Guru Jambheshwar University Of Science And Technology, Hissar

A B.Tech seat on the GJUST campus is not allotted by GJUST. Admission to the campus B.Tech and B.Tech lateral entry programmes is made through online counselling conducted by the Haryana State Technical Education Society, Panchkula, the same body admits B.Pharm and B.Pharm lateral entry students, and the working professional B.Tech sections are notified separately by that society or the university. Every other seat is allotted by the university itself, on an entrance test it sets and marks, on the academic merit of the qualifying examination, or on a national score, with GATE, GPAT and CAT deciding the M.Tech, M.Pharm and MBA lists. Which of those two queues a programme sits in decides which portal an applicant registers on, and it decides who publishes the merit list they will be watching for.

GJUST is a state government university at Hisar in western Haryana, built around science, technology and professional programmes while also teaching humanities, education and law. It started under an Act of the State Legislature on 20 October 1995, the University Grants Commission recognised it under Section 2(f) in January 1996 and under Section 12(B) for central assistance in February 1997, and it carries an 'A+' grade from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council awarded in its fourth cycle in 2022.

The campus is large and self-contained. The university sits on 372 acres with 13 academic blocks and runs 88 regular programmes through 30 teaching departments grouped under nine faculties. It shares the city with two agricultural and veterinary universities that NIRF ranks in its own Agriculture table, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University at 10th and Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at 37th, neither of which admits through anything described on this page.

Its degree-awarding role reaches past its own gate in one narrow way. A state notification dated 21 June 2017 fixed the university's jurisdiction over all types of colleges in Hisar district, so its examination and affiliation work covers colleges across that district as well as the 30 departments on the campus.

The taught postgraduate side is deep for a technology university without being the larger half of the roll. In its 2025 submission to the Ministry of Education the university reported 3,433 students in four-year undergraduate programmes, 636 in three-year undergraduate programmes, 2,229 in two-year postgraduate programmes, 26 in one-year postgraduate programmes, 381 in five-year integrated programmes and 777 full-time doctoral scholars.

Fees here are published as a single yearly total per programme, and in almost every programme that total climbs with each year of the degree. The DBT-sponsored M.Sc Biotechnology line is the one that does not move, at Rs 25,000 in both years. The heaviest split is inside B.Tech itself, where the computing branches are charged on a separate line from the rest.

Each year is billed in two instalments that together come to the yearly total plus the separate other-fees column, and the first instalment is the larger of the two because that column rides on it. A first-year B.Tech student outside the computing branches pays Rs 49,400 in the first semester and Rs 44,500 in the second, while the CSE, IT, CSE (AIML) and AI and DS student pays Rs 59,500 and then Rs 54,600. The gap between the two B.Tech tracks widens with each passing year of the degree.

The two nursing lines sit far above every other programme on the campus, on an identical ladder, and the reason is not tuition. The first-year total of Rs 1,96,000 carries Rs 1,50,400 of maintenance and user charges against Rs 14,000 of tuition, where a first-year B.Tech student outside the computing branches carries Rs 57,400 of maintenance and user charges.

The other-fees column is the one that changes between the first year and the rest. It comes to Rs 4,900 in the first year and Rs 1,900 in later years, and Rs 3,000 of the first-year figure is refundable caution money adjusted against the final semester, with the rest made up of a Rs 1,200 student welfare fund, a Rs 400 alumni fee, Rs 100 each for the Red Cross, insurance and waste management.

None of these totals is what every student actually pays. The fee chapter carries a lettered run of concessions that cut against them, and the largest cancels the bill outright for Scheduled Caste students of Haryana below an income line; the waivers are set out further down.

Every campus seat runs on a published merit route, and the route changes from one programme to the next even inside the same building.

The first-year B.Tech route is the one most searchers get wrong, because the university's own application form plays no part in the allotment. Admission is made on the inter-se merit of JEE Main 2026 Paper 1 conducted by the NTA, and a candidate needs at least 45% marks in the prescribed subject group, relaxed to 40% for reserved category candidates. The society's other intakes here do not use JEE Main at all. B.Tech lateral entry is filled on the rank of OCET 2026, an online common entrance test conducted by the society, and B.Pharm and B.Pharm lateral entry are filled on the inter-se rank of a separate OCET 2026 pharmacy paper of 90 marks over 90 minutes, a basis the society applies to every pharmacy seat in Haryana under a High Court direction in CWP no. 177767 of 2019 rather than by its own choice. An applicant who prepares only for JEE Main has prepared for the first-year B.Tech seat and for nothing else the society allots on this campus.

