University of Mumbai



The University of Mumbai, also known as MU, is one of the first state universities of India and the oldest in Maharashtra.

The University of Mumbai offers Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral courses, as well as diplomas and certificates in many disciplines. The language of instruction for most courses is English. The University of Mumbai has three campuses across Mumbai (Kalina Campus, Thane Sub Campus and Fort Campus) and one outside Mumbai. The Fort campus carries out administrative work only. Several institutes in Mumbai previously affiliated to the university are now autonomous institutes or universities. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. In 2011, the total number of enrolled students was 549,432. The University of Mumbai currently has 711 affiliated colleges.

History


In accordance with "Wood's despatch", drafted by Sir Charles Wood in 1854, The University of Bombay was established in 1857 after presentation of a petition from the Bombay Association to the British colonial government in India. The University of Mumbai was modeled on similar universities in the United Kingdom, specifically the University of London.

The first departments established were the Faculty of Arts at Elphinstone College in 1835 and the Faculty of Medicine at Grant Medical College in 1845. Both colleges existed before the university was founded and surrendered their degree-granting privileges to the university. The first degrees awarded in 1862 were Bachelor of Arts and Licentiate in Medicine.

Initially, the Town Hall in Mumbai was used as the university's offices.

Until 1904, the university only conducted examinations, awarded affiliations to colleges, developed curricula and produced guidelines for colleges developing curricula. Teaching departments, research disciplines and post-graduate courses were introduced from 1904 and several additional departments were established. After India achieved independence in 1947, the functions and powers of the university were re-organised under The Bombay University Act of 1953. The name of the University was changed from University of Bombay to University of Mumbai in 1996.

In 1949, student enrolment was 42,272 with 80 affiliated colleges. By 1975, these numbers had grown to 156,190 and 114 respectively.

Kalina Campus
The Kalina campus in suburban Mumbai covers an area of 230 acre and houses graduate training and research centres. Departments offering courses in the sciences, technology, commerce, and humanities are located here. Most colleges of engineering and medicine affiliated to the University of Mumbai, though, are privately owned. The university does not have its own engineering or medicine departments.

Centres and institutes located in the Kalina Campus include;
 * Examination House, also known as Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Bhavan houses the office of the Controller of Examinations. Centralized assessment of answer books for various departments is carried out in a separate four-storey annex. Examination processes were made more efficient by the introduction of online delivery of question papers for examinations, and assessment of answer books by scanning at remote examination centres. The academic depository of the university was started in collaboration with CDSL in 2015. The university is the first university in the country to start an academic depository.
 * National Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology—a research facility.
 * Department of Biophysics—the only such department in western India.
 * Jawaharlal Nehru Library
 * Garware Institute of Career Education and Development, whose courses include medical transcription and management courses such as agriculture business management, pharma management and tourism management.
 * MAST (मस्त) FM, the campus radio station of the university operating at 107.8 MHz frequency modulation.
 * Alkesh Dinesh Mody Numismatic Museum which houses displays of currency from around the world.
 * Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies (ADMI) which offers BMS, MFSM and MMS programmes.
 * Department of Extra Mural Studies which conducts weekend courses in many disciples including astronomy, astrophysics, plant and animal taxonomy, hobby robotics, and hobby electronics.
 * The Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL) which offers courses in humanities, sciences, commerce, computer science, and information technology.
 * Western Regional Instrumentation Centre (WRIC)—a research and training facility for instrumentation engineering and science.
 * Centre for African Studies
 * Centre for Eurasian Studies
 * A rose garden where more than a hundred varieties of rose have been cultivated.
 * Marathi Bhasha Bhavan Centre which conducts academic and cultural activities associated with the Marathi language.

Thane Campus
The Thane Campus, established in 2014, spans an area of 6 acre and is a modern, 2-storey complex. It houses administrative offices, the School of Law, University of Mumbai and also undertakes management courses.

Fort Campus
The University of Bombay was established in 1857 at the Fort campus, which is located near the southern end of Mumbai. It houses the administrative division of the university on a 13 acre site. It has 1.25 e6sqft of built-up area, 22000 sqft of classrooms, and 84000 sqft of laboratory space. There are 2 post-graduate centres, 354 affiliated colleges, and 36 departments. It is built in the Gothic style and the Rajabai Clock Tower stands on the lawns of the campus.

