Sikkim University

This central-funded public university is one of the hugely popular, widely prominent, and immensely reputed universities in the north-eastern India. Established under a visionary and laudable Act of the Parliament of India in the year 2007, this Sikkim University is nationwide and internationally famous for its top-notch educational, professional, and research programs, especially at postgraduate and doctoral levels, in almost all disciplines of contemporary importance. At present, this sikkim university is functioning temporarily from its hired buildings located at Samdur (6th Mile), on the expressway from Siliguri to the State capital Gangtok. The permanent campus of this one of the top universities in sikkim, is soon to be established at Yangang over an extensive area of about 750 acres. This new location of the Sikkim university in the south Sikkim will be just about 55 Km from Gangtok. The main and ultimate goals of this fast prospering university are to emerge out as a renowned hub for quality higher education in this region of India, to provide employment-oriented education to rich and poor students alike at quite economical and affordable costs, and contribute substantially and remarkably to the industrial, economic, and social development and progress of Sikkim and other neighboring and remote States of India.

With efficient and superb support of its 06 major schools, which contain about 30 well-equipped and magnificent academic departments, this sikkim university gangtok, conducts a large number of professional and research courses, in the following disciplines, and at all academic hierarchies. These courses can broadly be divided into the categories of Undergraduate courses; Integrated or Dual-degree courses; Postgraduate programs; and Doctoral programs. Some unique and very productive educational courses are additionally provided by this responsible university of Sikkim to benefit people of this State, such as ethnic history, border studies, mountain studies, hill music and culture, etc. Its six main and major schools are the following:

Various departments of these schools conduct courses in the subjects/fields of sciences, arts & humanities, Indian and foreign languages, social sciences, computer applications, commerce and management, education and teaching, horticulture, forestry, law, mass communication and journalism, music, tourism and hospitality, international relations, economic studies and planning, peace and conflict studies and management, etc. In order to provide courses of international standards, this sikkim university india, has made memorandum of cooperation and support with many national and international institutes and universities, including the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan; Payson Centre for International Development and Knowledge Transfer, School of Law, Tulane University; University of Colorado; University of Helsinki (UoH), Finland; Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi; ARCHES, Italy; V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida; INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad; National Archives of India, New Delhi; Indus Publishing Company, and many more. To forge ahead to meet its goals, this major university of Sikkim is well-equipped with all necessary academic, residential, and facilitative resources and services, including large and well-equipped academic departments and laboratories, huge central library, halls of residence, equal opportunity cell (EOC), health center, fitness center, guest house, transportation facilities, etc.