Assam University
 Seal of Assam University | |
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1994 |
| Chancellor | Gulzar[1] |
| Vice-Chancellor | Dilip Chandra Nath[2] |
| Location | Silchar, Assam, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Sports | Football,Cricket etc |
| Website |
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Assam University 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 Irongmara about 20 km from Silchar, while a second campus of the university is at Diphu, in the East 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
Albert Einstein School of Physical Science
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Computer Science
Aryabhatta School of Earth Sciences
Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay School of Education
- Department of Educational Science
Deshabandhu Chittaranjan School of Legal Studies
- Department of Law
E. P. Odam School of Environmental Sciences
- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Hargobind Khurana School of Life Sciences
- Department of Life Science & Bioinformatics
- Department of Biotechnology
- Department of Microbiology
Jadunath Sarkar School of Social Sciences
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of History
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Social Work
- Department of Sociology
Jawaharlal Nehru School of Management Studies
- Department of Business Administration
Mahatma Gandhi School of Economics and Commerce
- Department of Economics
- Department of Commerce
Rabindranath Tagore School of Indian Languages and Cultural Studies
- Department of Bengali
- Department of Hindi
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Manipuri
- Department of Sanskrit
- Department of Assamese (in Diphu Campus)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan School of Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Shushrutu School of Medical and Paramedical Sciences
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay School of English and Foreign Language Studies
- Department of English
- Department of Arabic
- Department of French
- Department of Urdu
Swami Vivekananda School of Library Sciences
- Department of Library & Information Science
Triguna Sen School of Technology
- Department of Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering [5] (Formerly Department of Information Technology)
Academic collaboration
- University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
- Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
- Nihon University, Japan
- University of Montreal, Canada
- Jiao Tong University, China
- Utkal University Odisha
- Nantes University, France
- University of Kobe, Japan
- University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
- Jagannath University, Bangladesh
Affiliated colleges
All the colleges in the 5 districts of South Assam, viz, Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi, North Cachar Hills or Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong district fall within university's jurisdiction. Till the year 2013 there were 50 colleges which include Degree colleges, a Medical college, a few Law colleges and Teachers' Training colleges. This is a list of colleges affiliated with Assam University.[6][7]
- Srikishan Sarda College. Hailakandi
- Janata College.Kabuganj
- Borkhola College, Borkhola
- Cachar College, Silchar
- Diphu Government College, Diphu
- Karimganj College, Karimganj
- Gurucharan College, Silchar
- Radhamadhab College, Silchar
- Silchar Medical College and Hospital
- Women's College, Silchar
- Lala Rural College, Lala
- Santosh Kumar Roy College, Katlicherra
References
- ↑ "Lyricist-writer Gulzar appointed chancellor of Assam University". Mumbai: India Today. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
- ↑ "Assam University". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Assam University". Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ↑
- ↑ "IT_Home". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ↑ "Directorate of Higher Education, Assam - Provincialised Colleges affiliated to Assam University". Dheassam.gov.in. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ↑ "List of Provincialised Colleges affiliated to Assam University, Silchar". Silchartoday.com. 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
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