University of Mumbai

University of Bombay
Formerly University of Bombay (Till 1996)
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Motto	Sanskrit: शीलवृतफला विद्या
Motto in English	"The Fruit of Learning is Good Character and Righteous Conduct"
Established	18 July 1857
Type	Public
Chancellor	Governor of Maharashtra: Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (2011-present)
Vice-Chancellor	Rajan M. Welukar (2010- present)
Location	Bombay, Maharashtra, India 18°58′30″N 72°49′33″E
Campus	Urban
Sports	Football,cricket,seven tiles, kabadi, basketball, hockey, tennis, swimming, etc.
Nickname	UOM
Mascot	Willie The Worm
Affiliations	UGC, NAAC, AIU
Website	mu.ac.in

Founded in 1857, the University of Bombay is one of the three oldest public state universities in India, located in the city of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra. The other two, also founded in 1857, are the University of Calcutta and the University of Madras located in the Presidency towns of Calcutta and Madras^{[citation needed]}. It is abbreviated as either UoM, standing for University of Mumbai or MU for Mumbai University. The University of Mumbai primarily imparts education through its numerous affiliated colleges, which are located in Mumbai city, Mumbai suburbs, and six coastal districts in Maharashtra: Navi Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, Konkan, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg. It offers Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees apart from diplomas and certificates in many disciplines.

The language of instruction for most courses is English. Most of the public colleges in Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg are affiliated to the University of Mumbai. A majority of private colleges located in these places, which offer professional courses such as engineering, are also affiliated to MU. One of its two campuses in Mumbai is located in Kalina, Santacruz. The campus houses academic and administrative departments. Another campus located in Fort carries out administrative work only. Several world-renowned institutes in Mumbai were affiliated to the university. Most of them are now autonomous institutes or deemed universities.

History

Completed Rajabai Tower and University Hall, circa 1905.

John Wilson, D.D., F.R.S founder of the university

A file photo of University of Mumbai's Fort Campus taken in 1870s. Rajabai Clock Tower, here seen shrouded in scaffolding, was completed in 1878.

It was known as the "University of Bombay" until 1996, when the city of Bombay was renamed Mumbai. The university was renamed as per a gazette of the Government of Maharashtra dated September 4, 1996.

The University of Mumbai was established in 1857 by Dr John Wilson (after whom Wilson College in Mumbai is named), according to the "Wood's Education Dispatch" drafted by Sir Charles Wood in 1854. It was modelled on the universities in Great Britain.

St. Xavier's College was affiliated to the university in 1868, with Wilson as its first vice-chancellor^{[citation needed]}. His wife, Margaret Bayne Wilson, founded 16 schools mainly for girls, the most famous among them being Wilson College, Mumbai and St. Columbia High School. Initially, the Elphinstone College building was used as the Mumbai University campus.

Initially, the university officials focussed their efforts on imparting undergraduate courses and conducting examinations. Research disciplines and post-graduate courses were added later. Several university departments were established, starting with the School of Sociology and Civics and Politics. After India achieved independence in 1947, the functions and powers of the university were sought to be reorganised, for which The Bombay University Act of 1953 was passed.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah founder of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan studied there.

Campuses

The University of Bombay has two campuses in Bombay. The Kalina campus, located in suburban Mumbai, spans an area of 230 acres (approx. 930,777 m²), the Fort campus 13 acres (approx. 52,609 m²)^{[citation needed]}. It has 1.25 million square feet (381,000 m²) of built-up area, 22,000 square feet (6,705.6 m²) of classrooms, and 84,000 square feet (25,603.2 m²) of laboratory space. It has two post-graduate centres, 354 affiliated colleges, and 36 departments.^{[citation needed]}

Kalina Campus

The Kalina campus has on-campus graduate training and research centres. Several departments offering courses in the streams of science, technology, commerce, and humanities are located here. However, most colleges of engineering and medicine affiliated to the University of Mumbai are privately owned. The university does not have its own engineering and medicine departments.

