Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
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| Motto: | "Satyam Shivam Sundaram" |
| Established: | 1949 |
| Type: | Public |
| Chancellor: | Dr.Mrunalini Devi Puar |
| Vice-Chancellor: | Dr. Manoj Soni |
| Undergraduates: | 28000 (2005) |
| Postgraduates: | 2000 |
| Location: | Baroda, Gujarat, India |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Affiliations: | UGC |
| Website: | www.msubaroda.ac.in |
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, named after Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the former ruler of Baroda, is one of the premier universities of India and the largest university in the city of Baroda in Gujarat, India. It is popularly known as M.S.University (MSU). It is known throughout Asia for the Faculty of Arts & Fine Arts and for research in the areas of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Biotechnology. Originally known as the Baroda College of Science (established 1881), it became a university in 1949 after the independence of the country. It is both a teaching and residential university in the sense that it offers all its courses under a single roof. It is the only university in Gujarat whose medium of instruction is English for all its courses. The university's alumni include Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, IG Patel, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Chimanbhai Patel, the former Chief Minister of Gujarat, and the cricketer Kiran More.
[edit] Faculties
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[edit] Faculty of Fine Arts
The faculty of fine arts is one of the most well recognised and widely respected faculties all over the world, which has produced notable and world renowned artists. It is considered to tbe the crown jewel in the M.S University.
[edit] Faculty of Performing Arts
Classical Music Maharaja Sayajirao Rao Gakewad was also a patron of Indian Classical Music. Ustad Moula Bux, founded the Academy of Indian Music under the patronage of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad. This Academy later became the Music College and is now the Faculty of Performing Arts of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara. Apart from Ustad Moula Bux, Sayajirao’s Court boasted of great artistes like Ustad Inayat Khan and Ustad Faiyyaz Khan. It was during the reign of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad that the first all India Music Conference was held in 1914 in Baroda.
Dance The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda—a city only two hours by train from Ahmedabad—had started the first dance programme in India in 1950. Over the centuries there had been many alliances and marriages between Baroda’s kings and distant princesses. Dancers were often part of the dowry as dancers, poets and musicians were status symbols for the royal courts and maharajas had as many artists as they could afford. In 1880 the Maharani Laksmi Bai(Chimnabai I) of Tanjore was married to Baroda’s Maharaja Sayajirao III Gopalrao Gaekwad, an enlightened prince who after ascending the throne established the Baroda College as one of his first public acts. It was later absorbed into the university that bears his name. Chimnabai I was knowledgeable in Bharatanatyam and carnatic music, and brought a troupe with her, comprising two dancers, two nattuvanars (leaders of Bharatanatyam concerts), and two teachers (Khandwani 2002). Others followed later: nattuvanar Appaswamy and his dancer wife Kantimati, who had studied with Kannusamy and Vadively, two members of the Tanjore Quartet. After the death of Appaswamy in 1939, Kantimati and their son, Kubernath Tanjorkar, left Baroda to teach in Lucknow, and then worked in film in South India until Maharaja Pratap Singhrao Gaekwad called the Tanjorkar family back to Baroda in 1949, to teach in the Music Department in the Palace Kalavan which was later absorbed into the Maharaja Sayajirao University (Gaston 1996: 158-160).So what we have here is a tradition of very distinguished Bharatanatyam dancers and teachers, members of a family considered an offshoot of the Tanjore Quartet bani (stylistic schools; Gaston 1996: 159), already established in Gujarat by the time Mrinalini sets up her own academy. Yet there is a sense that what she did was not new.
[edit] Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts is famous for its educational procedure as well as its GUMBAJ. FACULTY OF ENGLISH: Departmental Library: The Department of English has a library of its own for use by its students and teachers. It is housed in a spacious room having facilities for reading and conference. It has a collection of around 1200 titles representing poetry, fiction and drama, literary criticism and theory, and works on individual authors and texts. The richest sections are on literary criticism and theory, and fiction. Prof. J Birjepatil, who was the Head of the Department of English for many years has gifted to the Departmental library his entire collection of 860 books. The library has also been receiving gifts from the British Council, the USIS as well as from individuals including members of the teaching staff of this Department. The library has also borrowed some important books from the collection of Smt. Hansa Mehta library of the University for use by its teachers and research scholars.
[edit] Faculty of Commerce
The faculty of Commerce have four buildings named MAIN, UNIT, GIRLS, and PG building.It has the largest number of students in the whole university.The enjoyment is as greater as it is oxford university.
[edit] Faculty of Education and Psychology
[edit] Faculty of Family And Community Science
Faculty of Family And Community Science is one of the best faculties of the Maharaja Sayaji Rao University. Mostly its a girls' college but boys can also get admission. You can earn five majors in the Home Science faculty. 1) Foods and Nutrition 2) Human Development and Family Studies 3) Clothing and Textile 4) Home Management 5) Extension and Communication
You can do your B.Sc. (home) degree as well as Post Graduation M.Sc. in any of above major or you can also do your graduation with General Home Science which cover all five majors. The faculties are highly educated and experienced in their field. Majority of faculty have Doctorate Degree in their field. Students graduating from the home science are placed in various good industries.