Rajabai Clock Tower
One of Mumbai's landmarks, the Rajabai Clock Tower was completed in the 1870s and houses the University of Mumbai's library. Sir George Gilbert Scott modeled the Rajabai Clock Tower on the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster in London. Local businessman Premchand Roychand contributed to the cost of construction and named the tower in memory of his mother, Rajabai. The tower is 280 ft tall and has five storeys. At a height of 30 ft from the ground, there are eight statues representing the Indian castes. The tower clock is reported to have played 16 tunes including Rule, Britannia. On the initiative of the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Rajan Welukar, the first phase of restoration of Rajabai Clock Tower started in 2013 and was completed in May 2015. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) gave a Rs 4 crore grant for this phase of the restoration project.

Ratnagiri Campus
This minor campus, running mostly extramural courses, is located in the town of Ratnagiri.

Prominent institutes
Several departments of the University of Mumbai are located away from the three Mumbai campuses. These include the departments of Medicine and Medical Research located in several prominent hospitals in Mumbai, such as the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay Hospital and G.S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital. The Institute of Chemical Technology, then known as the UDCT, was originally an institution of MU, but later gained university status. Tata Memorial Hospital is now affiliated to the Homi Bhabha National Institute.

Similarly, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute was the first Engineering Institute in the University of Mumbai (1887) and Thadomal Shahani Engineering College was the first Engineering college in the University of Mumbai to start courses in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Sardar Patel College of Engineering is another reputed engineering college affiliated to the University.

In the School of Law, the Government Law College, Mumbai remains the most prominent institute since the university's inception.

The Institute of Chemical Technology was ranked 4th in the world for research in Chemical Engineering by professor Jude Sommerfeld of Georgia Institute of Technology, United States in 2014 for a 5-year period. It was a university department until it achieved university status.

The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies is consistently ranked among the top 10 management institutes of India and was established in the year 1965 in collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business of Stanford University.

Jawaharlal Nehru Library
Jawaharlal Nehru Library (JNL) is the central library, located on the campus at Kalina.

The technology and applied research journals and books of the University of Mumbai are kept in the libraries of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Tata Memorial Hospital.

Faculties and departments
The University of Mumbai has several hundred affiliated colleges offering undergraduate and post-graduate education, and conducting research in areas of science, commerce, arts, engineering, management, law, etc. Each college has its own campus and specialized departments/centres.

Areas of education and research are summarized in the table below:

Vice-Chancellors

 * John Wilson 1857
 * Raymond West
 * Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet 1863–1868
 * William Guyer Hunter 1869
 * Herbert Mills Birdwood
 * Kashinath Trimbak Telang 1892–1893
 * Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar 1893–1894
 * N. G. Chandavarkar 1911−1912
 * John Heaton 1912–1915
 * Pherozeshah Mehta 1915
 * Mirza Akbar Khan 1930–31
 * R. P. Paranjpe 1934
 * Pandurang Vaman Kane
 * John Matthai 1955–1957
 * V. R. Khanolkar 1960–1963
 * Shashikant Karnik
 * Trimbak Krishna Tope 1971–1977
 * M. D. Bengalee 1986
 * Snehalata Deshmukh −2000
 * Bhalchandra Mungekar 2000–2005
 * Vijay Khole 2005 – September 2009,
 * Chandra Krishnamurthy September 2009– July 2010, Acting Vice-Chancellor,
 * Rajan Welukar July 2010 – July 2015,
 * Sanjay V. Deshmukh July 2015 – present

Politics and public life

 * B. R. Ambedkar – Founding father of modern India, Champion of human rights, Author of the Constitution of India, Social reformist and polymath.
 * Muhammad Ali Jinnah – Founder and Father of the Nation of Pakistan
 * Bhulabhai Desai – Indian independence activist and acclaimed lawyer
 * Chaggan Bhujbal – Minister of Public Works Department and former Deputy Chief Minister, Government of Maharashtra
 * Dadabhai Naoroji – Intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader; the first Asian to sit in the British House of Commons
 * Gopal Krishna Gokhale, CIE – Social and political leader during the Indian Independence Movement
 * Jayant Patil – Minister of Rural Development, Government of Maharashtra
 * John Samuel Malecela – 6th Prime Minister of Tanzania, 1990–1994
 * Kona Prabhakara Rao – State Governor of Maharashtra, Pondicherry and Sikkim; Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh; former speaker of Andhra Pradesh State Assembly
 * Lal Krishna Advani – Former Deputy Prime Minister of India
 * Lokmanya Tilak – Nationalist leader, savant, philosopher, mathematician, and an advocate of Swaraj (self-rule)
 * Mahadev Govind Ranade – Distinguished scholar, social reformer and author
 * Mancherjee Bhownagree – British politician of Indian Parsi heritage.
 * Manohar Joshi – Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
 * Sir Manubhai Mehta – Dewan of Baroda state; Prime Minister of Bikaner state
 * Morarji Desai – 5th Prime Minister of India
 * Nilesh Rane – MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg
 * Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, KCIE – Indian political leader, activist, and an erstwhile leading lawyer in Mumbai
 * Praful Patel – MP from Bhandara-Gondiya
 * Pratibha Patil – 12th President of India
 * Rafiq Zakaria – Politician and Islamic scholar
 * Raj Thackeray – Founder, leader and chairperson of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
 * Sanjay Dina Patil – MP from Mumbai North East
 * Sanjeev Naik – MP from Thane.
 * Shivraj Patil – Governor of Punjab and former Home Minister of India
 * Sushilkumar Shinde – Former Home Minister of India
 * Swati Dandekar – Member of the Iowa House of Representatives
 * Vasundhara Raje – Chief Minister of Rajasthan, India
 * Yashwantrao Chavan – 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra; 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India
 * Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh, CIE, ICS – 3rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
 * Shanti Gandhi – US politician and physician
 * Kshama Sawant, member of the Seattle City Council (2014-present)

Science

 * Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar – Indian American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and former Marshall Professor and chair of mathematics at Purdue University
 * Edward Hamilton Aitken – humorist, naturalist
 * Salim Ali – Indian ornithologist and naturalist
 * Mustansir Barma – Director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
 * John Barnabas – Evolutionary biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1974)
 * Sekhar Basu – Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India
 * Homi Jahangir Bhabha, F.R.S – nuclear physicist who played a major role in the development of India's atomic energy programme
 * Renee M. Borges – Ecologist
 * Amol Dighe – Professor of physics in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
 * Madhav Gadgil – Ecologist and professor at Indian Institute of Science
 * Ravi Gomatam – Quantum physicist, director of Bhaktivedanta Institute
 * Vijay Gupchup – Former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mumbai, ex-chairman of the Research Council of Structural Engineering Research Centre in Chennai and ex-chairman of the National Board of Accreditation of AICTE
 * Jyeshtharaj Joshi – Indian chemical engineer and nuclear scientist, emeritus professor at Department of Atomic Energy.
 * Anil Kakodkar – Former director of BARC, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India Department of Atomic Energy
 * Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan – Space scientist and former head of the Indian Space Research Organisation
 * Mohammad Ali Reza Khan – Wildlife conservationist
 * Chandrashekhar Khare – Professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles
 * Chunni Lal Khetrapal – Chemical physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami – Geochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Ashish Kishore Lele – Chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * G.S. Maddala – American economist and mathematician
 * Raghunath Mashelkar – F.R.S – Former Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
 * Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon – F.R.S, physicist and former director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
 * Abhas Mitra – Head of theoretical astrophysics at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
 * Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal – Endocrinologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Ramakrishnan Nagaraj – Biochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan – F.R.S, mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, (1975)
 * Raghavan Narasimhan – Mathematician and professor at University of Chicago
 * Virendra Nath Pandey – Molecular virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * D. Raghavarao – Statistician and Laura H. Carnell Professor and chair of statistics at Temple University
 * Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan – F.R.S, mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan
 * Raja Ramanna – Indian nuclear scientist
 * Doraiswami Ramkrishna – Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
 * Vivek Ranade – Chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri, F.R.S – Mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
 * H.N. Sethna – Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
 * Man Mohan Sharma – F.R.S, former director of UDCT, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan awardee
 * B.L.K. Somayajulu – Geochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Manil Suri – Indian mathematician and writer.
 * Bal Dattatreya Tilak – Former director of National Chemical Laboratory and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Padma Bhushan
 * Jayant B. Udgaonkar – Molecular biologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Acacio Gabriel Viegas – Medical practitioner credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai, India in 1896

Academia

 * Georg Bühler – Scholar of ancient Indian languages and law, fellow of University of Mumbai
 * Indira Viswanathan Peterson – Professor of Asian Studies and editor of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.
 * Jagdish Bhagwati – University Professor of Economics at Columbia University
 * Avinash Dixit – John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University
 * Pandurang Vaman Kane – Indologist and Sanskrit scholar and former Vice-Chancellor of University of Mumbai
 * Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar – Oriental scholar and social reformer, first batch graduate, later vice-chancellor
 * Homi K. Bhabha – Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and director of the Humanities Center, Harvard University
 * Klaus Klostermaier, F.R.S.C. – Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, scholar of Indian Studies
 * Madhav Das Nalapat – Academic, columnist, and UNESCO Peace Chair
 * Madhav Sadashiv Gore – Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Padma Bhushan awardee

