Gujarat University, Established in 1949 under the Gujarat University Act, the Gujarat University is largest and oldest university of the Gujarat state.

The Gujarat University was conceived in the nineteen twenties in the minds of public-spirited and learned men like Gandhiji, Sardar Patel, Acharya Anandshankar B. Dhruva, Dada Saheb Mavlankar, Kasturbhai Lalbhai and many others. However, the University could come into existence only after the achievement of independence.In 1949, the University was incorporated under the Gujarat University Act of the State Government 'as a teaching and affiliating University.' This was done as a measure of decentralisation and reorganization of University education in the then Province of Bombay.

During the course of its life of more than five decades, the University has seen the establishment of seven more Universities which were carved out of the jurisdiction of the Gujarat University, viz., Sardar Patel University, Saurashtra University, Bhavnagar University, South Gujarat University, Gujarat Ayurveda University, Gujarat Agricultural University and North Gujarat University. Even then, the Gujarat University is the largest university in the state catering to the needs of higher education of more than two lakh students scattered over 235 colleges, 15 recognised institutions and 24 approved institutions. There are 34 Post-Graduate University departments and 221 P.G. Centres.

Gujarat University is an affiliating University at the under-graduate level, while it is a teaching one at the post-graduate level. Indeed, the responsibility for post-graduate instruction has been statutorily given to the University, and accordingly it has evolved a plan of co-ordinated instruction under the direct control and supervision of the University so as to ensure efficient and diversified instruction. An important feature of this University is the system of external examinations in the Faculties of Arts and Commerce, both and under-graduate and post-graduate levels. The external examinations were introduced with a view to enabling working students and the others who could not afford the high cost of university education to realize their dream.

Gujarat University has developed phenomenally in the last 67 years to be recognized as a premier University in the country today. It provides education in one of the widest range of disciplines to about two lakh students.

VISION

To be a Center of Excellence

Providing Value Based Quality Education

Efficiency With Financial Sustainability

Leading to Socio – economic Welfare of the Society through Enrichment of Human Capital

MISSION

Empowering Student through Modernized Syllabi

Innovation in Teaching

Promotion Of Research, Consultancy and Extension for the Benefit of the Society

Quality Improvement to Enhance Global Competitivenes

OBJECTIVES

To provide instruction including correspondence courses, teaching and training in such branches of learning and courses of study as it may think fit, to make provision for research, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge, and to conduct special undergraduate courses for talented students;

To make such provision as would enable affiliated colleges, recognized institutions and approved institution to undertake specialization of studies;

To establish, maintain, take over by agreement and manage colleges, departments, centers and institutes of research or specialized studies;

To organize common laboratories, libraries, museums and other equipment for teaching and research;

To establish within the University area or outside that area such field stations, specialized laboratories and other units for research and instructions as are necessary for the furtherance of its objects;

To create such teaching, administrative and such other posts as the University may deem necessary from time to time and to make appointments thereto;

To institute professorships, readerships, lectureships and other posts of teachers required by the University;

To appoint or recognize persons as professors, readers, or lecturers, or otherwise as teachers of the University;

To guide teaching and research work in colleges, University Departments, University centers and recognized institutions;

To lay down the course of instruction for the various examinations;

To institute degrees, diplomas and other academic titles and distinctions;

To hold examinations or tests and confer degrees and diplomas on, and gant certificates to, persons who-

To confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions in the manner laid down by Statutes;

To grant such diplomas to, and to provide such lectures, instruction and training to, persons who are not enrolled students of the University, as may be determined by the Statues, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules;

To withdraw or cancel any degree, diploma or certificate conferred or granted by University in the manner prescribed by Statues;

To associate or admit educational institutions with or to the privileges of the University by way of affiliation, recognition or approval;

To withdraw or modify either in whole or in part, affiliation, recognition or approval of educational institutions;

To submit to the State Government proposals for conferment of autonomy on any affiliated colleges or a University college, or a University Department or a recognized institution entitling it to privileges in the in the matters of admission of students, prescribing the courses of study, imparting instruction, teaching and training in the courses of study, the holding and conduct of examinations and the powers to make necessary rules for the purpose;

To recommend to the State Government withdrawal of autonomy conferred on any affiliated college, recognized institution or a University College or Department;

To inspect colleges, recognized institutions and approved institutions and to take measures to ensure that proper standards of instruction, teaching and training are maintained in them and that adequate library and laboratory provisions are made therein;

To lay down and regulate the salary scales, allowances and other conditions of service of the members of the teaching, other academic and non-teaching staff of the University;

To lay down and regulate the salary scales, allowance and other conditions of service of the members of the teaching, other academic and non-teaching staff in the affiliated colleges, and recognized and approved institutions;

To provide for the establishment and recognition of Students' Unions or associations of teachers, academic staff or other employees of the University, affiliated colleges and recognized institutions;

To control and co-ordinate the activities of, and give financial aid to affiliated colleges and recognized and approved institutions; and

To hold and manage trusts and endowments;

To Institute and award fellowships, traveling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals, prizes and other wards;

To make special provision for the spread of University education among classes and communities which are educationally backward;

To lay down courses of study to meet the requirements of rural planning, development and reconstruction and to provide for instruction, teaching and training in such courses;

To make special provision for disseminating knowledge and promoting arts and culture;

To fix, to demand and to receive or recover such fees and other charges as may be prescribed by Ordinances;

To establish, maintain and manage hostels;

To recognize hostels not maintained by the University, to inspect such hostels and to withdraw recognition there from;

To co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control the residence, conduct and discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare;

To take disciplinary action against the students of the University and to impose such punishments upon them as may be deemed fit for breach of discipline or misconduct, within or outside the University, including the use of unfair means at an examination or in relation thereto by themselves or b y any other persons or abetment thereof;

To conduct, co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control post-graduates teaching and research work in the University Departments, affiliated colleges and institutions recognized or approved b y the University;

To co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control the conduct of under graduate teaching and instruction in the affiliated colleges and to undertake the same in University colleges;

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To co-operative with any other universities, authorities or associations or any other public or private bodies in such manner and for such purposes at the University may determine;

To make arrangements for training for competitive examinations for recruitment of services under the Union and State Governments;

To promote the development of the study of Gujarati and Hindi (in Devnagari script) and the use of Gujarati and Hindi (in Devanagari script) or both, as the media of instruction and examination;

To acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property movable and immovable, including trust or endowed property within or outside the University area, for the purposes or objects of the University and to invest any funds representing such property in such manner as the university thinks fit;

To raise public loans and the security of the assets of the University for the purposes of the University, with the previous approval of the State Government;

To enter into any agreement for the incorporation in the University of any other institution and for taking over its rights, properties and liabilities and for any other purpose not repugnant to this Act;