[edit] Faculty of Social Work
[edit] Faculty of Journalism and Communication
It is an inside joke that the Masters in Communication Studies is what you get for spending your time under Bodhi Tree – just outside the Faculty of Journalism.
[edit] Faculty of Technology and Engineering
The Faculty of Technology and Engineering of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is one of the best engineering schools in the state of Gujarat. It is housed in Kala Bhavan, the building was supposed to be a temporary palace of the Maharaja of Baroda while his palace was being constructed. Hence is it located exactly opposite to the Laxmi Vilas Palace. The Maharaja donated the palace to open the school of engineering.
Founded by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda as the Kalabhavan Technical Institute in the year 1890 AD the Faculty of Technology and Engineering is also popularly recognised as Techo.
The Kala Bhavan started its activity in 1890 with the modest but novel objective of producing skilled artisans and apprentices by imparting instruction in local language in the following fields:
Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering,Drawing and Printing, Architecture and Photo engraving, Textile Chemistry including Dyeing, Bleaching, Sizing & Printing, oil and Soap making etc, With the assistance of German experts and foreign trained teacher under the able stewardship of Principal T. K. Gajjar. Other courses on Textile Technology(weaving), Furniture making and Fine Arts were started later. Principal C. H. Vora consolidated these pioneering efforts into a Polytechnic by starting a variety of Diploma and Certificate courses in the above major disciples, with the additional staff, laboratories and buildings. The Polytechnic status with steady development continued until 1949 when the Kalabhavan was converted into the Faculty of Technology and Engineering (with the establishment of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, following generous donation by the Gaekwads for the University and the New Building of the Institute). From this stage onwards, the Institute developed rapidly recognizing no bounds.
These hectic developments resulting in creation of 15 departments, a workshop, a library and several buildings were possible due to the financial support mainly from UGC and aided by UNDP, USAID and Government agencies and also due to the dedicated efforts by the Institute, Deans and Teachers. Faculty laboratories and departments received massive aid of $1,050,000 for development from the United Nations Development Program(UNDP). The aid was given to develop infrastructure facilities in the area of Fracture Mechanics, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Turbojet propulsion and Microprocessor Applications. In 1986, Post Graduate courses on (i) Fracture Mechanics (ii) Irrigation Water Management (iii) Turbojet Propulsion and (iv) Microprocessor Applications were introduced.
Under USAID program, faculty received a massive grant of Rs. 4 crore from Water Resources Department and Narmada Department of Government of Gujarat for development of undergraduate and postgraduate program of Irrigation Water Management in March 1991. Constant efforts are made to update curriculum, improve teaching, enhance infrastructure and laboratory facilities, promote research and establish linkages with the Society and Industries and above all, emphasis on excellence.
Under the Quality Improvement Program of Department of Electronics – now called Ministry of Information Technology, Department of electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science received electronic equipments, computers and software worth Rs. 200 crores. This project was named as IMPACT project and was for the improvement of laboratory facilities for under graduate degree program. MIT later on partly supported the maintenance of equipments and computers under the sustainability support scheme.
Department of Science and Technology agreed to support to the tune of Rs. 112 lacs to the Pharmacy Department under the MISSION REACH. This project is called TIFAC CORE -- Center of Relevance and Excellence. Under this project, Industrial Partnership is also expected. UGC, under the SAP Program granted DRS – Phase III and COSIST Program to Metallurgical Engineering Department and DRS – Phase I to Pharmacy Department. Pharmacy Department is also likely to become QIP center for M.Pharm. and Ph.D. under AICTE – QIP.
The reputed faculty members leave profound influence by their expertise at the major national & international conferences, seminars and refresher courses and help shape the future trends in technical education. That our Alumni have performed excellently in higher education and in challenging jobs in India and abroad (particularly USA) and have achieved higher key positions, bears testimony to the quality of education imparted. The Institute is always a preferred choice for a student to become and engineer and for the employer to grab its competent engineers for jobs. Thus, it has taken more than a century of dedicated efforts of a few pioneers and visionaries to raise the old KALA BHAVAN to the stature of a mighty technical institute in the forefront of technical education in the service of the nation.
[edit] Department of Architecture
Here is the college provides the architecture course with the lowest fees structure in Asia.Having the Fantastic & Experienced Faculties to teach the students about the architecture. its a 5 year degree course with semester pattern with training in 7 sem. Arc. Uday Shelat is present HOD of architecture. the page edited by ankit darda & mukesh upadhyay http://creative-arch.co.cc
[edit] Faculty of Medicine
[edit] Faculty of Science
BCA Programme:- MSU BCA is a 3 year graduation programme that is focused on developing software professionals. In BCA students are trained for desktop applications as well as web applications on various platforms including Microsoft, Java and Open Source platforms. The programming languages taught include C, C++, JAVA, C#, VB, Prolog etc. The students are also trained to use web technologies including HTML, JavaScript, XML, JSP, ASP, AJAX etc. The BCA curriculum gives detailed coverage to Software Engineering, Computer networking, Database technologies, Mathematical skills, Distributed Computing, Computer graphics, Artificial intelligence, Communication skills and so on. BCA curriculum is continuously updated to incorporate latest technologies. Students are required to undertake a part time project of 3 months in 5th semester and a full time 4 months project in their final semester. Students are also involved in international projects with the universities like, The Penn State University(USA) and The East Carolina University.
