Government College of Physical Education, Ganderbal: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

The GCPE, Ganderbal was founded in 1976, is a renowned college comprising of physical education stream. This co-education college is situated at Gadoora, Ganderbal, District, Jammu and Kashmir and the area of the college is 5063 kanal and the total area of college is 31.875 acres. The College being an affiliated college affords specialised programmes in physical education. It has a total student enrolment of 194 also has a faculty of 6 members which makes it small college learning environment. GCPE provides two full-time degree programmes: Bachelor of Physical Education (B.P.Ed) & Master of Physical Education (M.P.Ed.) as passed to enrich the aspiration of physical educationist.

GCPE has nice sporting complex of camping with other facilities that seek equal development in physical education. The college includes the specific hostel facilities for the boys and girls so that those who live away from the college may not have a problem of accommodation. As the central educational facility, the school’s library offers a collection of approximately 7000 volumes of books and a variety of documents regarding different aspects of PE, health, anatomy, physiology, and sports science. The library is centrally computerised and also provides the dissertations Journals, Magazine, Newspapers and other periodicals. For practice session, GCPE has a multi-benefit hall with well-equipped fitness area and trainers for every other indoor sports and pedestals, parallel bar etc for gymnastic exercises. The college sports facility equally boasts of like an athletic standard 400 meter track, sports fields for hockey football, cricket etc. Besides one has areas for specific field events such as shot put and javelin throw.

About two broad courses in physical education are being offered at the Government College of Physical Education, Ganderbal. Both programmes are full-time on-campus courses of study with the intention of producing professional competent in the field. The B.P.Ed is a two-year programme with approved intake capacity of eighty and M.P.Ed is also two-year programme, but the approved intake capacity of this course is not mentioned. These programmes address the needs of students who want to be awarded undergraduate as well as postgraduate degrees in physical education. The overall enrolment of students in the college is still 194, and this is because the college takes quality education with a view of regulating the size of the classes it offers.

Some of the features that make up admission process in the Government College of Physical Education, Ganderbal includes the following. For the programme of B.P.Ed, a selection committee constituted by the Government of Jammu & Kashmir is Responsible for preparing the selection list. This list is prepared in accordance with the academic qualification of candidates, sporting ability, physical efficiency test, viva-voice examination. The admission of the M.P.Ed programme has similar pattern where merit is considered in order to choose the students. This includes performance in an entrance examination which consists of a written examination and interview, and physical fitness test as well as the percentage earned in the qualifying examination.Students should keep their eyes on college's portal for more updates and information.