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| University of Mumbai, Maharashtra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MG Road, Mumbai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maharashtra - 400032 India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website : http://www.mu.ac.in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Contact Number : +91-22-22652819, 22652825, 22656789, 22702344 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fax Number : +91-22-22652832, 22634461, 27673579 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NAAC Rating : Five Star | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
University Profile
University of Mumbai, more popular as MumbaiUniversity is one of the top notch Universities in India. It is formerly called University of Bombay. The name of the University has been changed from 'University of Bombay' to 'University of Mumbai' as per the Government Gazette dated 4th September, 1996. It was established in 1857 consequent upon "Wood's Education Dispatch", and it is one amongst the first three Universities in India. Initially, the University concentrated its efforts on controlling teaching at the undergraduate level and in conducting examinations. Later on it took up research and the task of imparting instructions at the Post-Graduate level.
University of Mumbai has two campuses of area 230 acres and 13 acres, with 1.25 million square feet of built-up area, 22 thousand sq. feet of class-rooms and 84 thousand sq feet of laboratory space. It has two post-graduate centers, 354 affiliated colleges and 36 Departments. It has established its name in industrial collaborations and runs various professional courses.
At national level, it has excelled in sports, cultural and out-reaches activities. In the last five years it has seen 104% increase in under-graduate students, 112% increase in post-graduate students and 147% increase in distance - education students. There is 156% increase in the number of research papers published in International journals. It is now granted a Five Star status by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
Departments
Library
The University of Mumbai (Bombay) was established in 1857. In August, 1864, Premchand Roychand, a merchant prince of Bombay, offered to the University a donation of Rs. 2,00,000 "towards the erection of a university library which may be an ornament to the city, and by becoming a storehouse of t he learned works, not only of the past but of many generations to come, may be the means of promoting the high ends of the University."
The library is particularly rich in various reference materials, bibliographical tools, books on Mathematics, the Social Sciences and Indology. It has also a valuable and rare collection of back files of periodicals in Sciences, the Social Sciences and Indology. The library possesses more than 1,190 Mss. in Arabic, Persian and Urdu and about 7,418 in Sanskrit and allied languages.
The University Library and Rajabai Clock Tower above it is Unique among the building which enhances the beauty of the first city in India. Raising to a height of 280 feet it catches the eyes of visitors as one of the most attractive architectural features of Mumbai. The ground floor has 2 side rooms, each measuring 56 feet x 27.5 feet and a staircase vestibule 28 feet square. The RajabaiTower forms a carriage porch 26 feet square in front of the building. The Tower, over the carriage porch, has a square form up to the gallery at the top of the first stage which is at a height of 68 feet from the ground The form changes from a square to an octagon and the height from this gallery to the top of the tower is 118 feet and the third stage to the top of the finial is 94 feet, thus making a total height of 280 feet.
Collections
Books : 6,99,321
Theses & dissertation : 20,000
Periodicals : 12,000
Manuscripts : 15,000
Microforms : 2,000
Students Hostels
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