Only after the counselling seat is taken does the university's own form appear. Students admitted through the society's counselling submit the university online form afterwards, paying Rs 800 as general category, Rs 400 as EWS of Haryana and Rs 200 as reserved category of Haryana. One law seat carries a caveat the fee table does not show. Admission to the B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) programme is made provisionally, subject to the grant of approval from the Bar Council of India for the 2026-27 session.

The university's own entrance test is short and it does not punish a guess. It carries 100 questions for postgraduate programmes and 90 for undergraduate ones, each of one mark, over one and a half hours, with multiple choice questions and no negative marking, while the B.Sc Nursing paper runs to 180 questions over three hours. One M.Sc intake sits outside that test altogether. The 30 DBT-supported seats in M.Sc Biotechnology are filled through the Graduate Aptitude Test-Biotechnology 2026, while the 14 remaining seats in the same subject go through the university's own entrance test, which is why that programme carries two fee lines and two queues.

Where the seat sits in the quota structure matters as much as the score. Seats are split 85% to bonafide residents of Haryana and 15% to the All India category, and inside the Haryana share the open general category holds 50%, Scheduled Castes 20% with half of that set aside for Deprived Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes Block A 16%, Backward Classes Block B 11% and differently-abled candidates 3%. On the engineering side a further rule cuts across all of it. A 25% horizontal reservation for girl candidates applies in all categories except supernumerary seats in the society's counselling.

The calendar is tight at the front and long at the back. The online application form opened on 04.05.2026 with a last date of 01.06.2026 for all regular programmes other than nursing, and the last cut-off date for admission is 05.08.2026 for UGC programmes and 14.08.2026 for AICTE programmes.

We could not find a branch-wise closing rank list for GJUST published by the university or by the counselling society as a downloadable document. The society's admission portal carries a last year's opening and closing rank cut-off tool that is driven by two dropdowns, one for the course and one for the institute, and that tool is the only official route the counselling body offers to a previous cycle's closing rank. Nothing on the university's side duplicates it, so the figures circulating on aggregator pages are not traceable to a published table.

What is published are the qualifying thresholds, and they are firm rather than indicative.

The MBA threshold is the one that behaves like a real cutoff, because a shortfall on it changes the route rather than ending it. If seats remain vacant for want of candidates holding a valid CAT score, the same seats are filled from the merit list of the university's own entrance test, again weighted 80% with 10% each for the group discussion and the personal interview.

The university reports its placement numbers to the Ministry of Education by programme length, and the four-year undergraduate cohort is the one most B.Tech searchers are after.

Read the three-year row as a study-onward cohort rather than as a placement failure: 41 of 317 graduates were placed and 261 went into further study. It is also a shrinking row. The sanctioned intake for three-year undergraduate programmes fell from 380 in 2021-22 to 335 in 2022-23 and to 40 in 2023-24, so what it reports is a cohort on its way out of the return. Its Rs 4,80,000 median rests on 41 people and should not be set against the four-year figure, which rests on 477.

The four-year median rose in each of the three cohorts, but the cohort was also getting bigger and the share of it that got an offer ended lower than it started. The median was Rs 2,95,000 for the class graduating in 2021-22, Rs 3,45,000 for 2022-23 and Rs 4,63,500 for 2023-24, while the placements behind those medians were 532 of 557 graduates, then 412 of 595, then 477 of 659. The dip is in the middle year and the recovery is partial, so a page that quotes the rising median without the two counts behind it is quoting half of what the university submitted.

Pharmacy is reported separately and its postgraduate side pays better than the university average. In the pharmacy submission, 30 of 58 undergraduates from the 2023-24 cohort were placed at a median of Rs 4,25,000, and 37 of 41 postgraduates were placed at a median of Rs 4,96,191.

We could not find an official list of recruiting companies, a highest-package figure, or a branch-level average for Computer Science and Engineering published by the university. The medians above are reported for a whole programme length, not for one branch. Its Training and Placement Cell describes the drives it runs, the pre-placement talks, written tests, group discussions and interviews, and the weekly aptitude testing and coding competitions behind them, without naming the firms that hire, so any company list you see elsewhere is not traceable to the university.