Faculty of Law
In Gujarat, after GNLU, Maharaja sayajirao University started five years integrated law course, with a tremendous response in 2005. Faculty of Law was established in 1960s and now it is excellent knowledge of law to its students.
[edit] Department of Biochemistry
The KG Naik Department of Biochemistry was established in 1955, under the Chemistry Department, and was headed by Dr. Ramakrishnan. The Department has a glorious history of being the Center for Nutritional Studies, and a long history of international publications and scientific collaborations.This department is recognised worldwide as one of the premier institutes of India and unarguably the best in Western India for education in the emerging field of Biochemistry. The MSU Department of Biochemistry was awarded an Excellent status in 2006 by FIST a Government of India accreditation agency. The Department is well known for its teaching and now, is slowly emerging as a center of research as well. It imparts Masters Degree courses in Biochemistry & Medical Biotechnology & boasts of very good research facilities with a force of around 50+ Research students working round the clock. The Biochemistry Department offers courses in enzymology, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant biochemistry, endocrinology, clinical biochemistry among others. The Department is also conducting active research in many diverse areas like: Bacterial cooperation, polyketide synthase clusture,antibiotic resistance,Apoptosis, phosphate solubilization, nitrogen fixation,probiotics, heavy metal toxicity,Diabetes, Prostrate Cancer,Female Infertility, Endophytes, magnetoliposomes, protein folding, vitiligo etc.
The alumni of the department have traditionally opted for a PhD and a maximum number of them are doing active research in the best labs of the world, while many do go into the industry and start a professional career early.
[edit] Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology Centre
The Microbiology Department was started in 1964, and since 1985-86, it also offers the M.Sc. Biotechnology Course in addition to the master's course in Microbiology. Biotechnology training programme was started with support from NBTB (DBT) and UGC and continues to be very popular, attracting programme among students from all over the country. The backbone of the department is the intellectual rigor provided by a dedicated faculty and students coming from all across the country. By the year 2003, the department had produced 90 Ph.Ds and a large number of research papers are regularly published in journals of international repute. The alumni of the department now occupy positions of great responsibility in different institutions in India and abroad. The department was funded under DST-FIST I program under which new equipments have been purchased and other infrastructure facilities are being strengthened. In the past department received support from UGC-DRS, UGC-DSA and COSIST programs. The Department has a strong base in Microbial technology and the main focus of the program is on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology and other contemporary areas allied to Microbiology and Biotechnology. Basic training is given in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Genetic Engineering, Biochemical Engineering and some aspects of Biophysics, Biostatistics, Environmental Biology. The broad areas of research in which the department is engaged Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering Microbiology Bioprocess Engineering Immunology, Biophysics
[edit] The Department of Economics
The Department of Economics in the Arts Faculty has given birth to some of the finest economists of the country like Dr. Ravindra Dholakia, Dr. Bakul Dholakia. Upon entering the Department there is the whole list of the PhD holders and most of them are at the top positions academically.
The Geography Department is the biggest department in Gujarat. It has all the facilities and has a museum too. The Department of Archaeology has some of the oldest historic objects and have a very big museum.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar,[citation needed]
- Sam Pitroda
- Dr. Bakul Dholakia, Director, IIM Ahmedabad( 2002 - 2007 )
- Mukul Agarwal, MD, Unisys-India
- Rajiv C Mody, Founder Chairman and CEO, Sasken
- Dr. Madhu Mehta, Chief Architect, NirmaLabs
- Dr. Sunil Antani Ex- Vice Chairman, MBNA
- Dr. Anant Agarwal, Founder VP, Sun Microsystems
- Hiten Varia, VP, I2 Technology
- Niru Mehta, Vice Chairman & MD, Avaya GlobalConnect Ltd & MD & VP, Avaya India
- Ajay Shah, President & CEO, SMART Modular Technologies & Managing Partner, Shah Capital Partners
- Amit Shah, V.C., Artiman Ventures
- Vijay P. Bhatkar, Architect of PARAM Supercomputers
- Chinmaya Gharekhan, United Nations Under-Secretary General
- Nagji Patel, World renowned sculptor.
- Vandan S. Naik
- Dhruva Mistry ( world renowned sculptor and artist - known to be the one of the most prominent Contemporary Artist)
- Dr. Divyesh Mehta, Chief Oncology, University of Illinois, Chicago
- H K Desai, Chairman, Qlogic(Nasdaq:QLGC)
- Hargovind Mewada, The Architect of Gandhinagar (Capital city of Gujarat State)
- Shri Amarsinh Chaudhari, Ex-Chief Minister of Gujarat
- Dr. S. K. Khanna, Ex-Chairman AICTE, Ex- Secratory UGC
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[edit] External links
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