University of Mumbai

University of Mumbai
मुंबई विद्यापीठ
Motto Sanskrit: शीलवृतफला विद्या
Motto in English
 "The Fruit of Learning is Good Character and Righteous Conduct"
Type Public
Established 18 July 1857 (1857-07-18)
Chancellor C. Vidyasagar Rao
Vice-Chancellor Sanjay Deshmukh (July 2015 – present)
Dean Suresh Ukarande
Location Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Campus Urban
Founder John Wilson
Affiliations UGC, NAAC, AIU
Website mu.ac.in

The University of Mumbai, also known as MU, is one of the first state universities of India and the oldest in Maharashtra.

The University of Mumbai offers Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral courses, as well as diplomas and certificates in many disciplines. The language of instruction for most courses is English. The University of Mumbai has three campuses across Mumbai (Kalina Campus, Thane Sub Campus and Fort Campus) and one outside Mumbai. The Fort campus carries out administrative work only. Several institutes in Mumbai previously affiliated to the university are now autonomous institutes or universities. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. In 2011, the total number of enrolled students was 549,432.[1] The University of Mumbai currently has 711 affiliated colleges.[2]

History

The University's administration building with the Bombay Stock Exchange in the background

In accordance with "Wood's despatch", drafted by Sir Charles Wood in 1854, The University of Mumbai was established in 1857 after presentation of a petition from the Bombay Association to the British government of India.[3] The University of Mumbai was modeled on similar universities in the United Kingdom, specifically the University of London.[3]:188

The first departments established were the Faculty of Arts at Elphinstone College in 1835 and the Faculty of Medicine at Grant Medical College in 1845.[3] 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 and Licentiate in Medicine.[3]

Initially, the Town Hall in Mumbai was used as the university's offices.

Until 1904, the university only conducted examinations, awarded affiliations to colleges, developed curricula and produced guidelines for colleges developing curricula.[3] 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 re-organised under The Bombay University Act of 1953. [4] The name of the University was changed from University of Bombay to University of Mumbai in 1996.[5]

In 1949, student enrolment was 42,272 with 80 affiliated colleges. By 1975, these numbers had grown to 156,190 and 114 respectively.[3]

Campuses

Completed Rajabai Tower and University Hall, circa 1905.

Kalina Campus

The Kalina campus in suburban Mumbai covers an area of 93 hectares (230 acres) and houses graduate training and research centres. Departments offering courses in the sciences, technology, commerce, and humanities are located here. Most colleges of engineering and medicine affiliated to the University of Mumbai, though, are privately owned. The university does not have its own engineering or medicine departments.

Centres and institutes located in the Kalina Campus include;

Thane Campus

The Thane Campus, established in 2014, spans an area of 2.4 ha (6 acres) and is a modern, 2-storey complex. It houses administrative offices, the School of Law, University of Mumbai and also undertakes management courses.

Fort Campus

The University of Bombay was established in 1857 at the Fort campus, which is located near the southern end of Mumbai. It houses the administrative division of the university on a 5.3 ha (13 acres) site. It has 116,000 m2 (1.25×10^6 sq ft) of built-up area, 2,000 m2 (22,000 sq ft) of classrooms, and 7,800 m2 (84,000 sq ft) of laboratory space. There are 2 post-graduate centres, 354 affiliated colleges, and 36 departments. It is built in the Gothic style and the Rajabai Clock Tower stands on the lawns of the campus.

Rajabai Clock Tower

Rajabai Clock Tower

One of Mumbai's landmarks, the Rajabai Clock Tower 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.[8] Local businessman Premchand Roychand contributed to the cost of construction and named the tower in memory of his mother, Rajabai. The tower is 85 m (280 ft) tall and has five storeys. At a height of 9.1 m (30 ft) from the ground, there are eight statues representing the Indian castes. The tower clock is reported to have played 16 tunes including Rule, Britannia. 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.[9]

Ratnagiri Campus

This minor campus, running mostly extramural courses, is located in the town of Ratnagiri.

Prominent institutes

Institute of Chemical Technology
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute Mumbai

Several departments of the University of Mumbai are located away from the three Mumbai campuses. These include the departments of Medicine and Medical Research located in several prominent hospitals in Mumbai, such as the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay Hospital and G.S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital. The Institute of Chemical Technology, then known as the UDCT, was originally an institution of MU, but later gained university status.[10] Tata Memorial Hospital is now affiliated to the Homi Bhabha National Institute.

Similarly, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute was the first Engineering Institute in the University of Mumbai (1887)[11] and Thadomal Shahani Engineering College was the first Engineering college in the University of Mumbai to start courses in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.[12]

In the School of Law, the Government Law College, Mumbai remains the most prominent institute since the university's inception.

The Institute of Chemical Technology was ranked 4th in the world for research in Chemical Engineering by professor Jude Sommerfeld of Georgia Institute of Technology, United States in 2014 for a 5-year period.[13] It was a university department until it achieved university status.

The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies is consistently ranked among the top 10 management institutes of India and was established in the year 1965 in collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business of Stanford University.[14]

Libraries

Jawaharlal Nehru Library

The library
Central Hall

Jawaharlal Nehru Library (JNL) is the central library, located on the campus at Kalina.

