The University of Mumbai is a
collegiate,
state-owned
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,
public
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research university in
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...
.
The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges.
Ratan Tata
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is the appointed head of the advisory council.
History
In accordance with "
Wood's despatch", drafted by
Sir Charles Wood in 1854, the University of Bombay was established in 1857 after the presentation of a petition from the Bombay Association to the British colonial government in India.
The University of Mumbai was modelled on similar universities in the
United Kingdom
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, specifically the
University of London.
The first departments established were the Faculty of Arts at
Elphinstone College
Elphinstone College is one of the constituent colleges of Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, a state cluster university. Established in 1823, it is one of the oldest colleges in Mumbai. It played a major role in shaping and developing the ed ...
in 1835 and the Faculty of Medicine at
Grant Medical College
The Grant Government Medical College, Mumbai, is a public medical college, affiliated to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. Founded in 1845, it is one of the oldest institutions teaching medicine in South Asia.
Its clinical affil ...
in 1845.
Both colleges existed before the university was founded and surrendered their degree-granting privileges to the university. The first degrees awarded in 1862 were
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...
and
Licentiate in Medicine.
Medical schools such as Sindh Medical School in
Hyderabad, Sindh were affiliated with the university as well.
Cornelia Sorabji, who later studied law at
Somerville College becoming
Oxford
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's first female law student and India's first female
advocate, was the university's first female graduate in 1888.
Until 1904, the university only conducted examinations, awarded affiliations to colleges, developed curricula, and produced guidelines for colleges developing curricula.
Teaching departments, research disciplines, and post-graduate courses were introduced from 1904, and several additional departments were established. After India achieved independence in 1947, the functions and powers of the university were reorganized under The Bombay University Act of 1953. The name of the university was changed from University of Bombay to University of Mumbai in 1996.
In 1949, student enrolment was 42,272 with 80 affiliated colleges. By 1975, these numbers had grown to 156,190 and 114 respectively.
Kalina Campus
Examination processes were made more efficient by the introduction of online delivery of question papers for examinations, and assessment of answer books by scanning at remote examination centres. The academic depository of the university was started in collaboration with CDSL in 2015. The university is the first university in the country to start an academic depository.
* Jawaharlal Nehru Library
*
Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies (ADMI) which offers BMS, MFSM, MS Finance & MMS programmes
Library
Rajabai Clock Tower
One of Mumbai's landmarks, the
Rajabai Clock Tower
The Rajabai Tower is a clock tower in South Mumbai India. It is in the confines of the Fort campus of the University of Mumbai. It stands at a height of 85 m (280 ft or 25 storeys).
The tower is part of The Victorian and Art Deco Ense ...
, was completed in the 1870s and houses the University of Mumbai's library. Sir
George Gilbert Scott modeled the Rajabai Clock Tower on the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster in
London
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. Local businessman
Premchand Roychand contributed to the cost of construction and named the tower in memory of his mother, Rajabai. The tower is tall and has five storeys. At a height of from the ground, there are eight statues representing the Indian castes. The tower clock is reported to have played 16 tunes including "
Rule Britannia", "
God Save the Queen", "
Home! Sweet Home!" and "A Handel Symphony". On the initiative of the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Rajan Welukar, the first phase of restoration of Rajabai Clock Tower started in 2013 and was completed in May 2015. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) gave a Rs 4 crore grant for this phase of the restoration project.
Convocation Hall
Affiliated colleges
Its jurisdiction extends over 7 districts -
Mumbai City district,
Mumbai Suburban district, Palghar,Raigad,Ratnagiri,Sindhudurg,Thane .
Prominent institutes
Several departments of the University of Mumbai are a part of vocational institutions and are not located on the four Mumbai campuses. These include the departments of Medicine and Medical Research located in many prominent hospitals in Mumbai, such as the
Tata Memorial Hospital,
Bombay Hospital and
G.S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital. The Department of Medicine at
Tata Memorial Hospital is now affiliated to the
Homi Bhabha National Institute
The Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) is an Indian deemed university established by the Department of Atomic Energy, which unifies academic programmes of several of its constituent institutions. Deemed universities in India have been divid ...