Campus B.Tech intake leans towards computing: Computer Science and Engineering and its artificial intelligence and machine learning variant are the only two branches sanctioned above 60 seats. The Hindi medium and working professional sections are listed separately again, so they sit on top of the regular branches rather than inside them.

Four more B.Tech sections run in Hindi medium and three for working professionals. Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering each carry 30 seats in the Hindi medium stream, and Mechanical, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering each carry 30 seats for working professionals.

The postgraduate intake is where the university's own admissions do the heavy lifting. The Haryana School of Business admits 240 to the MBA and 180 to the integrated BBA-MBA, MCA takes 60 and integrated BCA-MCA 120, the four M.Pharm specialisations take 15 each, and B.Sc Nursing and Bachelor of Physiotherapy take 100 each.

One supernumerary block repeats down the seat list, printed as a +2+1+1+1 tail against the M.Sc, M.A., M.Com, library science, B.Voc, B.Sc Aviation and integrated B.Sc lines, and against none of the B.Tech, B.Pharm, MBA, MCA, M.Tech, M.Pharm, nursing, physiotherapy or law entries. It is two seats for a single girl child of Haryana, one for a north-eastern candidate or a ward of a person deceased due to COVID-19 in Haryana, one for a child of a permanent university employee and one for a Kashmiri migrant, each created in the UGC programmes and excepted for the physiotherapy programmes, with the seat chapter recording the same block as excepted for AICTE programmes too, and with up to 25% of seats in each programme supernumerary for international students and 15% in AICTE programmes. Between the two exceptions, an applicant to physiotherapy or to any of the AICTE-approved programmes has none of these four to apply against.

GJUST holds a numbered place in two India Rankings 2025 tables and a rank band in five more, so a search that returns only the two numbers is reading less than half of what NIRF published about it.

The other five are band placements, which NIRF publishes without a score or a position inside the band.

The engineering band is the one a B.Tech applicant should weigh, because it is the only NIRF verdict on the branches the Haryana counselling allots, and 201-300 sits well below the university's own standing as a state public institution. The sustainable development band runs the other way: 11-50 is the best position the university holds anywhere in India Rankings 2025, and it comes from a category built on campus practice rather than on research volume.

The shape of the two scored rows tells you more than the ranks do. Graduation outcomes carry the state public university score at 74.50, teaching and resources hold up in the mid sixties, and research and professional practice is the weak column in both tables, at 31.14 and 33.76. A candidate choosing on teaching and completion is reading the strong half of this profile; one choosing on research output is reading the weak half.

Thirty teaching departments sit under nine faculties, and the grouping is unusual for a technology university because law, education and religious studies each hold a faculty of their own while the health subjects are gathered into one.

That table accounts for 29 of the 30. Yoga Science appears in the prospectus list of departments with its own chairperson and extension, but the faculty chapter does not place it under any of the nine, so we have left it unassigned rather than guess at a faculty for it.

Two of the thirty carry the university's subject-level record, though NIRF files both entries under the university's name rather than the department's. The pharmacy submission reports a four-year undergraduate intake of 60, the same as the B.Pharm intake in the prospectus, so the Pharmacy ranking is a reading of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; the Management band is a reading of the Haryana School of Business, which the chairpersons list is alone in showing under a Director rather than a chairperson.

Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Library opened in 1996 in a circular three-storey building with 400 reading seats, works in two shifts and stays open on Saturdays and Sundays, and its night reading hall runs to midnight and around the clock during examinations.

By the end of December 2025 the library held 136,747 books and 6,722 bound volumes of journals, had ordered 199 printed Indian journals and subscribed to 43 magazines and 20 newspapers, and had purchased more than 312,000 e-books from publishers including EBSCO, Emerald, the MIT Press and Cambridge University Press.

Computing and network provision is centralised rather than departmental. The Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Computer and Informatics Centre runs 225 desktop computers with four dedicated servers and a language laboratory, and the Campus Wide Networking Cell connects the campus through roughly 4,500 nodes and 350 Wi-Fi access points on a 1 Gbps National Knowledge Network link with a second 1 Gbps link for redundancy.

Research instrumentation and the large public spaces are shared across departments. The Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Central Instrumentation Laboratory serves the university's own researchers as well as other institutions and industry in the region, and the Ch. Ranbir Singh Auditorium seats an audience of over 1,800, with three seminar halls on its ground floor holding 250, 125 and 125. Sport has 40 acres of its own, with a 400 metre grass athletics track, cricket, football, archery, two basketball and two volleyball courts, synthetic tennis courts and separate gymnasiums for men and women.

