Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, formerly Bhavnagar University is a
state university
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State univer ...
located in
Bhavnagar
Bhavnagar is a city in the Bhavnagar district of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, a state of India. It was founded in 1723 by Bhavsinhji Takhtasinhji Gohil (1703–1764). It was the capital of Bhavnagar State, which was a princely state ...
city in the state of
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
in
India
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. The university provides teaching and research programs in Arts, Commerce, Science, Medicine, Management, Rural Studies and Law Faculties.
107 colleges are affiliated with Bhavnagar University. University provides teaching with 22 departments, 60 Postgraduate centres, 30 Diploma course-centers and 05 recognized institutes and research centres.
Bhavnagar was the first princely state to merge with the Union of India at the time of independence in 1947 by Maharaja Raol Shri Krishnakumar Sinhji Gohil.
Bhavnagar University came into being on 24 May 1979. Its land-estate area is 269 acres.
Academics
Research activities are carried out in the areas of Social Sciences, History, Nano-Technology, Marine Ecology, Intellectual Property Rights and its Management and Entrepreneurship.
The following Centres for Excellence and cells are engaged in research and consultancy services:
* Remedial Coaching Centre for S.T., S.C. and Minority
* Centre for Excellence in Nano-technology
* Gandhian Study Centre
* Ocean Science and Technology Cell for Western Coast
* ICT and ELT
* Entrepreneurship Development Cell
* Industry Linkage Cell
* Corporate Services Academy
Departments
* Department Computer Science & Applications
* Department of Anthropology
* Department of Bioinformatics
* Department of Business Administrations
* Department of Chemistry
* Department of Commerce
* Department of Economics
* Department of English
* Department of Geology's
* Department of Gujarati
* Department of Hindi
* Department of History
* Department of Life Science
* Department of Marine Science
* Department of Mathematics
* Department of Physics
* Department of Political Science
* Department of Psychology
* Department of Social Work
* Department of Sociology's
* Department of Statistics
References
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Universities in Gujarat
Education in Bhavnagar
1978 establishments in Gujarat
Educational institutions established in 1978