Dalai Lama to be chief guest at convocation

New Delhi: The Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), which will be celebrating its 5th annual convocation on Friday, has invited Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama as its chief guest.

The spiritual leader will address the large gathering of the graduating students, faculty, staff members, and distinguished guests on the occasion.  

Lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung, in his capacity as the chancellor of the university, will also preside over the convocation ceremony.  

During the convocation, 530 students, who have completed the prescribed requirements during the academic year 2015-16, will be awarded with Ph.D., M.Phil, MA and BA (honours) degrees in various fields of studies such as women and gender studies, environment and development, English, psychology, human ecology, Hindi, literary art and visual art, and social sciences and humanities among others.

Furthermore, 19 students will be awarded postgraduate diplomas in early childhood care and education, development studies, environment and development, and publishing. The female students, who will be receiving various degrees and diplomas during the convocation, constitute 66 per cent of the total students.

The university is presently running seven undergraduate, 17 post graduate, 2 PG diplomas, 5 M.Phil, and 9 Ph.D. programmes (total 40 programmes) through its 9 schools such as business, public policy and social entrepreneurship, design, development studies, human studies, liberal studies, and others.  

The university has recently added two new schools namely, School of Vocational Studies and School of Law, Governance and Citizenship. At present, the university has enrolled about 2000 students in two campuses at Kashmere Gate and Karampura. The male-female ratio of students is 2:3. The new campus at Karampura was started in August during the current academic session 2016-17.