Dean's Message

Welcome to the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Business Studies.

Every student who leaves this Faculty should carry two fluencies: authority in a chosen discipline, and command of the computational tools that discipline now runs on. Not one subject with a trace of the other attached — both, taught deliberately and assessed as one. Artificial intelligence makes the question urgent: what must a graduate be able to do when computation is assumed?

Few faculties are better placed to answer it. A faculty of liberal arts and business studies inside a university founded on science and technology is a rare construction in India — and this one operates at a scale larger than many universities: some 8,300 students across five constituent schools — Computing, Commerce and Finance, Applied Sciences, Digital Media, and Fashion Design — spanning eighteen departments. Three languages run through them all...