Tezpur University
One of the major, internationally reputed, and fast progressing universities in Assam, is the central university named the Tezpur University. This highly ambitious, responsible, and magnificent university of the north-eastern India was established with visionary initiatives of the Government of Assam and the Indian Government in the year 1994. Here, it is quite noteworthy that, this tezpur university assam, is the very first university of India to provide a postgraduate program in the Computational Seismology, and is one of the few universities in entire India which possesses a grand and exclusive department of Energy. Again, its department of electronics is one of its kind in whole India that introduced a rich and very prolific interdisciplinary course in Bioelectronics at the postgraduate level. This tezpur university is well-established over an area of 262 acres at Napaam, which is a suburb of Tezpur distant about 15 Km east of this city. Napaam is a blend of rural and suburban regions and a cherished home to people of diverse caste, creeds, languages and religion; while Tezpur is the headquarters of the Sonitpur district of Assam.
The stated objectives of this tezpur university of Assam are to conduct highly employment-oriented professional and interdisciplinary courses, mostly at the levels of postgraduate and doctoral, to meet the industrial and developmental requirements of Assam and other States of India; to offer distance education courses to provide higher education to people residing in rural and remote areas of Assam and other parts of India; nurture cutting-edge research in highly significant and emerging new areas of science and technology; and to promote national integration of India through offering linguistic, tribal, and cultural studies. Through wholehearted and unflinching dedication to these aims, this fast-paced and visionary tezpur university cherishes to become of the hugely popular, reputed, and top universities in assam and the entire north-eastern India, in the nearest possible future years.
This tezpur university india, is especially prominent and preferable for professional and research courses at the postgraduate and doctoral levels. However, owing to the ever-growing popularity of its courses, it has now also started offering the graduate-level courses in most of its disciplines, along with the diploma and certificate courses. At present, this tezpur university assam, has four giant and most significant academic schools, which are further divided into 17 academic departments and three special academic centers. The schools and departments are as under:
- School of Sciences - Departments of Chemical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Physics, and Environmental Sciences.
- School of Engineering - Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Food Engineering and Technology, and the department of Energy.
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences - Departments of English and Foreign Languages, Cultural Studies, Mass Communication and Journalism, Sociology, Hindi, and Center of Assamese Studies.
- School of Management Sciences - Department of Business Administration and Center for Disaster management.
Through efficient and expert support of these academic divisions and departments, this tezpur university of Assam provides an opulent gamut of professional and research programs at the levels of diploma and certification, undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral. Its Center for Open and Distance Learning (CODL) also offers a large number of educational courses to Indian and foreign students and professionals. All necessary and very productive resources, amenities, and facilities are present within the campus of this university, including the facilities of huge central library, affluent hostels, health center, scholarship schemes, computer center, modern and well-equipped laboratories, sports facilities, transportation facilities, training and placement cell, guest house, and many other special centers and cells, and services.