Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar

Pandit Deendayal Energy University Gandhinagar

Pandit Deendayal Energy University is a private university located in Gandhinagar which offers various undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programme in various streams. The university was established in the year 2007 by Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI). The university has been recognised by University Grant Commission (UGC) and has been approved by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). The university has been ranked 66th in the NIRF ranking 2021 for the management category. The institute has secured 73rd rank in the University category in NIRF 2021 Ranking.

Location

PDEU is located in Raysan, Gujarat. The Nearby railway station is the Gandhinagar Capital located 13.4 km away from the university. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport is located 15.4 km away from the university. Central Bus Depo Gandhinagar (GSRTC) is the nearby bus depot located 10.4 km away from the college.

Accreditation

Accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council

Accredited by National Board of Accreditation

Ranking:

The university has secured 66th rank in the management category by the NIRF 2021.

The institute has secured 73rd rank in the University category in NIRF 2021 Ranking with an overall score of 41.38 out of 100. 

Collaboration

• Mewborne School of  Petroleum & Geological Engineering, University of Oklahoma

• University of  Tulsa

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• University of Houston, Houston, USA

• Edith Cowan University, Australia

• Sacred Heart University

• Lamar University

• South Illinois University

• University of Wollongong

• Beijing Institute of Technology

• Washington & Jefferson College, USA

• University of Oklahoma, USA

• Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• University of Manitoba, Canada

• Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

• University of Toronto, Canada

• Cape Brenton University

• Challenger Institute of Technology

• The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

• Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya

• University of Houston System, USA

• Texas A&M

• Go Minnesota, A Unit of the GPS Alliance' University of Minnesota

• EBS University of Economics and Law, Germany

• SENECA College, Canada

• Astrakhan State University

• McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

• Otemon Gakuin University, Japan

• University of Saskatchewan, Canada

• Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

• University of Birmingham

• Skyline University College, Sharjah, UAE

• Box Hill College  Kuwait

• Institute of Plasma Research

Clubs, Committees, and Societies

Cultural Committee: This committee organises various cultural activities at the School of Technology (SOT) at PDEU. Various activities include music, dance, dramatics, festival celebration, and other external events.

Sports Committee: This committee organises various sports events throughout the calendar year. The committee has aim to maximise student participation in each sport event.

Publication Committee: This committee organises various events related to student interaction and personality development. The committee also publishes student magazine and create various clubs like book lover meet club and hobby club. 

Science and Technology Committee: The committee has various clubs to conducts various activities of the department. Various clubs include Astronomy Club, Electronics Club, Programming Club, Robotics Club.

Debate/ Elocution/ Essay/ Quiz Committee: This committee organises various competition for debate, elocution, essay and quiz competition.

Hostel Committee: The hostel committee aims for the welfare of the students residing at the hostels. Their objective is to develop a healthier environment in the hostel. 

Jhokorta: This is the literary club of the university which provides the students with an open space to discuss and deliberate on various topics and literary pieces, current and social issues and various ideas under the sky.

Soul Pepper: This is the dance and dramatic club started by the students of the university. The objective of the club is to help the students in various things related to dramatics like voice production, modulation, delivery.

Rang: This is the fine arts club of the PDEU who invites students and assist them to bring out their hidden creativity and provide a platform to those who want to show their creativity and design skills. 

Grow Cook Eat: GCE is the food club of PDEU. The club provides a common space for the people who had a common interest in cooking for information exchange.

Offbeat: This is the music club that invites various students having a talent in music and provides them with a platform to showcase their talent. The club also performs different activities to create awareness of different genres of music.

Elixir: This is the fashion of the university which invites various students to have a good sense in fashion and provides them a space to interact with each other, share a common interest and help other students to develop a sense in fashion.

Debate Society: This society of PDEU invites students to participates in various debates on different topics and provides them with a competitive environment through which they can develop their communication and public speaking skills.

Respawn: This club organises various e-sports events like Arcade, CS, FIFA, Quake, Racing Games, Puzzles and Chess. These clubs also organise various inter-college competitions.

Rotaract: This is a unit of rotary international for youths. The main objective of the club is to help the student in developing leadership skills and encourage them to provide various community services. 

Envirocrats: The aim of this club is to create awareness for various environmental issues and develop in them a sense of responsibility for protecting and conserving the environment.

BRAHMAND: This is the astronomy club of the PDEU which organises various events related to astronomy and astrophysics. 

CRETUS: This is the robotics club of the university and provides the students with a platform for learning various skills like electronics fabrication and robotics programming. 

Encoding: This is the coding club of the PDEU whose objects is to empower various logical and object-oriented skills.

Sorriso: This is the photography club of the PDEU. The club invites various students to develop talent in photography and also provides a platform to the students to showcase their photography skill in front of everyone.

SPPG: The club is involved in various activities related to public governance and business for the welfare of the country and organises various debates related to emerging issues and challenges in larger social and political domains.

VGA: The aim of this club is to spread the social message to people through their skills and develop various ideas to spread the message through scriptwriting, editing, directing. 

Knock Out: This is the mixed martial arts club of PDEU. This club provides self-defence training to students and helps them to remain physically and mentally fit. 

SPIC MACAY: This is the unit “Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth” which organises various events related to classical music and dance folks arts, craft, yoga, heritage walks etc.