Shivaji University
One of the internationally reputed, highly glamorous, and top universities in maharashtra, is the Shivaji University, a teaching-cum-affiliating university. Established in the year 1962, this giant university ranks among the top 50 public universities of India, and has been recognized under the section 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC, and re-accredited with grade 'B' by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) in 2009. Extensive and affluent campus of this shivaji university india, is well-established over an area of about 850 acres at Vidyanagar, Kolhapur. At present, about 280 colleges and institutes located in the districts of Kolhapur, Satara, and Sangli, are affiliated by this veteran and responsible university. Along with being an active and respected member of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), this one of the leading universities of Maharashtra has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with many reputed Indian and foreign institutes and universities, to provide and promote international quality and cutting-edge education and research in the below-mentioned disciplines. The most prominent foreign universities with which it has established MoU, are located in the countries of Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, Taiwan, Brazil, and other countries. High and noble objectives and ambitions of this shivaji university of Maharashtra are, to provide world-class education, especially at postgraduate level; to nurture highly innovative and cutting-edge researches; to bring up highly qualified and punctilious professionals and managers; to boost industrial, social, and economic progress and uplift of Maharashtra; and thus, contribute to well-rounded human resource development and economic progress of the nation.
The major and lavish academic faculties and departments of this magnificent shivaji university of Maharashtra, are the following:
- Faculty of Arts --- Department of English; Department of Foreign Language; Department of Hindi; Department of Marathi
- Faculty of Commerce --- Department of Commerce and Management; Department of Commerce and Management - M.B.A. Unit
- Faculty of Education --- Department of Adult and Continuing Education; Department of Education; Department of Sports
- Faculty of Engineering & Technology --- Department of Technology; School of Nano-science and Technology
- Faculty of Fine Arts --- Department of Music and Dramatics
- Faculty of Law --- Department of Law
- Faculty of Science --- Department of Agrochemicals & Pest Management; Department of Applied Chemistry; Department of Bio-Chemistry; Department of Biotechnology; Department of Botany; Department of Chemistry; Department of Computer Science; Department of Electronics; Department of Environment Science; Department of Food Science & Technology; Department of Geography; Department of Industrial Chemistry; Department of Mathematics; Department of Micro-Biology; Department of Physics; Department of Statistics; Department of Zoology
- Faculty of Social Science --- Department of Economics; Department of History; Department of Journalism & Communication; Department of Library & Information Science; Department of Political Science; Department of Sociology
These, large number of academic departments enable this shivaji university kolhapur, to conduct an amazingly huge number of educational and research courses in the mentioned disciplines, at diverse academic and professional levels. These courses cover the varieties of undergraduate courses, diploma courses, certificate courses, postgraduate courses, postgraduate diploma courses, and doctoral research courses. To gather in-depth information about its courses in any subject or discipline at varying academic levels, please visit its website www.unishivaji.ac.in. Apart from well-established and opulent academic or educational infrastructure, other amenities and facilities available for students and scholars within the campus of this shivaji university maharashtra, are hostels, huge library, well-equipped laboratories, modern computer centre, science instrumentation centre, internal quality assurance cell, industry interaction cell, university press, museum, health centre, university guest house, placement cell, services for student welfare, scholarship schemes, and other facilities and services.