About GLA
GLA University is one of the premier universities in India, situated in Northern India. The university was established by our present Chancellor, Shri Narayan Das Agrawal in 1998. The chancellor envisioned GLA as a quality educational institution to serve the higher education needs of the youth of the region and beyond. The institute was accorded the status of the university under the U.P. State Legislative Act of 2009 (UP Act 21 of 2010). Recently the University was accredited with 'A' grade by NAAC. It spread across 110 acres of land and is home to more than 12,000 students, enrolled in a variety of professional courses. It boasts of well-designed and maintained buildings, contemporary laboratories, spacious residential complexes, and recreational facilities. The facilities of such kind and grandeur make the GLA campus one of the best in the region, providing its students an ideal environment to hone their skills in an increasingly competitive and demanding world.
The ubiquity of information technology and computer power can be applied in many areas ranging from industrial production to everyday. Therefore, it is essential to develop better understandings and design methodologies for large scale pervasive systems for various domains, and for the societal challenges.
The ever-growing usage of computer systems in a wide variety of fields has generated a large demand of computer professionals. India is one of the leading exporters of IT talent and Indian Computer Engineers have played a major role in the growth and development of IT sector across the globe. According to NASSCOM, the Indian IT exports are expected to expand to the tune of US$ 175 billion by 2020 and the domestic sector will account for US$ 50 billion in terms of earnings. In order to meet the demand of computer professionals, the Department of Computer Engineering and Applications at GLA University offers various programs at both under graduate and post graduate level. All the programs feature a combination of theoretical and practical elements in order to provide the students a platform for co-relating the learning. In addition, guest lectures and talks by eminent persons from industry and academia are frequently arranged to keep the students abreast with the latest technologies.
The students are encouraged to develop a wide range of hardware and software based real time projects, knowledge and skills in various areas of Computer Applications. They are encouraged to be creative, inquisitive, analytical, and detail oriented. Thrust is given to cultivate the ability to work in a team and to communicate well among the students. In order to promote research, the University provides scholarship to M. Tech. and Ph.D. scholars based on merit. Moreover, AICTE has also sanctioned scholarship for GATE qualified candidates of the department for M. Tech. program.