Central University of Gujarat is a public central university in Gandhinagar, Gujarat offering courses at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. The university includes 16 schools, 14 academic departments, and 2 other special centres.

Organization & Governance

The Central University of Gujarat has eleven schools in different disciplines with various centres within them, at one special Centre.

Schools & Centres

The university has 11 specialized schools imparting education in various fields. Some schools have further specialized centres within them. * School of Applied Material Science (SAMS) * School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) * School of Education (SE) ** Centre for Studies in Research and Education(CSRE) * School of Environment and Sustainable Development (SESD) * School of International Studies (SIS) **Politics & International Relations (School level) (PIR) Established in 2012, the PIR-SIS offers

postgraduate Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree. The organization and struc ...

course in Politics & International Relations. **Centre for International Politics (CIP) The CIP offers doctoral programme in International politics. * School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies (SLLCS) **Centre for German Studies (CGS) The CGS-SLLCS offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral courses in German language,

people A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of propert ...

, and culture. **Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies (CCLTS) **Centre for English Studies (CES) **Centre for Hindi Language & Literature (CHLL) **Centre for Gujarati Language & Literature (CGLL) **Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) * School of Library & Information Sciences (SLIS) * School of Life Sciences (SLS) * School of Nano Sciences (SNS) * School of National Security Studies (SNSS) * School of Social Sciences (SSS)

Special Centre

The university also has a special centre for

Diaspora A diaspora ( ) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. Historically, the word was used first in reference to the dispersion of Greeks in the Hellenic world, and later Jews afte ...

studies. * Special Centre for Diaspora Studies

2009 Bill

The Central Universities Bill 2009 aims at creating one new central university each in

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, Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya in Sagar ( Madhya Pradesh), Utkal University in

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in Uttarakhand into Central universities.

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