Osmania University is a collegiate

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located in

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India ...

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, India.

Mir Osman Ali Khan Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII (5 or 6 April 1886 — 24 February 1967), was the last Nizam (ruler) of the Princely State of Hyderabad, the largest princely state in British India. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age o ...

, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farman to establish OSMANIA UNIVERSITY on the day of 28 August 1918. It is the third oldest university in southern India, and the first to be established in the erstwhile

Kingdom of Hyderabad Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

. It was the first Indian university to have

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'' — but with

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as a compulsory subject. As of 2012, the university hosts 3,700 international students from more than 80 nations. The O.U. is one of the largest university systems in the world with over 300,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges. The

Osmania Medical College Osmania Medical College, formerly known as ''The Hyderabad Medical School'', is a medical college in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was founded in 1846 by the 5th Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, Afzal ud Dowla, Asaf Jah 5. The college was orig ...

was once a part of the O.U. System. However, it is now under the supervision of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences.

History

The Osmania University was brought into existence in 1918 through a '' firman'' of ''

'', the last Nizam of Hyderabad. The need for a university in Hyderabad State was felt for a long time, and in 1917, Sir Akbar Hydari, in a memorandum to the Education Minister, emphasised the need to establish a university with

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' accession of Hyderabad State in 1948, the university fell under the purview of the state government. English replaced Urdu as the medium of instruction, and the Nizam's crown was also removed from the university seal. Hydari_ViceChancellor_InaugurationArtsCollege-OsmaniaUni_1937

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In 2022 the

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(NIRF) ranked Osmania University 22nd in universities.

Seal

The original seal featured the Nizam's crown as the crest, along with the phrase ''Noorun Ala Noor''. It also contained the

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...

, "I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate". The present emblem contains inscriptions in Telugu and Sanskrit. The new logo has the Urdu letter Ain in between. OsmaniaUniv PostalStamp

Campus

The Main campus is a chief intellectual centre in Hyderabad, and its alumni and faculty members include many distinguished individuals, including former Prime Minister of India P. V. Narasimha Rao. Admission to Main campus departments of Genetics, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Engineering, Management, and Law is highly competitive. The state government has appointed Prof S.Ramachandram as vice chancellor of the university. The university is accredited by the NAAC with an 'A⁺' Grade and conferred with the status of 'University with Potential for Excellence' by the UGC, New Delhi. The University Colleges are located in begumpet university. There are ten such colleges: the University College of Arts and Social Sciences, University College of Commerce & Business Management, University College of Technology, University College of Engineering, University College of Law, University College of Science, Institute of Advance Study in Education, and PG College of Physical Education. The university offers courses in Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Commerce and Business Management, Information Technology and Oriental Languages. In 2001, Osmania was awarded five-star status by the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission, part of the Government of India. The university has a campus of nearly 1600 acres (6 km²) with 300,000 students (counting all the campuses, constituent affiliated colleges and district centres) making it one of the largest higher education systems in India. Nearly 5000 faculty and staff are employed at Osmania. It attracts students from across the nation as well as from other countries.

Organisation and administration

Constituent colleges

Osmania University is a confederation of university colleges, constituent colleges, and affiliated colleges. The constituent colleges of the university include: *

Nizam College The Nizam College is a constituent college of Osmania University established in 1887 during the reign of Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, in Basheerbagh, Hyderabad, Telangana. History The Nizampur University College was originally the "Mirsa ...

*Post Graduate College of Law, Basheerbhagh * University College for Women, Koti *University College of Science, Saifabad *University Post Graduate College, Secunderabad

Other Autonomous Centers

* Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Hyderabad *

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, Hyderabad *Center For Plant Molecular Biology *Center For Indian Ocean Studies *Japal-Rangapur Observatory *Research and Training Unit in Navigational Electronics *Regional Center For Urban and Environmental Studies * National Institute of Nutrition *

City College Hyderabad Government City College (Autonomous), Hyderabad is an Under Graduate and Post-Graduate autonomous college located in Hyderabad. The campus is one of the oldest Heritage structures in Hyderabad. Government City College has been re-accredited with ...

