Assam University
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আসাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, শিলচর आसाम बुहुमफरायसालि, सिलसर | |
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1994 |
| Chancellor | Gulzar[1] |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Ranju R. Dhamala[2] |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | www |
Assam University (Bengali: আসাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) (Template:Bodo: आसाम बुहुमफरायसालि)) is a teaching-cum-affiliating Central University. The history of Assam University is the history of people's struggle in Barak Valley . The "Saheed Minar" situated near the entrance of the university commemorates the history of Bengali language movement (বাংলা ভাষা আন্দোলন) of this valley.[3] The university has sixteen schools which offer Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Information Sciences, Technology and Management Studies. There are 35 departments under these sixteen schools. The five districts under the jurisdiction of Assam University have 56 undergraduate colleges. Assam University is an institutional signatory to the Global Universities Network for Innovation (GUNI), Barcelona and United Nations Global Compact(UNGC) for its commitment to educational social responsibilities.
The main campus, in an area of 600 acres (2.4 km2), is located at Dargakona, near Airongmara about 20 km from Silchar, while a second campus of the university is at Diphu, in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam.
Schools and Departments
The major teaching schools of the university along with the departments under them are:[4]
Abanindranath Tagore School of Creative Arts and Communication Studies
- Department of Mass Communication
- Department of Visual Arts
Hargobind Khurana School of Life Sciences
- Department of Life Science & Bioinformatics
- Department of Biotechnology
- Department of Microbiology
Shushrutu School of Medical and Paramedical Sciences
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
E. P Odam School of Environmental Sciences
- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan School of Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Jawaharlal Nehru School of Management
- Department of Business Administration
Albert Einstein School of Physical Science
- Department of Computer Science(DCS): Offers 5 Years Integrated M.S in Computer Science since 1997.
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Mathematics
Rabindranath Tagore School of Indian Languages and Cultural Studies
- Department of Bengali
- Department of Hindi
- Department of Manipuri
- Department of Sanskrit
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Assamese
Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay School of English and Foreign Language Studies
- Department of English
- Department of Arabic
- Department of French
Mahatma Gandhi School of Economics and Commerce
- Department of Economics
- Department of Commerce
Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay School of Education
- Department of Educational Science
Jadunath Sarkar School of Social Sciences
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of History
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Social Work
- Department of Sociology
Aryabhatta School of Earth Sciences
Swami Vivekananda School of Library Sciences
- Department of Library & Information Science
Deshabandhu Chittaranjan School of Legal Studies
- Department of Law
Triguna Sen School of Technology
- Department of Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
- Department of Computer Science Engineering [5]
Academic collaboration
- Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
- Nihon University, Japan
- University of Montreal, Canada
- Jiao Tong University, China
- Nantes University, France
- University of Kobe, Japan
- Dhaka University, Bangladesh
- Chittagong University, Bangladesh
- Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
- Jagannath University, Bangladesh
- Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
See also
References
- ^ "Lyricist-writer Gulzar appointed chancellor of Assam University". Mumbai: India Today. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Assam University". Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ^ "Assam University". Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "IT_Home". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
External links
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