Ashoka University

About Ashoka University

Ashoka University is a private, not-for-profit liberal-arts and research university located in Sonipat, Haryana, India, on the outskirts of the Delhi National Capital Region. The university was established in 2014 through the philanthropic contributions of a collective of founders and has positioned itself as one of India's leading institutions for undergraduate liberal-arts education and interdisciplinary research. The university offers undergraduate honours and majors programmes across departments including English, history, political science, economics, sociology and anthropology, philosophy, psychology, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, and visual arts, alongside interdisciplinary programmes such as Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Postgraduate offerings include masters programmes in liberal studies, economics, computer science, English, and other disciplines, alongside PhD programmes across multiple departments and dedicated research centres. Ashoka also operates several research and policy centres, including the Trivedi Centre for Political Data, the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change, the Lodha Genius Programme, and others, and it offers a Young India Fellowship and other postgraduate diplomas. The university is a founding member of the Liberal Education India initiative and collaborates with several international universities on student-exchange and research programmes. The university hires across academic and non-academic roles. Indian early-career hiring at Ashoka spans software-engineer and IT roles supporting the university's digital and learning systems, research-associate and teaching-fellow positions across departments and centres, library-and-archive roles, design, communications, fundraising, and student-services roles, with positions sourced through the Ashoka University careers portal.

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