Aerial view of Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University Campus Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), formerly Kanpur University, is a public state university located in

Kanpur Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...

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 ...

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. It is administered under the state legislature of the government of Uttar Pradesh.

Administration

The administration is the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor and the members of the executive council, the court and the academic council of the university. The Kulpati (Vice-Chancellor) is a whole-time salaried officer of the university and is appointed by the chancellor from amongst the names submitted to him by a committee constituted in accordance with the provisions above U.P. Universities Act 1973.

Colleges

The university is affiliating university all non engineering, non medical (including pharmacy), non MBA degree, non MCA degree offering colleges of Auraiya district, Etawah district, Farrukhabad district,

Kannauj district Kannauj district is an administrative district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, along the river Ganges. The historic town of Kannauj, northwest of Kanpur, is the administrative center. The district was carved out of Farrukhabad distric ...

Kanpur Dehat district Kanpur Dehat district is a district in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The administrative headquarters of the district are at Mati- Akbarpur. This district is part of Kanpur division. Kanpur was formerly spelled Cawnpore. History The s ...

, Kanpur Nagar district and Unnao district from the year of 2020. Notable affiliated colleges include

DAV College, Kanpur Dayanand Anglo Vaidik Mahavidyalaya (D.A.V. College) is a college in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, established in 1919 by Lala Diwan Chand, is the second oldest college in the city. The college is situated in Civil Lines, opposite the Green Par ...

Vikramajit Singh Sanatan Dharma College Vikramajit Singh Sanatan Dharma College (VSSD college), formerly Sanatan Dharma College, is situated on the right bank of the Ganges river at Nawabganj in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1921. Affiliations At first, the col ...

Christ Church College, Kanpur Christ Church College, Kanpur is a college established in 1866, affiliated with Kanpur University, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Earlier in 1840, SPG Mission School was established to educated Christian students. Later its name turned to prese ...

Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College is a government aided private college at Heonra, a village adjacent to Saifai in Etawah. It was established as Chaudhary Charan Singh Degree College by Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1983. It is affiliated t ...

etc.

Formerly affiliated institutions

The list of formerly affiliated notable college who now have university status or now affiliated with another university- *

Harcourt Butler Technical University Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU) is a Premier State Technical University in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The HBTU was named after Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, Governor of the United Provinces in British India. Its programs have be ...

(1968 to 2000) *

Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology (CSAUA&T) is an agricultural university at Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is named after the Indian revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad. Besides Kanpur, it also has con ...

(1968 to 1975) *

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 ...

(2006 to 2016) *

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVMMC or GSVM Medical College) is a public medical college in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The college is named after Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, a freedom fighter and journalist from Kanpur. It wa ...

(1968 to 2021)

Notable alumni

Government and politics

Ram Nath Kovind Ram Nath Kovind (; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the second person after K. R. Narayanan, from the Dalit community ...

, 14th President of India * Harsh Vardhan, ex-

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, Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Earth Sciences, attended

, graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery *

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, 5th director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality * Shivpal Singh Yadav, MLA and former Cabinet Minister in

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* Anupriya Patel, MP & former State Minister in

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* Ram Gopal Yadav, MP *

Naresh Uttam Patel Naresh Uttam Patel (born 10 January 1956) is a leader of the Samajwadi Party and member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. He first became an MLA as a Janata Dal candidate in 1989 and is one of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party. ...

, MLC and state president of

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(

) *

Lalji Verma Lalji Verma (born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician. Ex. Minister Uttar Pradesh government and leader of the BSP legislative assembly. Biography Verma was born in the village of Mohiuddinpur, in Uttar Pradesh, India, on January 5, 19 ...

, MLA *

Nafees Ahmad Nafees Ahmad is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Gopalpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. Early life and education Ahma ...

, MLA *

Harvindar Kumar Sahani Harvinder Kumar Sahani also known as Romi Sahni is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th and Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. He represents the Palia constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Bahuja ...

, MLA *

Sarita Bhadauria Sarita Bhadauria (born 4 January 1963) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. She is also a member of 17th Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh of India. She hails from the Etawah constituency in Uttar Pradesh which is considered to be the ...

, MLA *

Adesh Kumar Gupta Adesh Kumar Gupta (born 29 January 1969) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the former president of party's Delhi unit. Starting his political career as a twelfth-grade student when he joined the Akhil ...

, state president of Bhartiya Janta Party (

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

) *

Sone Lal Patel Sone Lal Patel (1950-2009) was an Indian leader active in state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the founder of the political party Apna Dal and one of the founding members of Bahujan Samaj Party. He opposed casteism and social inequality. Early l ...

, founder of Apna Dal *

Subhashini Ali Subhasini Ali (born 29 December 1947) is an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She is the President of the All India Democratic Women's Association and former Member of Parliament from Kanpur. Early life ...

, former MP and Polit Beuro member of

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Annu Tandon Annu Tandon (born 15 November 1957) is an Indian politician. She was an MP in the 15th Lok Sabha from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh with the Indian National Congress party. She left Congress in 2020 to join Samajwadi Party. Tandon is the founder direct ...

, former MP *

Premdas Katheria Premdas Katheria was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Etawah constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. Etawah constituency was reserved seat for scheduled caste category. Education and ba ...

, former MP * Sushila Saroj, former MP *

Ashok Kumar Doharey Ashok Kumar Dohre (born 23 September 1970) is a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roo ...

, former MP * Arvind Pratap, former MLC

Academics

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, chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the

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Sarvagya Singh Katiyar Sarvagya Singh Katiyar (1935 – 9 October 2018), FRSC, popularly known as S. S. Katiyar, was an Indian scientist specializing in enzymology, and the founder Director of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow. He is a former pre ...

, former vice chancellor of Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Padma Bhushan and

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

. *

Onkar Singh Onkar Singh (born 8 October 1968) is an Indian Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Vice Chancellor of Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun. He has been the founder Vice-Chancellor of Madan Mohan Malaviya Un ...

, vice-chancellor of Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University and founder vice chancellor of

Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT) is a university in Gorakhpur. It was established in 2013 by upgrading Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College (MMMEC) into a university. . History MMMUT has its roots with Madan Mohan M ...

* Raj Kumar, founder director of

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh (AIIMS Rishikesh) is a medical college and hospital based in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. The institute operates autonomously under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Minister for ...

and former vice chancellor of

Rakesh Bhatnagar Rakesh Bhatnagar is an Indian educationist, scientist, and the current Vice Chancellor of Amity University Rajasthan. Previously he has served as the 27th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. Early life He has an M. Sc. from Kanpur U ...

, former vice chancellor of Banaras Hindu University *

Ghanshyam Swarup Ghanshyam Swarup (born 1953) is an Indian molecular biologist, a J. C. Bose National Fellow and the head of the ''Ghanshyam Swarup Research Group'' of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. He is known for his studies on glaucoma and th ...

, Molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate *

Hargovind Bhargava Hargovind Bhargava is an Indian agricultural economist, politician and a former MLA. He is a PhD degree holder assistant professor of agricultural economics and was a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh & 15th Legislative Assem ...

, Economist

Others

* Mohammad Kaif, cricketer (dropout) * Anny Divya, pilot, attended

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) is a public pilot training institute located at Fursatganj Airfield in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1985. It is an autonomous institution and comes under the Ministry of Civil Aviati ...

, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Aviation *

Veena Sahasrabuddhe Veena Sahasrabuddhe (14 September 1948 – 29 June 2016) was an Indian vocalist and composer of Hindustani classical music from Kanpur. Her singing style had its roots in Gwalior gharana, but it also borrowed from Jaipur and Kirana gharanas. ...

, vocalist and composer of Hindustani classical music *

Rahul Mishra Rahul Mishra (born 7 November 1979) is an Indian fashion designer based in Delhi. He is the first Indian designer to be invited to showcase at the Haute Couture Week in Paris. He won the International Woolmark Prize in 2014 at Milan Fashion We ...

, won the International Woolmark Prize in 2014 at Milan Fashion Week

References

External links

Official website
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