University of Hyderabad
| File:University of Hyderabad Logo.svg | |
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1974 |
| Chancellor | Dr. R. Chidambaram Chairman, Scientific Advisory Council to the Cabinet |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Ram Ramaswamy |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | UGC, NAAC, AIU |
| Website | www.uohyd.ernet.in |
The University of Hyderabad is a post-graduate teaching and research institute in India. It was established by an act of the Parliament in 1974 as a Central University. The university also offers courses under distance learning programs. The university is a member of the 'Association of Indian Universities' (AIU), the 'Association of Commonwealth Universities' (ACU) and 'International Council for Distance Education'. An Academic Staff College has been functioning on the university campus since 1988 under the UGC scheme for improving the standards of teaching in colleges and universities. The college organizes orientation and refresher courses for college and university teachers. The university was recently ranked first among other universities of India in publications.[1].
Campus locations
The university is located at GachiBowli, about 20 km from the city of Hyderabad on the old Hyderabad-Bombay highway. Stretching over nearly 2,300 acres (9.3 km2) of land. The university also has a city campus, "The Golden Threshold", the residence of Sarojini Naidu. The Sarojini Naidu School was located at the Golden Threshold premises for nearly 15 years before it moved to the main campus in Gachibowli in 2003. A Centre for Folk Culture Studies established with financial support from the Ford Foundation under the aegis of the Sarojini Naidu School also operated at this campus.
Academics
The university is divided into the following schools, each of which offer multiple post-graduate/research courses in their respective domains.
- School of Engineering Sciences and Technology
- School of Medical Sciences
- School of Management Studies
- School of Mathematics and Computer
- School of Physics
- School of Chemistry
- School of Life Sciences
- School of Humanities
- School of Social Sciences
- School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts and Communications
- Study India Program
- Centre for Integrated Studies
The university offers courses such as I.M.Sc, I.M.A,M.A, M.Sc, M.C.A, M.B.A, M.Tech in various disciplines. Recently, the University has decided to offer undergraduate courses as well. The university offers various scholarships to top scoring students, students with no financial means, and physically handicapped students. The university offers facilities for campus placements.
School of Life Sciences
School of Life Sciences (SLS) offers Post graduate courses in the major thrust areas of life sciences including Biochemistry, Animal and Plant sciences,Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.
The school comprises of four departments: 1.Department of Biotechnology 2.Department of Animal Sciences 3.Department of Biochemistry 4.Department of Plant Sciences
Each of the four departments offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes of study. Under Distance Education Programme, the School is participating in two P.G. Diplomas: one in "Environmental Management" and the other in "Medicinal Botany".
Centre for Advanced Studies Status: The University Grants Commission has upgraded Phase III of UGC-Special Assistance, DSA programme (period 2002-2007) and sanctioned the status of Centre for Advanced Studies (UGC-SAP-CAS-I) in School of Life Sciences for a period of five years (2008-2013) The following are the thrust areas for research and teaching
Bioresources Novel Biomolecules Functional genomics
School of Management Studies
The School of Management Studies (SMS) opened in May, 1999. It offers an AICTE approved two-year full-time residential MBA Programme and a Ph.D. programme in Management Studies. It promotes faculty and doctoral research, consultancy, training, and outreach activities in various manufacturing, corporate, infrastructural, services and developmental sectors. The school has an academic partnership with College of Business Administration, San Diego State University (SDSU) and National University of Singapore[citation needed]. Admission to the MBA programme is through the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the IIM.
School of Mathematics and Computer/Information sciences
Department of mathematics and statistics
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is a part of the School of Mathematics and Computer/Information sciences, which was established in February 1978 with Prof. M. Venkata Raman, formerly Head, Department of mathematics, Madurai University, as the first dean of the school. Currently there are 17 regular faculty members and 2 visiting faculty with research specialization cutting across the broad areas of Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Number theory, Applied mathematics, Statistics and Operation Research.
