Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, formerly Agra University, is an Autonomous University located in

Agra Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra i ...

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, India. The university is named after Bhimrao Ambedkar, Indian scholar, social reformer, and the architect of the

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Institute of Engineering and Technology

The Institute of Engineering and Technology Khandari, Agra (I.E.T. Khandari, Agra), situated at the Khandari campus in the city of Agra, was established in 1998 and is the engineering institute of the university.

Institute of Social Sciences

The Institute of Social Sciences (ISS), Agra is situated at Paliwal campus in university premises.

Notable alumni

* Charan Singh, former Prime Minister of India * Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India *

Mulayam Singh Yadav Mulayam Singh Yadav (22 November 1939 – 10 October 2022) was an Indian politician, a socialist figure and the founder of the Samajwadi Party. In the course of his political career spanning more than six decades, he served for three terms as ...

, former CM *

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, Chairperson, Committee on public undertakings *

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, geneticist * Ganesh Prasad Pandey, organic chemist,

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laureate *

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, physical chemist,

laureate * Hridyanath Kunzru, Freedom Fighter, First National Commissioner of

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& first President of the

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. * Javed Agrewala, molecular biologist,

laureate * Manapurathu Verghese George, photochemist,

laureate * Om Dutt Gulati, pharmacologist,

and B. C. Roy laureate * Shyam Sunder Kapoor, nuclear physicist,

laureate * Virendra Singh, theoretical physicist,

laureate * Y. D. Sharma, molecular biologist,

laureate * Gopal Krishna, radio astronomer,

laureate *

Rajendra Yadav Rajendra Yadav (28 August 1929 – 28 October 2013) was a Hindi fiction writer, and a pioneer of the 'Nayi Kahani' movement of Hindi literature. He edited the literary magazine ''HANS'', which was founded by Munshi Premchand in 1930 but ceased ...

, pioneer of the Hindi literary movement * Aziz Qureshi, former governor * Shafiqur Rahman Barq, MP (Uttar pradesh) * Ramakant Yadav, ex-VC of

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* Dev Swarup, VC of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University *

Ram Gopal Yadav Ram Gopal Yadav (born 29 June 1946) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is the Secretary-General of the Samajwadi Party and the Member of Parliament (MP) in Rajya Sabha, since 2008. Yadav also served as Lok Sabha MP of Sambhal from ...

, MP (Rajya Sabha) * Dhatri Saran Mathur, I.C.S and Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court * Devendra Singh Yadav, former MP * Ajit Doval, Current National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, with the precedence of a Cabinet Minister *

H. N. Kunzru Hridya Nath Kunzru (1 October 1887– 3 April 1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and public figure. He was a long-time Parliamentarian, serving in various legislative bodies at the Provincial and Central level for nearly four decades. He was a m ...

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, Indian film actor and politician * Ibn-e-Safi, Urdu-language novelist, author of Jasoosi Duniya series. * Narinder Singh Kapany, Physicist known as 'Father of Fibre Optics', and

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awardee * Rekha Dikshit, former judge of Allahabad High Court

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* {{Authority control Universities in Uttar Pradesh Universities and colleges in Agra Educational institutions established in 1927 1927 establishments in India