.
Institute of Chemical Technology (then known as the University Department of Chemical Technology, UDCT), was originally a department of MU, which later gained the status of a university.
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, then known as the Victorial Jubilee Technical Institute, founded in 1887, was the first Engineering Institute of the University of Mumbai.
Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
Thadomal Shahani Engineering College (TSEC) is a private engineering college in Mumbai, India. Founded in 1983, it is the first and the oldest private engineering institute affiliated with the University of Mumbai.
TSEC was founded by the Hyd ...
was the first Engineering college in the University of Mumbai to start courses in
Computer Engineering,
Information Technology
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,
Electronics Engineering and
Biomedical Engineering
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.
Libraries
Jawaharlal Nehru Library (JNL) is the central library, located on the campus at Kalina. As of May 2019, it desperately needs restoration.
Vice-Chancellors
*
John Wilson – 1857
*
Raymond West
Sir Raymond West (18 September 1832 in County Kerry, Ireland – 8 September 1912) was a barrister King's Inns Dublin 1871, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Bombay, 1873–87; President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, ...
*
Alexander Kinloch Forbes
*
Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet – 1863–1868
*
William Guyer Hunter – 1869
*
Herbert Mills Birdwood
Herbert Mills Birdwood LLD (29 May 1837 – 21 February 1907) was an Anglo-Indian judge and administrator. He was the acting governor of Bombay from 16 February 1895 to 18 February 1895. He was also a naturalist and botanist who documented th ...
* Rev
Dugald Mackichan – 1888-91
*
Kashinath Trimbak Telang – 1892–1893
*
Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar – 1893–1894
*
N. G. Chandavarkar – 1911−1912
* John Heaton – 1912–1915
*
Pherozeshah Mehta
Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915) was an Indian politician and lawyer from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay ...
– 1915
* Sir Leslie Orme Wilson (Chancellor) - 1927
* Mirza Akbar Khan – 1930–31
*
R. P. Paranjpe – 1934
* Sir Rustom Pestonji Masani - 1941
*
Pandurang Vaman Kane
Pandurang Vaman Kane (pronounced ''Kaa-nay'') (7 May 1880 – 18 April 1972) was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He received India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1963 for his scholarly work that spanned more than 40 years ...
*
John Matthai – 1955–1957
*
V. R. Khanolkar – 1960–1963
* Shashikant Karnik
*
Trimbak Krishna Tope – 1971–1977
*
M. D. Bengalee – 1986-1992
*
Snehlata Deshmukh – 1995–2000
*
Bhalchandra Mungekar
Bhalchandra Laxman Mungekar (born 2 March 1946) is an Indian economist, educationist, Social worker and Rajya Sabha member. He specialises in agricultural economics and is an expert on B. R. Ambedkar.
Early life
Mungekar was born in Munge vill ...
– 2000–2005
* Vijay Khole – 2005 – September 2009
* Chandra Krishnamurthy – September 2009–July 2010, Acting Vice-Chancellor
* Suhas Pednekar - August 2010 - September 2010, Acting Vice-Chancellor
* Rajan Welukar – October 2010 – July 2015
* Sanjay V. Deshmukh – July 2015 – October 2017
* Suhas Pednekar - April 2018 − Present
Notable alumni
Ranking
Internationally, the University of Mumbai ranked 801–1000 by the ''
QS World University Rankings
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'' in 2020,
[ 177 in Asia in 2020][ and 89 among ]BRICS
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nations in 2019.[
The ]National Institutional Ranking Framework
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(NIRF) ranked it 65th among universities in India in 2020.[
]
Partner universities
Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with University of Amsterdam, University of Bath, Liverpool Hope University, Toronto Metropolitan University, IESEG School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology
The Tianjin University of Technology () is a municipal public university in Tianjin, China. The university is founded in 1981.
As an engineering based multi-discipline university, the university now has over 16,000 students, 988 teaching f ...
, Tianjin University, Nankai University in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
and Edith Cowan University in Australia.
See also
* List of universities in India
* Universities and colleges in India
* Education in India
References
External links
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University of Mumbai alumni
Recipients of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy