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Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University is a technical university, located outside

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city in the

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of the Indian

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of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a

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that is regulated by the University Grants Commission, and a member of the

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. The vice-chancellor, Jawaid Iqbal, was appointed in November 2024.

History

Legislation to establish the university was passed in 2002 by the

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, and the university was in full operation by 2005, led by the founding vice-chancellor Masud Choudhary. It is named for the

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Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah, whose shrine is located in Shahadra Sharief, a village close by in

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. The shrine made a one-off donation of

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to help fund the construction and establishment of the university, and, as of 2012, donates rupees per year in ongoing funding. In 2020, the university received a band A ranking in the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) exercise carried out by India's

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. In 2021, it was ranked 35th in the India Today-MDRA Best Universities Survey in the government university category.

Students, staff and courses

In the 2022-23 academic year, the university had 2,294 students, 155 teaching staff, and 254 sanctioned posts. According to the university's website, it offers courses in

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

, mathematics, engineering, bioscience, nursing, business management,

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, education, tourism, and languages including Arabic. In addition to a number of diplomas, the university awards

B.A. A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree ...

, M.A.,

B.Sc. A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

, M.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed., BBA,

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, B.Tech., B.Voc, and M.Phil. degrees. The university also accepts Ph.D. students, and awarded 25 Ph.D. degrees in 2022-23.

References

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