The Department has research collaborations with institutes in India and abroad, these include research institutes like TIFR, IMSc., ISI and IISc. The DST has selected this department under its FIST (Funds for Infrastructure in Science and Technology) (Level II) scheme. This grant is to support research in areas under Cryptology, Modelling & Simulation and Dynamical Systems. The Department has also been chosen by the UGC for support under COSIST (Committee for Strengthening Infrastructure in Science & Technology) programme. It is also a recipient of the Special Assistance Programme (SAP) of the UGC. The National Board of Higher Mathematics, (NBHM) has recognized our library as a regional library of the NBHM. And thus provides library grant each year for subscribing journals in Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.
Department of computer and information sciences (DCIS)
The DCIS provides courses such as M.C.A and M.tech. in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Information Technology and also PhDs. The PhD involves a one year course work which involves two comprehensive exams at the end of each semester. There was an active research going on in the current tenure.
School of Humanities
This school has six Departments and Two Centres. The School has following departments and centres under its remit, those include:
- Department of English
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Hindi
- Department of Telugu
- Department of Urdu
- Department of Sanskrit Studies
- Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies
- Centre for Comparative Literature
- English Language Teaching cell
Department of English
The department provides instruction and performs research in both traditional and current areas of English Studies. In addition to core English Literature and American Literature components, it encourages work in New Literatures in English, Comparative Studies, Translation, Culture, Language Studies and Pedagogy[2].
The Department is supported by a UGC-DRS (SAP) programme which is now in its Third Phase. The UGC has sanctioned the programme, “Assistance for Strengthening of Infrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences (ASIHSS)” for five years, beginning April 1, 2006. The Department has xerox machines, audio-visual equipment, and a substantial text-book library built up purely on the strength of donations from faculty, students and other well-wishers. The Department’s Multimedia Laboratory is used for the study of language, drama, media and contemporary images.
Department of Philosophy
The Department has been recognised by the UGC as a Department of Special Assistance since 1987. The thematic areas of research under this programme are (1) Philosophy of Language: Indian and Western: (2) Cognitive Science (including Logic and Philosophy of Mind). The Department has also received grants under ASIHSS for a period of five years since April 2006 to March 2011. The thrust areas under this scheme are (1) Philosophy of Science and (2) Moral and Political Philosophy – both from Indian and Western Perspectives. In addition to these, the Department also carries on research in Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Contemporary Western Philosophy, and systems of Indian Philosophy like Nyaya and Buddhism[3].[4].
Department of Hindi
The Department of Hindi aims at providing teaching and research facilities in Hindi.[5]. Earlier, eminent Hindi critic and specialist on Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Vijendra Narayan Singh was the head of the department.
Department of Telugu
The main objective of the Department of Telugu is to promote studies in Telugu Language and Literature. The Department undertakes teaching and research in Telugu with emphasis on various aspects of historical and comparative studies in language and literature.[6].
Department of Urdu
The department of Urdu places emphasis on the inter‑disciplinary job‑oriented education in Urdu. The department also aims at developing the importance of national integration through its study and research programmes. Urdu is the widely used language of foreign's homes.
Department of Sanskrit Studies
Establishment Sanskrit is a repository of unlimited invaluable knowledge of Ancient Indian Heritage. There is an urgent need for knowledge mining from Ancient Sanskrit Science and Technology texts for bridge building between the past and the future through the present. Keeping this in view, a unique research oriented Department of Sanskrit Studies was established in 2006 which will act as an interface between Sanskrit and the sub-fields of the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Sciences. Goals & Objectives
- To build bridges between the Ancient Indian knowledge systems and the current knowledge systems,
- To explore Ancient Sciences and Technologies with a modern perspective to build alternate viable systems for the future,
- To collect, preserve, and maintain the manuscripts dealing with Ancient Indian Sciences and Technology,
- To train traditional scholars in order to undertake research in application oriented knowledge mining.
