Riding crest of placements, RBU announces freeships

MOHALI: Riding high on the crest of placements, the Rayat Bahra University, which has carved an enviable niche for itself in the world of education with unique new-age programs, has announced a number of scholarships and freeships for deserving and meritorious students.

Gurvinder Singh Bahra, Chancellor of the Rayat Bahra University and Chairman of the Rayat Bahra Group of Institutions (RBGI), told media persons here today that the Rayat Bahra University offers attractive scholarship schemes which include cent per cent waiver in tuition fee for students whose both parents are not alive, 50 per cent tuition fee waiver for students whose father is not alive, 50 per cent tuition fee waiver to single girl child born to her parents, and 25 per cent tuition fee waiver to siblings studying in the Rayat Bahra Group. These scholarships are available for the full duration of the programs.

Bahra also announced that the Skill Development Centre (Under the Punjab Skill Development Mission) to bridge the gap between unemployed and uneducated, was training youth in 12 different sectors including automobile, healthcare, agriculture, food, retail, beauty and wellness, tourism and hospitality, financial services and insurance industry (Banking), electronics, IT and ITES (Information Technology Enabled Services), pharmacy, and telecom.

Bahra said the University has introduced a number of new programs in collaboration with top multinational companies to increase the employment potential of the students. Among the new age programs in B Tech the courses offered include B Tech in Android Development  in collaboration with Google, IoT and Java in collaboration with Oracle, Database and Analytics in collaboration with IBM and B Tech in Design and Development in collaboration with Siemens.

Dr Daljit Singh, Vice-Chancellor of the Rayat Bahra University, who was also present on the occasion, said that the Rayat Bahra students, being equipped with industry relevant skills, there has been an upswing in placements and with more than 375 companies have visited different institutions of the Group. These include 183 in engineering and technology, 95 in management and computers, 35 in hotel management, 46 in pharmaceutical science and health sciences, and 20 in law and education. Students have been offered very attractive and lucrative pay packages.

The lush green sprawling campus of the Rayat Bahra University provides a vibrant campus life offering ultra modern infrastructure to its students like a huge 24-hour central library, computer labs, international level sports and recreational facilities, air-conditioned hostels, quality food prepared under strict hygienic conditions, wi-fi facility throughout the campus and round the clock security and CCTV cameras making the campus safe and secure.