Assam University
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আসাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, শিলচর
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1994 |
| Chancellor | Gulzar[1] |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Dilip Chandra Nath[2] |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | www |
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Assam University (Bengali: আসাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a teaching-cum-affiliating Central University. The history of Assam University is the history of people's struggle in Barak Valley . The "Saheed Minar" situated near the entrance of the university commemorates the history of Bengali language movement (বাংলা ভাষা আন্দোলন) of this valley.[3] The university has sixteen schools which offer Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Information Sciences, Technology and Management Studies. There are 35 departments under these sixteen schools. The five districts under the jurisdiction of Assam University have 56 undergraduate colleges. Assam University is an institutional signatory to the Global Universities Network for Innovation (GUNI), Barcelona and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) for its commitment to educational social responsibilities.
The main campus, in an area of 600 acres (2.4 km2), is located at Dargakona, near Airongmara about 20 km from Silchar, while a second campus of the university is at Diphu, in the East Karbi Anglong district of Assam.
Contents
- 1 Schools and Departments
- 1.1 Abanindranath Tagore School of Creative Arts and Communication Studies
- 1.2 Albert Einstein School of Physical Science
- 1.3 Aryabhatta School of Earth Sciences
- 1.4 Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay School of Education
- 1.5 Deshabandhu Chittaranjan School of Legal Studies
- 1.6 E. P. Odam School of Environmental Sciences
- 1.7 Hargobind Khurana School of Life Sciences
- 1.8 Jadunath Sarkar School of Social Sciences
- 1.9 Jawaharlal Nehru School of Management Studies
- 1.10 Mahatma Gandhi School of Economics and Commerce
- 1.11 Rabindranath Tagore School of Indian Languages and Cultural Studies
- 1.12 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan School of Philosophy
- 1.13 Shushrutu School of Medical and Paramedical Sciences
- 1.14 Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay School of English and Foreign Language Studies
- 1.15 Swami Vivekananda School of Library Sciences
- 1.16 Triguna Sen School of Technology
- 2 Assam University Students Union
- 3 Academic collaboration
- 4 Affiliated colleges
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Schools and Departments
The major teaching schools of the university along with the departments under them are:[4]
Abanindranath Tagore School of Creative Arts and Communication Studies
- Department of Mass Communication
- Department of Visual Arts
Albert Einstein School of Physical Science
- Department of Computer Science(DCS)
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Mathematics
Aryabhatta School of Earth Sciences
Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay School of Education
- Department of Educational Science
Deshabandhu Chittaranjan School of Legal Studies
- Department of Law
E. P. Odam School of Environmental Sciences
- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Hargobind Khurana School of Life Sciences
- Department of Life Science & Bioinformatics
- Department of Biotechnology
- Department of Microbiology
Jadunath Sarkar School of Social Sciences
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of History
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Social Work
- Department of Sociology
Jawaharlal Nehru School of Management Studies
- Department of Business Administration
Mahatma Gandhi School of Economics and Commerce
- Department of Economics
- Department of Commerce
Rabindranath Tagore School of Indian Languages and Cultural Studies
- Department of Bengali
- Department of Hindi
- Department of Manipuri
- Department of Sanskrit
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Assamese
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan School of Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Shushrutu School of Medical and Paramedical Sciences
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay School of English and Foreign Language Studies
- Department of English
- Department of Arabic
- Department of French
Swami Vivekananda School of Library Sciences
- Department of Library & Information Science
Triguna Sen School of Technology
- Department of Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering [5] (Formerly Department of Information Technology)
Assam University Students Union
Current office holder:
- Amarjyoti Khound, President
- Sourav Chakraborty, Vice President
- Nowid Kausar Tipu, General Secretary
- Manash Jyoti Bharali, Asst. General Secretary
- Mohasweta Chakraborty, Asst. General Secretary (Female)
- Niloy Bhattacharjee, Cultural Secretary
- Sumit Singha, Sports Secretary
- Binit Pathak, Magazine Secretary
Academic collaboration
- Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
- Nihon University, Japan
- University of Montreal, Canada
- Jiao Tong University, China
- Nantes University, France
- University of Kobe, Japan
- Dhaka University, Bangladesh
- Chittagong University, Bangladesh
- Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
- Jagannath University, Bangladesh
- Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
Affiliated colleges
All the colleges in the 5 districts of South Assam, viz, Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi, North Cachar Hills or Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong district fall within university's jurisdiction. Till the year 2013 there are 50 colleges which include Degree colleges, a Medical college, a few Law colleges and Teachers' Training colleges. This is a list of colleges affiliated with Assam University.[6][7]
- Cachar College, Silchar
- Diphu Government College, Diphu
- Gurucharan College, Silchar
- Radhamadhab College, Silchar
- Silchar Medical College and Hospital
- Women's College, Silchar
References
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External links
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- Articles using infobox university
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- Articles containing Bengali-language text
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Universities and colleges in Assam
- Educational institutions established in 1994
- Central universities in India
- Silchar
- Assam University
- 1994 establishments in India