Programmes
The Department offers
- Ph.D. Programme in Sanskrit Studies. While the present focus is on Language Technologies,
the Department encourages research in Sanskrit Studies in other disciplines such as Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Ayurveda, etc.The Programme extends over a minimum period of two years from the date of confirmation of admission. The nature of programme is individually decided for each candidate which may include two courses and a dissertation on an approved topic under the faculty guidance.
- M.Phil. programme in Shabdabodha Systems and Language Technologies This is a two semester course.
The first semester consists of course work with minimum 16 credits. In the second semester the student carries out research on an approved topic under the faculty guidance leading to a dissertation.[2]
Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies
The Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), created as a research centre in 1988, established a post-graduate teaching programme in 1990. CALTS specializes in language interface studies with a special emphasis on Language Technology (for which a Special Assistance Programme has been sanctioned by UGC from 2002 to 2007), translation studies, lexicography, language planning and language teaching. CALTS has three ongoing projects on language technology and machine translation funded by MCIT, Govt. of India and UPE. CALTS has specialised faculty members in other areas too, which include formal syntax and semantics, historical linguistics, stylistics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics as well as specialists in different ancient and modern Indian and foreign languages, such as Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali and Russian[7].
Centre for Comparative Literature
The Centre for Comparative Literature functioning since 1988, aims at providing an interface between literatures and cultures with a contemporary charge. The Centre offers research programmes in M.Phil and Ph.D.[8].
Department of political science
Presently there are 20 faculty working in the Department. The student, teacher ratio is 9:1 at the department of Political Science. The Department of Political Science currently has Special Assistance Programme, supported by the U.G.C., in International Relations and Political Theory. The Human Rights programme and the North East India programme are supported by the UPE project. The Department offers courses leading to M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees. The Department has a faculty and student exchange programme with the Uppsala University, Sweden[9]. M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D programmes have been offering by the department of Political Science.
Centre for Integrated Studies
Center for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy
The UGC has recently supported the creation of The Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy.
Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication
The Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication started functioning from 1988–89 and offers Masters-level courses in Dance, Theatre Arts, Painting and Communication and Doctoral (Ph.D.) programmes in Communication, Theatre Arts, and Dance.
1) Department of Dance 2) Department of Performing Arts 3) Department of Fine Arts 4) Department of Communication
Indira Gandhi Memorial Library
The University Library is a central facility to support teaching and research activities of the University. The library has a collection of more than three lakhs books & monographs in Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Communication and Management Studies. It subscribes to around 650 periodicals, popular magazines & newspapers in English and Indian languages. The library provides access to over 18,000 full-text e-journals from several publishers. All the in-house activities of the library are fully automated by using VTLS-Virtua LMS, including a web OPAC.
Student activities
There are a total of 17 hostels (10 for men and 7 for women) for students to stay in. There is a shopping complex, along with two other canteens inside the campus for students. A health care center is active in the campus for the needs of students.
DST auditorium for seminar and showing films. There is also an active students union which acts as a forum for students to raise their issues with the administration.
Extracurricular activities
A number of cultural activities are held throughout the year on the campus, some of which are held by the University Authorities, and the rest of which are held by the students themselves. Sukoon is an annual cultural festival where students from colleges all over Hyderabad are invited to participate. Annual sports competitions are held in various disciplines. Festivals like Diwali, Dussera, Ramzan, Easter, christmas and other regional specific festivals are celebrated by various student communities.
The university has 3 guest houses. Namely Visiting scholars, Lakeview and Jubilee Guest houses provides varies forms of accommodation.
See also
- List of universities in India
- Universities and colleges in India
- Education in India
- Distance Education Council
- University Grants Commission (India)
- Bhartendu Academy of Dramatic Arts(BNA)
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/humanities/mission_english.html
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/humanities/mission_philosophy.html
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/humanities/Raghuramaraju_A.html
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/humanities/mission_hindi.html
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/humanities/mission_telugu.html
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/humanities/faculty_translation_studies.html
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/humanities/mission_comparative_literature.html
- ^ http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/social_sciences/mission_political_science.html
Department of Communication: http://snscomm.uohyd.ernet.in/comm/
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