Pune University was earlier known as the University of Poona. This university is in Ahmednagagr and Nasik districts, besides the Pune jurisdiction.
The Pune University offers art facilities with an assortment of academic programs.
This university was founded in 1948 by the Bombay legislature. Shri B.G. Kher was the then chief minister as well as education minister who allocated land for this esteem campus.
Initially, the jurisdiction extended to western Maharashtra 12 districts. Conversely, in 1964, the Shivaji University was restricted to Ahmednagar, Pune, Jalgaon, Dhule and Nashik. Later, in 1990 Jalgaon and Dhule districts are associated to the North Maharashtra University.
Educational Streams
Pune University offers a suitable atmosphere to continue research in diverse areas of arts, languages, science and commerce. This university is featured with 40 departments offering a series of academic programs.
This university has an eminent place in several areas of teaching and research that they strive to accomplish excellence. This university is popular for its research activities and is facilitated with nearly 70 research institutions.
The institutions namely, the National Chemical Laboratory, Gokhale Institute of economics and politics, Inter University centre for astrophysics and astronomy, Indian statistical Institute and Documentation Research as well as training centre are some of the well recognized institutions.
Facilities
The facilities of this university include hostel facilities to boys and girls. The students are offered hostel on merit basis and the key factor for availing seats in each department is due to its size. The library is full fledged as it has over 4.2 lakh books, study material and periodicals.
Faculties
The faculties available are as courses computing, arts, biotechnology, chemistry, economics, botany, Sanskrit, electronics, English, law, management sciences, physics, psychology, and many more.
Affiliations
This university has 18 colleges affiliated with 8000 students in 1949. The colleges increased by 2004 and had 46 graduate departments with 118 recognized institutions, 269 affiliated colleges enrolling 170,000 students for graduate and undergraduate courses. |
