The Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree offers professional education in the planning field. Graduates may eventually apply their professional skills in various government agencies, private enterprises, or non-profit organizations wit
ivate enterprises, or non-profit organizations within a variety of subject areas.
Managing development and helping to create affordable housing.
Playing a role in regenerating socially-deprived areas and creating new jobs.
Designing our towns and cities to include attractive buildings, vibrant public spaces and bustling shopping centers.
Working to protect our countryside, trees, hedgerows, forests, grasslands, waterways, rivers and shorelines.
Helping to bring back historic buildings into sympathetic use.
Creating policies for managing traffic and providing sustainable solutions to our transport needs.
Improving energy efficiency and cutting carbon emissions in our homes, factories and businesses.
Engaging communities to have a say in how their living space is developed and protected to improve their quality of life.
As Urban and Regional Planning involves a multi-disciplinary approach, we take students from the field of Architecture, Engineering, Geography, Planning and Sociology. However, we feel this needs to be further broad based and open to other related disciplines in the long run.
LJ Group of Institutes is managed by Lok Jagruti Kendra (LJK), a Charitable Trust and a Registered Society established in1980 by eminent academicians and visionaries like Prof. B.M. Peerzada, former Dean of Commerce Faculty,Gujarat University, Padma Bhushan Lord Meghnad Desai (L ondon School of Economics ), Prof. Gautam Appa (LSE), Late Prof. M.S. Trivedi, former Vice Chancellor, South Gujarat University, renowned jurist Late Shri Girishbhai Patel and Shri Subodhbhai Shah. It was envisioned as “a key player in education and social development by promoting and nurturing creativity, scholarship, innovation and excellence through a chain of quality institutes.” LJK’s mission has been “to establish and manage institutions with an environment in which new ideas, delivery strategies and scholarship flourish and from where leaders and innovators of tomorrow shall emerge.”
LJK runs 27 institutions on two well-developed environment-friendly campuses with dedicated buildings and infrastructure facilities, and offering various diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes duly approved by respective apex bodies. LJ Institutes have over 18000 students and 700+ faculties engaged in teaching-learning, research and extension activities and striving to develop students into complete citizens not only having the necessary subject knowledge and skills, but also the empathy towards various environmental, social, cultural and other issues affecting the society.
Some of the remarkable initiatives/activities/features of the LJ Institutes are:
Ø The Business Incubator is an initiative to encourage, promote and support entrepreneurship and innovative Start-ups by bringing national angel syndicates and angel investors for funding.
Ø LJK has set up LJ Knowledge Foundation to promote innovation and start-up interventions in the campus, which has pioneered a series of efforts to harness creative potential of students. It is a nodal agency of Start-up Innovation Scheme of the Government of Gujarat.
Ø For promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship, an annual LJ Innovation Village is being organised since 2013 displaying the projects of students of LJ Institutes as well those from over 10 other states of India.
Ø A unique program, Project to Product, in which student-projects get converted into productive solutions and then taken to the market.
Ø Collaborating with industry to conduct Corporate & Skill Development Training for their employees. More than 5000 employees of Ford, Toyota, Suzuki and the Pharma Industry have been trained so far.
Ø Central Placement Cell is associated with more than 200 leading national and multinational companies to facilitate students for the best job.
Ø LJ School of Law has has taken a pioneering initiative called Law on Wheels designed to serve twin purposes: social as well as academic. Under this the students go to interior villages to study the social reality, legal problems of different classes of people and to spread legal awareness by rendering legal advice and assistance to the socio-economically backward classes.
Ø Through LJ Sahyog more than 2000 engineering students visited 250 villages and successfully developed websites and Facebook pages for them, contributing thereby towards Digital India initiative.
Ø LJ also runs several Centres of Excellence focused on communication/ presentation skills, personality development, etc. to empower the students with sharp minds and exceptional talent.
Ø LJ Software Factory prepares customized application softwares for business houses and industries.
Ø Regular centre for Conduct of Online Examinations such as CAT, MAT, GATE, AIEE, BITS Pilani, GCET, etc.
Ø Congenial learning environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure facilities with Technologically Well-Equipped classrooms, laboratories, faculty rooms, rich libraries, seminar halls and auditoria.
Ø Learner-centred academic culture without compromise on teaching standards and the knowledge distribution system leading to overall development of students with balanced emphasis on sports, cultural and other extra-curricular activities.
Ø Curriculum enrichment with skill-oriented add-on courses and innovative co-curricular activities followed by varied delivery strategies.
Ø Over 2000 computers linked with optic fiber network.
Ø International Collaborations with faculty exchange, student exchange, joint research projects and research publications as thrust areas.
Ø Strong Alumni Base spread across the country and abroad and occupying key positions in various organizations.
LJK, where education is a passion, the passion which leads to incessant pursuit of knowledge and acquisition of skills, has become the ultimate destination for complete education.
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