Osmania University
Founded in 1918, Osmania University is one of the most famous, hugely popular, and internationally reputed public universities of India, by dint of its ace-quality regular and distance learning courses at diverse academic levels. Many striking facts are associated with this magnificent and fast prospering State public university of Hyderabad. Some of these are --- it is one of the oldest universities of India (third oldest in the south India); it is the very first university which also has Urdu as a medium of instruction; its ranks among the top ten public universities of India, owing to its recognition as a Grade 'A' university by NAAC, and a University with Potential for Excellence (UPE); it is not only the biggest higher education organization in India, but also the largest affiliating university of Asia with about 1000 affiliated colleges and 5.5 Lakh students and scholars on its campuses and in its affiliated colleges; and this globally prominent university draws students and scholars from about 80 countries for world-class higher education and cutting-edge research.
An impeccable confederation of university colleges, constituent colleges, and affiliated colleges, this osmania university india, has been finding high ranking among the top ten and leading public universities of India for superb and rather prolific courses in the streams of Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Law, Engineering and Technology, and Commerce. For offering superlative and world-class educational and research courses in the below-mentioned disciplines, this osmania university andhra pradesh, has built promising and lasting academic collaborations with many well-reputed Indian and International universities and institutes, besides being a reputed member of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU). The Osmania Medical College, which is now placed under the supervision of the NTR University of Health Sciences, was once a vital part of this glamorous osmania university. The main campus of this visionary osmania university is located in Hyderabad over an extensive area of nearly 1600 acres (6 Km2). Within this urban campus located are its eight university colleges; while its constituent colleges and affiliated colleges are spread all across the city and district of Hyderabad, and offer courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
This immensely and internationally reputed osmania university hyderabad, has the following twelve well-equipped and opulent major faculty divisions:
- Faculty of Arts --- Ancient History; Culture & Archeology; Communication & Journalism; English; French; German; Persian; Russian; Islamic Studies; Linguistics; Theatre Arts
- Faculty of Business Management --- Business Administration; Business Management
- Faculty of Commerce --- Commerce; Computer Information Systems; Finance & Control
- Faculty of Education --- Education; Physical Education
- Faculty of Engineering --- Bio-Medical (B.M.E.); Electrical & Electronics Engineering (E.E.E.); Electronics & Communication Engineering (E.C.E.); Mechanical Engineering (M.E.); Civil Engineering (C.E.); Computer Science and Engineering (C.S.E.); and Information Technology (I.T.)
- Faculty of Informatics --- Computer Applications; Information Systems
- Faculty of Law --- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR); Corporate Laws; Labor Laws; Constitutional Law; Jurisprudence; International Law; Crimes and Torts; Alternative Dispute resolution (ADR); International Trade and Economic Laws; Taxation and Insurance Laws; Cyber Laws
- Faculty of Oriental Languages --- Arabic; Urdu; Telugu; Marathi; Hindi; Sanskrit; Kannada; Tamil; etc.
- Faculty of Pharmacy --- Pharmacy
- Faculty of Science --- Astronomy; Applied Geochemistry; Biochemistry; Biotechnology; Botany; Chemistry; Environmental Science; Forensic Science; Genetics; Geography; Geology; Geophysics; Computational Geophysics; Geo-Informatics; Mathematics; Computer Science; Microbiology; Nutrition & Dietetics; Physics; Statistics; and Zoology
- Faculty of Social Sciences --- Economics, History, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology and Psychology, Library Science
- Faculty of Technology --- Chemical Engineering; Chemical Technology; Food Technology; Biotechnology; Textile Technology; Materials Science & Technology; Bio-Chemistry; etc.
With comprehensive, highly efficient, and impeccable support of these faculty divisions and departments of the university colleges, constituent colleges, and also affiliated colleges, this one of the most prestigious and top universities of Hyderabad, offers rich and very fertile courses at almost all academic levels. These courses in the above-listed disciplines and subjects come under the categories of undergraduate courses, diploma courses, postgraduate courses, PG diploma courses, and doctoral research courses. Its distance education department which was established in 1977, is hugely famous and popular nationwide and internationally for high-quality and rather professional courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Detailed information about the courses of this major, responsible, and innovative university of Andhra Pradesh, can readily be found from visiting its well-devised website https://www.osmania.ac.in/-. The amenities and facilities available within the campus of this affluent university are modern and lavish academic and residential infrastructure, messes, giant and affluent university library, Health Centre, centre for educational development of minorities, students welfare departments, NSS, NCC, directorate of placements, SC/ST cell, international placement services, physical education, Department of Publications and Press, Estate Cell, Guest House, Horticulture and University Gardens, banking and postal services, faculty club, facilities for conferences and seminars, etc.