An indicative list of centres and institutes located in the Kalina Campus:

• National Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology — a research facility
• Department of Biophysics, the only department of its kind in western India.
• Jawaharlal Nehru Library
• Examination House, also known as Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Bhavan. It houses the office of the Controller of Examinations.
• Garware Institute of Career Education and Development. It offers courses including one in medical transcription and management courses such as agriculture business management, pharma management and tourism management.
• MUST (मस्त ) FM, the campus radio station of the university operates from here at 107.8 MHz.
• Alkesh Dinesh Mody Numismatic Museum. It displays currency from around the world belonging to many periods.
• Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies (ADMI). It offers BMS, MFSM and MMS programmes.
• Department of Extra Mural Studies. It conducts weekend courses in many disciples including astronomy, astrophysics, plant and animal taxonomy, hobby robotics, and hobby electronics.
• The Institute of Distance Education (IDE) offers distance learning courses in humanities, sciences, commerce, computer science, and information technology.
• Western Regional Instrumentation Centre (WRIC) is a research and training facility for instrumentation engineering and science.
• Centre for African Studies
• Centre for Eurasian Studies
• A rose garden where more than a hundred varieties of rose have been cultivated.
• Marathi Bhasha Bhavan Centre for learning the Marathi language conducts academic activities and cultural activities associated with the language.

Fort Campus

Side view of the Fort Campus

The University of Bombay was established in 1857 at the Fort campus, which is located near the southern end of Mumbai. It houses the administrative division of the university. It is built in the Gothic style of architecture. The Rajabai clock tower stands in the lawns of the campus. Also located in this campus is the convocation hall of the university, which has been accorded the status of a heritage structure by UNESCO^{[citation needed]}.

Rajabai Clock Tower

Rajabai Clock Tower

One of Mumbai's landmarks, the Rajabai Clock Tower houses the university library. Based on plans by British architect Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in the 1870s, it was modelled on the Big Ben clock tower of London. Businessman Premchand Roychand contributed monetarily to the construction of the tower. It was named in memory of his mother Rajabai. It is 280 feet tall, with five storeys. At a height of 30 feet from the ground, there are eight statues representing the Indian castes. The tower clock is reported to have played 16 tunes including Rule, Britannia.

Ratnagiri Campus

A minor campus running mostly extramural courses is located in the town of Ratnagiri.

Other institutes

Several departments of the University of Mumbai are at places other than the Fort or Kalina campuses. These include the Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Technology (MUICT), formerly (UDCT), which later became autonomous^{[citation needed]}. The departments of Medicine and Medical Research are located in several prominent hospitals in Mumbai, such as the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay Hospital, and G.S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital.

St. Xavier's College was the first degree-granting college affiliated to the university. It was granted autonomy in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Additionally, about 90 privately run engineering colleges in Mumbai, suburban Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and coastal Maharashtra districts are affiliated to the University of Mumbai.

Libraries

Jawaharlal Nehru Library

The library

Central Hall

Jawaharlal Nehru Library (JNL) is the central library, located in the campus at Kalina. It houses 850,000 books, documents and scientific journals, theses, encyclopedias, 30,000 microfilms and more than 1,200 rare manuscripts, International Monetary Fund reports, census records, and several hundred e-journals^{[citation needed]}. Most books in the library are on the basic sciences, social sciences, and behavioural sciences.

The technology and applied research journals and books of the University of Mumbai are kept at other libraries including those at Institute of Chemical Technology, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, and Tata Memorial Hospital. The University of Mumbai collection comprises more than a million books, documents, and scientific journals.

Faculties and Departments

University of Mumbai has several hundred affiliated colleges offering undergraduate and post-graduate education, and conducting research, in areas of science, commerce, arts, engineering, management, law, etc. Each college has its own campus and specialized departments/centres. Vitthal Bodekar.

The university itself also has some centres, institutes and departments in its faculties, on its campuses in Fort, Kalina, etc.