The technology and applied research journals and books of the University of Mumbai are kept in the libraries of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Tata Memorial Hospital.

Faculties and departments

The University of Mumbai has several hundred affiliated colleges offering undergraduate and post-graduate education, and conducting research in areas of science, commerce, arts, engineering, management, law, etc. Each college has its own campus and specialized departments/centres.

Areas of education and research are summarized in the table below:

Faculty Departments / Centres / Institutes
Management[15]
Arts[16]
  • Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension
  • Centre for Disaster Management
  • Comparative Literature
  • Classics
  • Education
  • Fine Arts
  • Film & Media Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Library and Information Science
  • Language, Linguistics and Literature
  • Management Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Social & Cultural Analysis
Social Science
  • Department of Anthropology
  • Department of Applied Psychology
  • Department of African Studies
  • Department of Bioethics
  • Department of Creative Writing
  • Department of Communication and Journalism
  • Department of Civics & Politics
  • Department of Demography
  • Department of Public Administration
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Eurasian Studies
  • Department of Geography
  • Department of History
  • Department of Sociology
Commerce[17]
  • Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute of Investment studies
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of Business Administration (International Business, HRM)
Law[18]
Science[19]
Engineering / Technology
Sports[20]
  • Physical Education
  • Department of Physical Education and Sports Pavilion
Institutes & Centers[21]
  • Academy for Administrative Careers
  • Center for Cultural Studies
  • Center for Development Studies
  • Centre for Extramural Studies
  • Center for Healthcare Management
  • Center for Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
  • Department of Student Welfare (Vidyapeeth Vidyarthi Bhavan)
  • Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belongings ("CoHaB")
  • Dr Ambedkar Centre for Social Justice
  • Film and Media Academy
  • Garware Institute of Career Education and Development
  • Gurudev Tagore Chair of Computer Literature
  • Indo-Canadian Studies Centre
  • Institute of Modern Language
  • Institute of Science (managed by the state Government of Maharashtra)
  • Institute of Social and Economic Research
  • UGC Academic Staff College
  • Western Regional Instrumentation Centre

Vice-Chancellors

Notable alumni

Politics and public life

Science

Academia

Arts

Beauty Pageant Winners

Business

Journalism

Law

Religion

Sport

Miscellaneous

Partner universities

Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with University of Amsterdam, University of Bath, Liverpool Hope University, Ryerson University, IESEG School of Management, Kühne Logistics University, Tianjin University of Technology, Nankai University in China and Edith Cowan University in Australia.[27]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mumbai University records 60% rise in students" : DNA – Daily News and Analysis newspaper article, Monday, 21 March 2011.
  2. ↑ With 811 colleges, Pune varsity 2nd largest in country The Times of India newspaper article : 4 November 2013
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aroon Tikekar (2006). The Cloister's Pale: A Biography of the University of Mumbai (2nd ed.). Mumbai: Popular Prakashan. ISBN 81-7991-293-0.
  4. ↑ Ṭikekara, Aroon (2006). The Cloisters Pale (2nd ed.). Mumbai: Popular Prakashan. p. 327. ISBN 817991293-0.
  5. ↑ Government of Maharashtra Gazette 4 September 1996
  6. ↑ https://www.cdslindia.com/downloads/PR%20%20UoM%20launch%20v1.1.pdf
  7. ↑ "Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute". Mu.ac.in. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
  8. ↑ "Rajabai Tower Mumbai: Tourist Attractions in Mumbai". Mumbailocal.Net.
  9. ↑ "Mumbai's iconic Rajabai Clock Tower reopens after renovation".
  10. ↑ http://www.ictmumbai.edu.in/DirectorMessage.aspx
  11. ↑ http://www.dte.org.in/approvedinstitues/StaticPages/frmInstituteSummary.aspx?InstituteCode=3012
  12. ↑ http://www.dtemaharashtra.gov.in/approvedinstitues/staticpages/frmInstituteSummary.aspx?InstituteCode=3182
  13. ↑ http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/ict-ranked-4th-in-research-standards-111052900075_1.html
  14. ↑ Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
  15. ↑
  16. ↑ http://www.mu.ac.in/faculties_arts.html
  17. ↑ http://www.mu.ac.in/facultiesofcommerce.html
  18. ↑ http://www.mu.ac.in/facultiesoflaw.html
  19. ↑ http://www.mu.ac.in/facultiesofscience.html
  20. ↑ http://www.mu.ac.in/faculties_sports.html
  21. ↑ http://www.mu.ac.in/facultiesofothers.html
  22. ↑ http://mu.ac.in/portal/honble-vice-chancellor/
  23. ↑ "Dr. mohammad ali Reza Khan". The Daily Star. Dhaka. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  24. ↑ Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian cinema – Bāpū Vāṭave, National Book Trust – Google Books. Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 17 November 2012
  25. ↑ Spain India Council Foundation future Indian leaders
  26. ↑ An Interview with Capt.Samarth Singh
  27. ↑ "'Indian students should consider studying in China'". Hindustan Times. 29 November 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
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