Chitkara University tops India’s ‘Top Private Hotel Management Institutes and Top Architecture Colleges’ in GHRDC Survey 2021

Chitkara School of Hospitality has been ranked 07th in Top Hotel Management Institute of Super Excellence and First in Punjab in ‘Top Private Hotel Management Institute’ in State by Global Human Resource Development Centre ( GHRDC), New Delhi. Chitkara School Planning and Architecture has been ranked 07th in ‘Top Architecture College in India’ and 1st in ‘Top Architecture College of Excellence’ by the Global Human Resource Development Centre ( GHRDC).

GHRDC is a research-based organization that has been the pioneer in starting the concept and practice of rating and ranking B-Schools from the very inception of its organization and has since (1998) been involved in rating and ranking of B- Schools in India. This was followed by initiating the Survey and Ranking of Hotel Management Institutes in the year 2007 and the Engineering College Survey since 2009. Over the last eight years, more than 250 business schools, 100 hotel management institutes, and over 100 engineering colleges have been visited, with over 5000 faculty members, 10,000 students, and over 300 directors of various institutes meeting and interacting with them. The richness and range of interactions and experiences is one-of-a-kind, as well as professionally rewarding in strengthening the survey methodology. Some of the categories on Hotel Management Survey 2021 include Supreme, Excellence, Super Excellence, Emerging Excellence and Promising. The Hotel Management Institutions ranking was based on various parameters like Infrastructure ( Physical and Academic ), Faculty, Publication, Research, Consultancy, CDP and other programmes, admission, curriculum and delivery system, placements, USPs and social responsibility and networking and industry interface. The total score was calculated out of 1450. Chitkara School of Hospitality scored 1020 out of 1450 points.

The architecture department at Chitkara is famous for its infrastructure which includes multiple states of the art design studios, multimedia laboratories, audio-visual laboratories, lecture halls, a one-of-a-kind materials museum, and a library brimming with all kinds of books and reference material. Chitkara University’s reputation for innovative teaching, strong industry links and highly employable graduates continues to set its programs apart. The University has also been ranked among the top 10 Indian universities in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) IMPACT Rankings -2021 for achieving the individual Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently.