The Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) is a central university located in Ranchi,

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . I ...

, India. It was established in 2009.

History

CUJ was established in 2009 under the first schedule of the ''Central Universities Act, 2009''. The first and founding

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(VC),

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, was appointed 1 March 2009. Consequent upon culmination of his tenure in March 2014, he was replaced by acting vice chancellor A.N. Misra. Prof. Misra served as acting VC until the appointment of Nand Kumar Yadav Indu as permanent VC in August 2015. On completion of his term, Prof. Ratan Kumar Dey served as the acting VC for almost a year. Currently, Prof. Kshiti Bhusan Das is heading the university.

Campus

The Brambe campus includes 70 independent class rooms and teaching labs, a 450-seat auditorium, research lab complex for sciences, engineering workshops, computer lab, and a linguistics lab. The university provides on-campus accommodation to students (total capacity 1000 boys and girls in separate hostels). CUJ permanent administrative Building

Organisation and administration

Schools and departments

The schools and departments under the Central University of Jharkhand are.

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Politics and International Relations
* Department of Public Administration School of Mass Communication and Media Technologies * Department of Mass Communication School of Natural Sciences * Department of Chemistry * Department of Physics * Department of Life Sciences * Department of Mathematics * Department of Computer Science and Technology School of Languages
Department of English Studies

Department of Hindi

Department of Far East Languages (Korean, Chinese, Tibetan)
School of Engineering and Technology
Department of Nano Science and Technology

Department of Energy Engineering

Department of Transport Science and Technology

Centre for Excellence-Green and Efficient Energy Technology (CoE-GEET)

Department of Water Engineering and Management
School for the Study of Culture
Department of Anthropology and Tribal Studies

Department of Contemporary and Tribal Customary Law

Department of Performing Arts
School of Natural Resource Management
Department of Environmental Sciences

Department of Geo-informatics

Department of Geography
School of Management Sciences
Department of Business Administration

Department of Commerce and Financial Studies
School of Education * Department of Education

Academics

CUJ offers Masters Program in more than 20 disciplines, teacher training program (B.Ed.) and Ph.D. programs. As of now these programs are offered at the temporary campus of the university located at Brambe, a 25 km drive from Ranchi (Capital of Jharkhand state in India) railway station. Campus inner view and university auditorium

Campus inner view and university auditorium

Admission

Admission to the M.Sc./M.Tech/M.Com /M.B.A./M.A./ B.Ed. and Ph.D. programs are based on the Common University Entrance Test (CUET).

References

9.High Court of Jharkhand Judgement regarding awarding of unspecified degre
Mausam Kumar vs The Union Of India on 20 July, 2018

External links

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