O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University), formerly and still informally known as O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) is a private university located at Sonipat, Haryana, India. It was established in 2009 as a philanthropic initiative of its founding chancellor, Naveen Jindal in memory of his father, O.P. Jindal. In 2019, UGC named JGU as an Institute of Eminence, making it one of the ten private universities in India to have received the distinction.

Constituent Colleges
The university consists of twelve schools:-

• Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
• Jindal Global Business School (JGBS)
• Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)
• Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP)
• Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities (JSLH)
• Jindal School of Journalism & Communication (JSJC)
• Jindal School of Banking and Finance (JSBF)
• Jindal School of Art & Architecture (JSAA)
• Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability (JSES)
• Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling (JSPC)
• Jindal School of Public Health and Human Development (JSPH)
• Jindal School of Languages and Literature (JSLL)

Research Centres

• Jindal Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Centre for Health, Law, Ethics, and Technology
• Centre For Middle East Studies
• Centre for Israel Studies
• Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Centre for Public Law & Jurisprudence
• Centre for India-China Studies
• Centre for Comparative and Global Education
• Centre for New Economics Studies
• Jindal Centre for Global South
• Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies

Rankings
The university was ranked 751–800 in the QS World Rankings 2020, making it the youngest university to break into the rankings. JGLS, and National Law School of India, Bangalore, were the only two Indian law schools to make it into the rankings. In the QS World University Rankings 2021 Edition, JGU was ranked in the top 651-700 universities across the world. This placed JGU as the highest ranked private university in India. As a result of having been instituted in 2009, JGU was also ranked in the QS Top 150 under 50 Rankings in 2020 as well as 2021. Jindal law school ranked 76 out of all law schools globally in the QS World Rankings 2021. The university was again ranked as the number 1 private university in India in QS World Rankings 2022.[29] The university has also been granted the status of Institute of Eminence by the Government of India in 2020. In 2017, the university was also termed the cleanest campus in India by Swachhta Ranking 2017. In 2021, JGU was also ranked amongst the top 500 in the world in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022.

Notable Faculty
The university is distinguished to have many respectable faculty members, and has also signed MoUs with universities abroad for faculty exchange and collaboration. The university is considered to be one of the "few 'elite' non-profit universities" besides Ashoka University and Indian School of Business to attract the best faculty. Some of the noted faculty members include:-

• Justice (Retd.) Swatanter Kumar, former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Padma Shri Upendra Baxi, former vice-chancellor of University of Delhi.
• B.S. Chimni, former vice-chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.
• Mahendra Pal Singh, former vice-chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and revising author of V.N. Shukla's "Constitution of India".
• Shiv Visvanathan
• Ramin Jahanbegloo
• Guðmundur Eiríksson, former member of United Nations International Law Commission and judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
• Armin Rosencranz
• Flavia Agnes (visiting faculty)
• Vesselin Popovski, former diplomat.
• Gagan Kumar Kwatra, former head of Indian Council of Arbitration.
• Michael C. Davis

(Source:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._P._Jindal_Global_University)