The newly set up Central University of Punjab (CUP) at Bathinda is poised to write new alphabet on the academic horizon of India. This University is one of the important links in the recently set up chain of Central Universities created in the educationally backward areas of India. Going to be an upwardly mobile organization, it is destined to emerge as a quality provider of teaching and research, knowledge and skills, products and services, attitudes and ethics. It is gearing up to provide proper institutional leadership to the emerging demands of access, equity, relevance and quality in the mainstream University system. It has already flexed its muscles to initiate its first academic session very shortly.

The University would dynamically and creatively respond to the shifting paradigms in education in tune with the changing needs of society. This holistic, inclusive and multi-disciplinary university would provide an academically ambient environment to develop technologically superior individuals. The University also aims to sponsor time-bound and goal-oriented research and development projects of various types for users like industries, companies and other agencies in India and abroad.

It would conduct world-class programmes simultaneously in Environment and Earth Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities, Languages and Literatures, Basic and Applied Sciences, Life Science Technologies, Information and Communicative Sciences, Design and Planning, Technology and Management, Global Relations and Global Economics. The university also plans to have rich undergraduate programmes on its Campus so that students can interact with the best of the faculty.

The University has already started functioning from its improvised 35-acre vast City Campus in the heart of Bathinda. Located on Bathinda-Mansa road, just 5-km away from the Bus Stand, the City Campus is empowered and equipped with all the logistical supports to cradle its academic and research programmes. The Main Campus of the University would come up on 500 acres of land on the outskirts of Bathinda. Efforts are on to develop energy efficient structures that are grounded in social realities.

The Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, is going to be an ultra-modern & futuristic seat of higher learning by creating a community of teachers, scholars and researchers dedicatedly absorbed in academic exploration, research and development, testing and consultancy. It will have world class infrastructure which would be eco-friendly, and optimally used, with the potential to absorb even yet to emerge technologies. It will be an autonomous and hassle-free space where the creative minds would converge and construct world class knowledge and vision, and where new ideas would germinate, strike roots and grow wings.

The University would create supporting and stimulating conditions and opportunities whereby one can learn, grow, interact and discover. It would be an exciting, safe, healthy, motivated and happening place with a green energy efficient, Wi-Fi campus, innovative and ignited faculty, global level laboratories, automated libraries, vast playgrounds, auditoria, research centres and other world class support systems.
The university would introduce participatory delivery techniques facilitated through seminars, group discussions, off campus visits, online support, web, multimedia, live projects, field studies, demos, team presentations, skill workshops, etc.

The university would celebrate diversity and shall be open to all persons the world over, irrespective of nationality, class, colour, creed, caste, religion and gender. Human and technological concerns would form the bottom-line of this organization. It would endeavour to develop human resource who would be morally upright, intellectually well-informed, socially concerned, physically well-developed, emotionally balanced and culturally bloomed.

The University works with utmost ethics, transparency, non-interference, accountability and decentralization. This upcoming university is committed to fulfill all the criteria in terms of programmes, faculty, infrastructural supports, and other norms as laid down by the University Grants Commission, and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India.