Five of the nine hostels are for women, and the block as a whole is smaller than the roll it serves. Nine hostels house more than 2,700 students, four for boys including an international wing, four for girls and one for working women, and the girls' hostels sit inside a common boundary with a cyber cafe, general store and confectionery shop. Set that against the 3,433 students the university reported in its four-year undergraduate programmes alone and a room in Hisar is a real possibility rather than a fallback.

One of the nine names comes straight out of the university's founding story. The boys' hostels are J.C. Bose Sadan, Aryabhatt Sadan, Madan Lal Dhingra Sadan and Vivekanand Bhawan, the girls' hostels are Kasturba, Saraswati, Manikarnika and Amrita Devi Bhawan, and the working women's hostel is Kalpana Chawla Bhawan. Amrita Devi is the Bishnoi woman who, with 362 others, died at Khejarli in 1730 rather than allow green trees to be felled, following the teaching of Guru Jambheshwar Ji Maharaj after whom the university is named.

Two things about hostel admission need watching. Seats are limited and allotment is made on criteria published in a separate hostel prospectus and information brochure that is uploaded on its own schedule, and a medical fitness certificate is required at the time of hostel admission. We could not find a hostel and mess fee table inside the main prospectus, because those charges are notified in that separate brochure rather than in the programme fee chapter.

The university entered 417 faculty members in its 2025 submission to the Ministry of Education. The prospectus does not print that whole body: its faculty chapter lists the regular teachers department by department with designation and desk extension, from senior professors down to assistant professors, and notes that the department-wise list of contractual faculty sits on the university website instead. An applicant can therefore call the permanent staff of a department before accepting a seat, but has to go to the website to see who else is teaching there.

Full-time doctoral enrolment stood at 777 against 17 part-time scholars, and 148 full-time scholars completed their doctorates in 2023-24 against 109 the year before, so all but a handful of the doctoral roll is registered full-time and the supervision load falls on the campus rather than on scholars fitting research around a job.

Funded work has grown on both the sponsored and the consultancy side. The university reported 29 sponsored projects worth Rs 6,61,08,985 in 2023-24, up from 13 projects the previous year, and 77 consultancy projects for 124 client organisations worth Rs 2,73,58,865. On its own count the faculty has published more than 5,893 papers listed in Scopus and the university's h-index has reached 141, the highest of any university in Haryana.

Every GJUST student pays a Rs 400 alumni fee at admission, and the university set up a Department of Alumni Relations in 2016 that runs reunions, mentorship programmes and networking events. What that department describes is the machinery of staying in touch, not a roll of distinguished former students, and its account of alumni achievement names nobody. We found no alumnus named in a source traceable to the university, so this section stays empty rather than carry names that cannot be checked.

Three Haryana universities hold numbered places in the 2025 state public university table, and GJUST is the highest of the three.

GJUST takes that table on two columns only, teaching and resources at 64.52 and perception at 53.63, and finishes behind both of the others on the remaining three: graduation outcomes, where Rohtak and Kurukshetra clear 82 against its 74.50, outreach and inclusivity at 54.13 against 62.07 and 56.13, and research and professional practice at 31.14 against 38.32 and 31.18. Its overall lead therefore rests on perception, where it is fifteen points clear of Kurukshetra, more than on anything measured about its students. Research and professional practice is the column GJUST is weakest in on both of its scored tables.

The lead does not carry over into pharmacy, which is the subject GJUST is best known for. Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak is 43rd in the NIRF 2025 Pharmacy table against GJUST at 49th, so on the one departmental table where both appear, the university GJUST beats by fourteen places overall finishes six ahead of it.

For engineering the route in is the same at all three. The Haryana State Technical Education Society runs the B.Tech counselling for GJUST alongside the University Institutes of Engineering and Technology at Kurukshetra University and at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, so these campuses are compared inside one choice list rather than across separate applications.

The prospectus places the campus on the bye pass of the Delhi to Sirsa to Fazilka highway and describes Hisar as well connected by rail and road, one of three major universities of the state sited in the city. About 275 of the 372 acres have been developed, with two cafeterias, two shopping complexes and a post office, a bookshop and a bank with an ATM inside the campus, which is what the self-contained description in the overview means in practice.

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