and develop the ones we currently have and to foster a culture of career long
development for faculty.
I wish you all the very best for the forthcoming year and assure you that the faculty and staff at GU is dedicated to
ensuring that each student has access to all the educational opportunities offered here. Please feel free to contact
me for your feedback, suggestions and ideas which have the potential to make Galgotias into one of the leading
universities in the country.
A very happy and successful New year 2015 !
Dhruv Galgotia
CEO
Galgotias Education Group
Email: Dhruv@galgotias.in
Facebook: facebook.com/galgotiasuniversity