Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, formerly Agra University, is an Autonomous University located in

Agra Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

, India. The university is named after

Bhimrao Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served a ...

, Indian scholar, social reformer, and the architect of the Indian Constitution.

Institute of Engineering and Technology

The Institute of Engineering and Technology Khandari, Agra (I.E.T. Khandari, Agra), situated at the Khandari campus in the city of Agra, was established in 1998 and is the engineering institute of the university.

Institute of Social Sciences

The Institute of Social Sciences (ISS), Agra is situated at Paliwal campus in university premises.

Notable alumni

Charan Singh Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.' Charan S ...

, former

Prime Minister of India The prime minister of India (IAST: ) is the head of government of the Republic of India. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and their chosen Council of Ministers, despite the president of India being the nominal head of the ...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Atal Bihari Vajpayee (; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months fr ...

, former

* Mulayam Singh Yadav, former CM * Santosh Gangwar, Chairperson, Committee on public undertakings * Dronamraju Krishna Rao, geneticist * Ganesh Prasad Pandey, organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Hirdaya Behari Mathur, physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate *

Hridyanath Kunzru Hridya Nath Kunzru (1 October 1887– 3 April 1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and public figure. He was a long-time Parliamentarian, serving in various legislative bodies at the Provincial and Central level for nearly four decades. He was a m ...

, Freedom Fighter, First National Commissioner of

Bharat Scouts and Guides Bharat, or Bharath, may refer to: * Bharat (term), the name for India in various Indian languages ** Bharata Khanda, the Sanskrit name for the Indian subcontinent (or South Asia) * Bharata, the name of several legendary figures or groups: ** Bha ...

& first President of the Children's Film Society. *

Javed Agrewala Javed Naim Agrewala (born 14 May 1961) is an Indian immunologist, the prof. at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar and the chief scientist and professor at the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh. Known for his research on Tuberculo ...

, molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate *

Manapurathu Verghese George Manapurathu Verghese George (3 October 1928 - 9 December 2019) was an Indian photochemist and an Emeritus professor of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST). He was known for establishing the Photochemistry ...

, photochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate *

Om Dutt Gulati Om Datt Gulati (1927–2012) was an Indian pharmacologist and the Dean of the Department of pharmacology at Baroda Medical College. Known for his researches in autonomic pharmacology, he was also a professor at Pramukhswami Medical College, Ana ...

, pharmacologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and B. C. Roy laureate *

Shyam Sunder Kapoor Shyam Sunder Kapoor (born 14 June 1938) is an Indian nuclear physicist and a former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Known for his research on fission and heavy-ion physics, Kapoor is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian sc ...

, nuclear physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Virendra Singh, theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Y. D. Sharma, molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Gopal Krishna, radio astronomer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Rajendra Yadav, pioneer of the Hindi literary movement *

Aziz Qureshi Aziz Qureshi (born 24 April 1941) is an Indian politician and a senior Indian National Congress leader of mixed Arab-Pathan Muslim ethnoreligious and Urdu-speaking linguistic background from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He had previously served as 1 ...

, former governor *

Shafiqur Rahman Barq Shafiqur Rahman Barq (born 11 July 1930) is an Indian politician belonging to the Samajwadi Party. He has been elected to Lok Sabha at various times from Moradabad as Samajwadi Party candidate and Sambhal, most recently in 2019. Career He ...

, MP (Uttar pradesh) * Ramakant Yadav, ex-VC of

Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences The Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, formerly U.P. Rural Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, is a medical school, hospital and medical research public university located at Saifai in the Etawah District of Uttar Pradesh, In ...

Dev Swarup Dev Swarup is an Indian educational administrator. He is first founding vice-chancellor of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University. He has been also additional secretary (2019-2020) of University Grants Commission (India) and joint secretary, UGC, ...

, VC of

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University (ALU Jaipur) is an residential-cum-affiliating University specialized in legal studies in Indian state of Rajasthan's capital Jaipur. It was established by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University, Jaipur Bill, 201 ...

* Ram Gopal Yadav, MP (Rajya Sabha) *

Dhatri Saran Mathur Dhatri Saran Mathur (Devanagari: धातृ शरण माथुर), I.C.S., (born 13 November 1912) was the former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. Career Mathur studied in Government Intermediate College of Etawah, Agra Unive ...

, I.C.S and Chief Justice of

Allahabad High Court Allahabad High Court, also known as High Court of Judicature at Allahabad is the high court based in Prayagraj that has jurisdiction over the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 17 March 1866, making it one of the oldest high ...

Devendra Singh Yadav Devendra Singh Yadav (born 1 January 1951) is an Indian politician for the Etah (Lok Sabha Constituency) in Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it ...

, former MP * Ajit Doval, Current National Security Advisor to the

, with the precedence of a Cabinet Minister *

H. N. Kunzru Hridya Nath Kunzru (1 October 1887– 3 April 1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and public figure. He was a long-time Parliamentarian, serving in various legislative bodies at the Provincial and Central level for nearly four decades. He was a m ...

, Indian freedom fighter * Raj Babbar, Indian film actor and politician *

Ibn-e-Safi Ibn-e-Safi (26 July 1928 – 26 July 1980) (also spelled as Ibne Safi) ( ur, ) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad ( ur, ), a fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Persian expression which litera ...

, Urdu-language novelist, author of Jasoosi Duniya series. *

Narinder Singh Kapany Narinder Singh Kapany FREng (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) was an Indian-American physicist best known for his work on fiber optics.

, Physicist known as 'Father of Fibre Optics', and Padma Vibhushan awardee *

Rekha Dikshit Rekha Dikshit (born 10 August 1959) is a former judge of Allahabad High Court, in Uttar Pradesh, India. She has been the trial judge in several notable cases, including the case of ''Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum,'' a controversial case c ...

, former judge of

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* {{Authority control Universities in Uttar Pradesh Universities and colleges in Agra Educational institutions established in 1927 1927 establishments in India