Jawaharlal Nehru University Courses

The Jawaharlal University comprises ten Schools, each of which having several Centers along with four independent Special Centers. The newest school is School of Arts and Aesthetics, while the School of Biotechnology was set up in 2006 from the earlier Center for Biotechnology. The School of Computational and Integrative Sciences (earlier School of Information Technology) offers M.Tech in Computational and Systems Biology, and pre-doctorate and doctorate courses in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Center are the two centres of the department. Computer science courses are conducted under the School of Computer and Systems Sciences. Established in 1974, this school draws the largest number of applications as compared with the other schools.

The School of Environmental Sciences conducts Research into Remote sensing application in Geosciences, especially Groundwater and Earthquake forewarning and Sun-Earth connection. Other areas for research include Environmental Biosciences, Ecology, Geomics, Glaciology, Chemistry, Cell Biology, immunology, Pollution studies, Radiation Physics and Environmental Physics. The University also has the School of International Studies, which is its oldest school. It was established in 1956, even before the JNU came into being.

Center for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for International Legal Studies, the Center for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament Studies, the Center for International Trade and Development, the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies, the Center for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, the Center for West Asian & African Studies and the Group of Comparative Politics & Political Theory are the various centers offering courses.

The only centre offering undergraduate courses is the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies: It has several centres: the Center for Arabic and African Studies, the Center for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Center for German Studies, the Center of Indian Languages, the Center for Japanese Korean and North East Asian Studies, the Center for English Studies, the Center for Linguistics, the Center for Persian and Central Asian Studies, the Center for Russian Studies, the Center for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies.

One of the oldest courses is offered by the School of Life Science, while the school of Physical Science, established in 1986 includes a faculty in Physics, in Chemistry and Mathematics. The degree programs conducted by the school are M.Sc. (in Physics) and Ph.D. (in Physics, Chemistry or Mathematics).

Several research areas such as include Theoretical and Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Soft-Matter Physics, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Classical and Quantum Chaos, Low Temperature Physics, Materials Science, Supramolecular Chemistry are present in the university besides extensive computational facilities with a dedicated Nonlinear Dynamics laboratory.

The School of Social Sciences, which is the largest School in JNU, has 9 centres. The different centers in this school are the Center for the Study of Regional Development, which is accredited as the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) by the University Grants Commission and is the premier center in the Field of (GEOGRAPHY), the Center for Economic Studies and Planning, which is a leading institute in the field of economics, the Center for Historical Studies, which repeatedly brings out a reputed peer-reviewed journal entitled Studies in History, the Center for Philosophy, the Center for Political Studies, the Center for Studies in Science Policy, the Center for the Study of Social Systems, the Center of Social Medicine and Community Health, the Zakir Husain Center for Educational Studies, Special Centers-Center for the Study of Law and Governance, Center for Molecular Medicine, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies and Special Centre for Nano Sciences.