Areas of education and research are summarized in the table below:

Faculty	Departments/Centres/Institutes
Management	Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial & Management Studies
Arts	Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension Center for Disaster Management Comparative Literature Classics Education Fine Arts Film & Media Studies Gender Studies Library and Information Science Language, Linguistics and Literature Management Studies Philosophy Social & Cultural Analysis
Social Science	Department of Anthropology Department of Applied Psychology Department of African Studies Department of Bioethics Department of Creative Writing Department of Communication and Journalism:- Department of Civics & Politics Department of Demography Department of Public Administration Department of Economics Department of Eurasian Studies Department of Geography Department of History Department of Sociology
Commerce	Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute of Investment studies Department of Commerce Department of Business Administration (International Business, HRM)
Law	Department of Law and Justice Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Science	Department of Atmospheric Science Department of Biotechnology Department of Biophysics Department of Botany Department of Chemistry Department of Computer Science Department of Environmental Science Department of Geological Science Department of Geobiology Department of Human Ecology Department of Home Science Department of Information Technology Department of Life Sciences Department of Mathematics Department of Microbiology Department of Neural Science Department of Nutritional Science Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Department of Oceanography Department of Physics Department of Statistics Department of Zoology
Engineering/Technology	Automobile Engineering Biomedical Engineering Biotechnology Chemical Engineering/Technology Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Construction Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics Engineering Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Information Technology Instrumentation Engineering Marine Engineering Mechanical Engineering Printing and Packaging Technology Production Engineering
Sports	Physical Education Department of Physical Education and Sports Pavilion
Institutes & Centers	Academy for Administrative Careers Center for Cultural Studies Center for Development Studies Centre for Extramural Studies Center for Healthcare Management Center for Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Department of Student Welfare (Vidyapeeth Vidyarthi Bhavan) Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belongings ("CoHaB") Dr Ambedkar Centre for Social Justice Film and Media Academy Garware Institute of Career Education and Development Gurudev Tagore Chair of Computer Literature Indo-Canadian Studies Centre Institute of Modern Language Institute of Science (managed by the state Government of Maharashtra) Institute of Social and Economic Research UGC Academic Staff College Western Regional Instrumentation Centre

Rankings

University and college rankings
General – International
QS (World)	551–600
QS (Asian)	151–160

Internationally, the University of Mumbai was ranked 551–600 in the QS World University Rankings of 2011 and 151–160 in the QS Asian University Rankings of 2012.

The University of Mumbai has been given a ranking of five stars by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).^{[citation needed]} In 2012, it was awarded a CGPA of 3.05 out of 4 and the highest rating ("A" grade) by the NAAC for its overall performance. The University Grants Commissionalso accorded the University of Mumbai with the status of "University with Potential for Excellence"^{[citation needed]}.

Vice chancellors

• John Wilson 1857
• Raymond West
• Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, 1863–1868
• William Guyer Hunter 1869
• Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1892–1893
• Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, 1893–1894
• N. G. Chandavarkar −1913
• Justice Mirza Akbar Khan, 1930–31
• R. P. Paranjpe, 1934
• Pandurang Vaman Kane
• John Matthai, 1955–1957
• V. R. Khanolkar, 1960–1963
• Dr. Shashikant Karnik
• M. D. Bengalee, 1986
• Dr. (Smt.) Snehalata Deshmukh, −2000
• Dr. Bhalchandra Munagekar, 2000–2005
• Dr. Vijay Kholeee, 2005 – September 2009
• Dr. (Smt.) Chandra Krishnamurthy, September 2009– July 2010, Acting Vice Chancellor
• Dr. Rajan Welukar, July 2010–present