Arts

 * Anil Kapoor – Actor
 * Anand Patwardhan – Documentary film-maker
 * Dadasaheb Phalke – Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the father of Indian cinema"
 * Emraan Hashmi – Actor
 * Ebrahim Alkazi – Theatre director, Padma Vibhushan awardee
 * Gangadhar Gadgil – Author (fiction, Marathi)
 * Genelia D'souza – Actor
 * John Abraham – Actor
 * Kader Khan – Actor
 * Kareena Kapoor Khan – Actor
 * Madhuri Dixit – Actor
 * Mehli Mehta – Conductor of European classical music
 * Nissim Ezekiel – Poet
 * P. L. Deshpande – Writer, actor, composer, film and television producer and director
 * Ranjan Ghosh – Filmmaker and director Aparna Sen's first co-author
 * Rohinton Mistry – Author
 * Sonam Kapoor – Actor
 * Shabana Azmi – Actor
 * Smita Patil – Actor
 * Sonakshi Sinha – Actor
 * Srinivas – Playback singer
 * Urmila Matondkar – Actor
 * Vidya Balan – Actor
 * Zubin Mehta – Conductor of Western classical music

Beauty Pageant Winners

 * Aditi Govitrikar – Mrs. World beauty pageant winner, 2000
 * Aishwarya Rai – Miss World 1993 pageant winner, actor
 * Lara Dutta – Miss Universe pageant winner, 2000
 * Priyanka Chopra – Miss World 2000 pageant winner, actor

Business

 * Adi Godrej – Chairman of Godrej Group
 * Ajit Gulabchand – Industrialist, chairman and managing director Hindustan Construction Company
 * Anil Ambani – Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
 * Anji Reddy – Founder of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Padma Shri awardee
 * Azim Premji – Chairman of Wipro Limited
 * Chanda Kochhar – CEO and MD of ICICI Bank
 * Dorabji Tata – Former chairman of Tata group
 * Jagdish Chandra Mahindra – Industrialist, founder of Mahindra Group
 * Jamsetji Tata – Founder of Tata group and the Indian Institute of Science
 * Keki Hormusji Gharda – Founder of Gharda Chemicals
 * Keki Mistry – Vice-chairman and CEO
 * Mukesh Ambani – Chairman and managing director, Reliance Industries
 * Narotam Sekhsaria – Co-founder and chairman, Ambuja Cements
 * Nita Ambani – Founder and chairperson of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School
 * Pankaj Patel – Chairman and managing director of Cadila Healthcare
 * Renuka Ramnath – Founder and CEO of Multiples Private Equity, Ex-CEO of ICICI Ventures
 * Avtar Saini – Former director for South Asia Region, Intel and one of the pioneers of the Pentium-series processors

Journalism

 * Homai Vyarawalla – First woman photojounalist of India, Padma Vibushan awardee
 * Samarth singh – Former Times of India Writer, Foreign Affairs Blogger, Spain India Council Foundation
 * Sucheta Dalal – Business journalist
 * Thrity Umrigar – Journalist and author

Law

 * B.N. Srikrishna – Indian jurist and a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
 * H. J. Kania – First Chief Justice of India
 * Kashinath Trimbak Telang – Indian judge and oriental scholar.
 * M. C. Chagla – Indian jurist, diplomat, former cabinet minister, former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court
 * Mushtak Ali Kazi – Judge of the High Court of Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan
 * Nanabhoy Palkhivala – Indian jurist and economist
 * P. N. Bhagwati – Chief Justice of India (1985–1986)
 * S. K. Venkataranga – lawyer and an associate of Mahatma Gandhi

Religion

 * Virchand Gandhi – Jain scholar and lawyer known for representing Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1893
 * Zakir Naik – Muslim preacher on comparative religion

Sport

 * Farokh Engineer– Former cricket player
 * Harish Kapadia – Himalayan mountaineer and recipient of Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society
 * Sunil Gavaskar – Former cricket player
 * Ajit Agarkar – Former cricket player
 * Ravi Shastri – Former cricket player

Miscellaneous

 * Anant Pai – Publisher of Indian books for children, especially the series Amar Chitra Katha
 * Sir Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal, 2nd Baronet
 * Dwarkanath Kotnis – Doctor practising in China who helped Chinese communists army during World War II
 * Muffazal Lakdawala – Obesity surgeon and a laparoscopic expert, and the founder of the Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery

Partner universities
Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with University of Amsterdam, University of Bath, Liverpool Hope University, Ryerson University, IESEG School of Management, Kühne Logistics University, Tianjin University of Technology, Nankai University in China and Edith Cowan University in Australia.