*Center For Stem Cell Science, Hyderabad *Anwar Ul Uloom College, Hyderabad *PGRR center for distance education

Affiliated engineering colleges

The affiliated engineering colleges of the university are scattered in

(mainly

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area) and offer various undergraduate and post-graduate engineering courses. The affiliated engineering colleges include (in no particular order): * Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology *

Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology (MJCET) is an engineering college located at Mount Pleasant, Road number 3, Banjara Hills, in the heart of the city of Hyderabad in India. The college is named after Muffakham Jah, Prince M ...

Deccan College of Engineering and Technology The Deccan College of Engineering and Technology (DCET) is a technical institute at Darussalam, Nampally in Hyderabad, India. The college is one of the eight Engineering colleges affiliated to Osmania University in Hyderabad. History The coll ...

Maturi Venkata Subba Rao Engineering College Osmania University is a collegiate university, collegiate Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farma ...

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* Vasavi College of Engineering * Lords Institute of Engineering and Technology * Islamia Engineering College * Neil Gogte Institute of Technology * Keshav Memorial Engineering College Main_Entrance_CBIT

Academics

Admissions

Osmania is a non-profit university which is funded and managed by the government. Admissions into the Bachelor of Engineering, Masters and Doctoral programs in main campus is on a merit basis, evaluated by national entrance examinations (

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, GATE, BCFSBTGMES-N&D, TSLAWCET, O.U. PhD Entrance Exam, DOST etc.) for each of the courses offered.

Library

The University Library is the main library of the university and it was founded in 1918 along with the university. It has close to 500,000 books and more than 6000 manuscripts, which includes rare palm leave manuscripts. It also has various journals, government documents, etc. The main library coordinates a library system, which connects the libraries in the entire campus and other constituent college libraries.

Rankings

Osmania University has ranked 1001–1200 in the world by the

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of 2022, 301–350 among universities in Asia category by the QS Asia Ranking 2020 and ranked on 32 in QS India Ranking in 2020. The ''

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'' ranked it 801–1000 globally in the 2020 ranking 251–300 in Asia in 2021 and 251–300 among Emerging Economies University Rankings 2021. The

(NIRF) ranked it 29 among universities in 2020.

Research

The research activities are funded by various autonomous agencies of the government of India. Foreign students are also admitted to the university via UFRO (University Foreign Relations Office) that allots admissions with minimum criteria. Indian students living overseas

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are also admitted through UFRO that are usually ineligible to get admissions via the entrance exams quota.

Notable alumni and faculty

Notable alumni of Osmania University include 9th Prime Minister of India P. V. Narasimha Rao,

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, cabinet minister, 16th and last Chief Minister of united

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with

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, CEO Adobe systems Shantanu Narayen and senior advocate Subodh Markandeya. Other alumni include spiritual guide and founder o
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Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji, pro chancellor of khaja bandanawaz university Syed Muhammad Ali Al Hussaini, former Indian Cricket team captain

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, cricket commentator

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, novelist

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, author and poet Sneha Narayanan, PDSU founder George Reddy, former Union Home Minister

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, former governor of the

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, Metallurgist and former Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University Patcha Ramachandra Rao and physicist Raziuddin Siddiqui.

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, cosmonaut and the first Indian to travel in space, was a graduate of Osmania. Karan Bilimoria, founder of

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, Member of the

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, and the seventh Chancellor of the

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earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Osmania in 1981. Rafi Ahmed, a well-known virologist and immunologist graduated from Osmania University in 1968. Notable former faculty members of the university include Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Dravidianist and linguist, and founder of linguistics department at the university, physicist Suri Bhagavantam, and linguist Masud Husain Khan..

References

External links

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