Alumni

• Sir Ram Manohar Mishra
• Sir Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal, 2nd Baronet
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah - founder of Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
• Lokmanya Tilak – Maker of modern India, Indian nationalist leader, savant, philosopher, mathematician.
• B. R. Ambedkar – Architect of modern India and author of the Constitution of India, social reformist and thinker.
• Lal Krishna Advani – Former Deputy Prime Minister of India
• John Abraham - Bollywood actor.
• Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi – Judge, High Court of Sindh & Balochistan, Pakistan.
• Kona Prabhakara Rao – Governor of Maharashtra, Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, Governor of Sikkim, Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Speaker of AP State Assembly
• Ahmed Hussain A Kazi – Secretary to Government of Pakistan and Chairman Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation
• Satyajeet Dubey, actor (Always Kabhi Kabhi)
• Mahadev Govind Ranade – Indian lawyer, reformer and author, first batch graduate
• Man Mohan Sharma – Fellow Royal Society, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Former Director of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT)
• Jagdish Bhagwati – University Professor of Economics at Columbia University
• Nissim Ezekiel – Indian poet (English language)
• Anil Kakodkar – Director of BARC and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy
• Klaus Klostermaier, F.R.S.C., Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Scholar of Indian Studies
• R.A. Mashelkar – Fellow Royal Society, General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Mukesh Ambani – Managing Director, Reliance Industries (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Yogesh Chabria – Investor, entrepreneur and bestselling author of the Happionaire series.
• Anji Reddy – Founder, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Padma Shri (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Keki Hormusji Gharda – Founder, Gharda Chemicals (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Homai Vyarawalla (1913– ) – First woman photojounalist of India, Padma Vibushan
• Anant Pai – Publisher of Indian books for children especially the series Amar Chitra Katha
• Dwarkanath Kotnis – A well-known doctor in China who helped Chinese communists army during the World War II.
• Ebrahim Alkazi – Theatre director, Padma Vibhushan
• Vinay Pillai- Popular Indian
• Madhuri Dixit- Popular Indian Actress
• Urmila Matondkar- Well-known Indian Actress
• Lara Dutta – Miss Universe in 2000
• Anand Patwardhan – Indian documentary film-maker
• Sunil Gavaskar – Indian cricketer (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Smita Patil – Indian actress (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Shabana Azmi – Indian Actress (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Edward Hamilton Aitken – humorist, naturalist
• Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar – Oriental scholar and social reformer, first batch graduate, later vice-chancellor
• Acacio Gabriel Viegas – Medical practitioner credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai, India in 1896.
• Georg Bühler – Scholar of ancient Indian languages and law, fellow of University of Mumbai.
• John Samuel Malecela – Prime Minister of Tanzania from 1990–1994.
• Indira Viswanathan Peterson – Professor of Asian Studies and editor of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.
• S. K. Venkataranga – lawyer and associate of Gandhi
• G.S. Maddala – American economist and mathematician
• Harish Kapadia – Himalayan Mountaineer and recipient of Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society
• Mehli Mehta – Indian conductor of European classical music and father of conductor Zubin Mehta.
• Manil Suri – Indian mathematician and writer.
• Kashinath Trimbak Telang – Indian judge and oriental scholar.
• B.N. Srikrishna – Indian jurist and a Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Sir Pherozeshah Mehta – Indian political leader and social activist.
• Madhav Das Nalapat – Holder of the UNESCO Peace Chair.
• P. N. Bhagwati – Chief Justice of India (1985–1986)
• Bhulabhai Desai – Indian freedom fighter and lawyer.
• Vasundhara Raje – Chief Minister of the state of Rajasthan, India.
• Ranjan Ghosh – Indian screenwriter and director Aparna Sen's first co-author.
• Vidya Balan – Indian actress based in Mumbai, India.
• Gangadhar Gadgil – Marathi fiction writer.
• Rafiq Zakaria – late Indian politician and Islamic scholar.
• Pandurang Vaman Kane – Indologist and Sanskrit scholar and former Vice Chancellor of university of Mumbai.
• Mancherjee Bhownagree – British politician of Indian Parsi heritage.
• Nanabhoy Palkhivala – Indian jurist and economist.
• Sucheta Dalal – Business journalist from Mumbai, India.
• Thrity Umrigar – Journalist and author from Mumbai, India.
• Aditi Govitrikar- Mrs World 2000
• Chanda Kochhar- MD and CEO, ICICI
• Harish Manwani- Chairperson, Hindustan Uni Lever Ltd.
• Nitin Paranjpe- MD & CEO, Hindustan Uni Lever Ltd.
• Zakir Naik – Muslim preacher on comparative religion
• Sanjeev Naik – MP from Thane
• Praful Patel – MP from Bhandara-Gondiya
• Sanjay Dina Patil – MP from Mumbai North East
• Nilesh Rane – MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg
• Ajit Gulabchand – Industrialist, Chairman and Managing Director Hindustan Construction Company
• Ravi Gomatam – Quantum Physicist, Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology, Berkeley, and Mumbai

• Virchand Gandhi - represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions, Chicago in 1893 along with Vivekanand.
• Shanti Gandhi - American physician and politician

Co-operation with other Universities

Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with Tianjin University, Tianjin University of Technology and Nankai University in China as well as Edith Cowan University in Australia.

See also

• List of universities in India
• Universities and colleges in India
• Education in India
• Distance Education Council
• University Grants Commission (India)
• National Assessment and Accreditation Council

External links

• Official website
• Mumbai University Question Papers