University of Mumbai
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मुंबई विद्यापीठ University of Mumbai University of Mumbai |
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| motto | शीलष्टतफला विद्या ( Sanskrit : "The fruit of learning is character and righteous behavior" ) |
| founding | July 18, 1857 (as University of Bombay ), renamed in 1996 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Mumbai , Maharashtra , India |
| Chancellor ( chancellor ) | the respective governor of Maharashtra |
| Website | www.mu.ac.in |
The University of Mumbai (abbreviated UoM or MU ; Marathi : मुंबई विद्यापीठ , Hindi : मुंबई विश्वविद्यालय ) is a state university based in Mumbai . The university is spread over various locations in Mumbai, Thane , Raigad , Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg . Academic degrees are awarded to around 1,100 students each year. The university also includes world-famous research institutes such as the Mumbai Institute of Chemical Technology , the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Tata Memorial Hospital . The university is one of the oldest in India . The university has over 500,000 students through its affiliated colleges. The governor of Maharashtra State is formally the President of the University (Chancellor). The administration of the university is incumbent on the Vice-Chancellor, Rajan M. Welukar. The Aakash was developed at the university .
history
The university was founded in 1857 as the University of Bombay in what was then British India on the model of British universities. It is one of the three oldest universities in India. In 1858 the Jesuit College of St. Xavier's College was attached to the university. It was given its current name after a government decision on September 4, 1996.
Locations
The university is spread over many locations. The two most important are:
- Fort Campus (the founding site in Mumbai )
- Kalina Campus (in Mumbai ): Mainly social sciences as well as humanities, mathematics and biotechnology are taught here. The Jawaharlal Nehru Library, the largest library in Mumbai, is located on this campus.
Famous Graduates
- Lal Krishna Advani (* 1927), politician
- Shabana Azmi (born 1950), actress
- Jagdish Bhagwati (* 1934), professor of economics at Columbia University
- Lara Dutta (* 1978), Miss Universe in 2000
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement
- Brij Narayan (* 1952), classical musician
- Smita Patil (1955–1986), actress
- Aishwarya Rai (* 1973), Miss World in 1994 and actress
- PV Narasimha Rao (1921-2004), former Prime Minister of India
- Manil Suri (* 1959), mathematician and physicist
- Rafiq Zakaria (1920–2005), politician and Islamic scholar
- Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada (1923-2017), Pakistani politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Logo. (No longer available online.) University of Mumbai, archived from the original on April 21, 2014 ; Retrieved April 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ University of Mumbai: vice chancellor ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
